Excuse my French but I have to release steam ... : Crysis

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:50 am

I apologize for the following but I am really really angry!

Crysis 2 nothing but a big "F*** U" to the PC community.
Even @ 1.9 it's far from being a stable and reliable program and I'm quite frankly sick of having purchased a game that I am now Beta-testing.
I have never been able to play it longer than an hour because it crashes randomly (dx 9 or dx11) on my system (these crashes can only be fixed by a complete power reset).
Trust me I tried everything to fix it... everything you can read online and more!
There is no fun if you rush from checkpioint to checkpoint because you're afraid it'll crash any minute now. There is no fun in loosing all your stats and unlocks at random times without being able to recover them and not getting any answer from a support page.
I pretty much disassembled my entire machine and tested almost every part of it individually without any errors on my end... All programs I own run smoothly and I had by now 3 crashes of bad company 2 which I played for about 800 hours online. Metro 2033 runs very well and never crashed on me. I'm just tired of this sh***.
The terrible thing is that I like the game itself and most about it. Not beeing able to play and spending money for testing a product that is far from finished... man... Just the minute where I started to think 'better' of EA. But Crysis 2 demonstrates once again: 'Give us you money and F*** off! Sincerely EA coorporation'.
Kind of makes you wonder whether the names and people in the quality assurance department aren't all just made up. I honestly doubt that EA has such a department.

Please make this game playable for me! Please, please, please!
I doubt that Crytek however was fond of releasing the PC version so early on. Programmers are usually people who know when they deliver something that works.

My system* **:
Win7 pro 64bit
Intel q6600 @ 2.4 ghz
6gb Ram
Pny Gtx460 Oc 1024mb xrl8
Asus p5q-em mainboard
550w power supply

*All temperatures where never anywhere near a point where heat would be problematic!
**Nothing has ever been manipulated since I am a casual gamer who loves warranties on his parts.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:36 am

Welcome to the forums and hey, don't worry you've come to the right place.

From what you've said it could be one of two things, RAM or Power Supply, try using memtest 86+ and run that for a few hours if you can. What's the manufacturer of you're power supply, if it's a generic one have a look at buying one from Antec, Coolermaster or Seasonic that's at least 650w.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:24 pm

Well I did a memtest last night. the one implemented in windows and it showed no abnormalities or errors.
The power supply rasurbo gaming and power x with a 550watt output and for the System I am running with my card comsuming 170 watts tops should suffice don't you think? Plus if it was the power supply the machine would turn itself off. Instead it keeps running and a static square and colour thing remains on my sreen due to an aparent driver failure.

Thanks though... It feels good to finally get some help. :-)

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» Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:36 am

You overclocked your 460? Open up MSI Afterburner while your playing and monitor your GPU temperatures. Either it's crashing because it's heating up too much, or because it's not being fed enough voltage and doesn't have enough to overhead to achieve the overclock.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:18 am

Give us your money and F*** off! Sincerely EA corporation.

That has always been EA's slogan.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:48 pm

no overclocks. posted that in the very first entry.
the Pny card has it's own manufacturer Oc that I will not mess with.

Card specs as follows:

GTX 460 OVERCLOCKED 1024MB PCIe Xrl8

Core Clock: 765 MHz vs. 675 MHz standard
Processor Cores: 336
Processor Clock: 1530 MHz vs. 1350 MHz standard
Texture Fill Rate: 42.84 Billion/sec. vs. 37.8 Billion/sec. standard
Memory Amount: 1024MB GDDR5
Memory Data Rate, effective: 3700 MHz vs. 3600 MHz standard
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth: 118.4 GB/sec. vs. 115.2 GB/sec standard
On-board Outputs: DVI-I, DVI-I, and Mini HDMI
Additional Outputs Supported: VGA
Bus Type: PCI Express? 2.0

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:59 am

Yeah, I was referring to that. What's the voltage at on your card? What your temps when you play.

Both of those aforementioned things require reboots.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:04 am

Never crashes for me so maybe it's not the game, however...

What driver set are you using? You could also try dialling back the factory OC just to see if that makes a difference - manufacturer's sometimes OC cards but don't balance voltages properly.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:44 pm

I'm sorry but I'd never change any settings on a graphics card. Neither for over- nor (in this case) 'under'clocking. The manufacturer would just say I tampered with it and thus no warranty (their return policy is actually quite good)... nothing I'd go for. I'll see to it that I can post whatever GPUZ hast to say... if that would help. Temeratures of the GPU never went over 72 degrees on 1680X1050 with extreme details and dx11 plus High res textures... it actually gave me a quite nice framerate as well.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:07 am

There's no way the manufacturer would be able to tell that you'd underclocked the card. I use Nvidia Performance through the driver, I clock my 460 to 830/1950 and still don't have any issues with crashing. Truth is it could be any one of a million things causing the issue but it's more likely something about your system that is the cause.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:14 pm

I'm sorry but I'd never change any settings on a graphics card. Neither for over- nor (in this case) 'under'clocking. The manufacturer would just say I tampered with it and thus no warranty (their return policy is actually quite good)... nothing I'd go for. I'll see to it that I can post whatever GPUZ hast to say... if that would help. Temeratures of the GPU never went over 72 degrees on 1680X1050 with extreme details and dx11 plus High res textures... it actually gave me a quite nice framerate as well.

Over and Underclocking can be done using software as others have mentioned, it might be worth trying it just to see if that's the problem.

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:01 am

http://www.malwarebytes.org

» Sat Jul 09, 2011 7:03 am

Thanks for helping me out you guys. Very much appreciated.

1. Fun thing about the RAM. I did exchange parts of it today but haven't tested yet.
2. Drive is 275.33. eventually going o try an older one.
3. Getting the MSI afterburner asap. Please help me to figure out what to look for,k? I've always been a chicken wehn it came to overclocking.
4. Trying that malware program but don't really see the point (I'm desparate so I'll try).
5. Crysis 2 is the only program to ever make such problems on my system. Only one game ever depicted the same form of crash [only one time, though]: Mass Effect 2 (my specs should me more than twice the minimum for that game I think).
6. To give you an idea of my problem I added a picture of it. HP (for some reason I don't understand) contacted me via windows solutions and told me that aparently my graphics driver ceased to function (so the roll back seems to make more and more sense).

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Thank you for all the support. I owe you many beers but don't take that as legally binding. ^^

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