Ok. I bought Crysis 2 pretty much at launch. It worked fine for about a week and then every single time I opened it, it would crash the game and my computer at the Nvidia logo every time. I scoured the forums at the time to no avail. Nobody was having the problem I was having on either this board or the EA board. Screw it, I stopped playing it.

I formatted my HDD about 2ish weeks ago and was like "what the hell I'll give it a shot." I downloaded and reinstalled the game and BEHOLD it works. I'm in chapter 14 I believe. I just entered the big spire tube thing and it cuts to a cinematic of Prophet and BAM! Same. ****. Problem. Completely crashes my computer; I can not alt/tab or anything I have to reset my computer.

So at this point I give google another whirl and see what comes up. Turns out a guy is having the same problem I am having and he fixes it by turning the graphics settings down (he's running it on the dx11 patch ultra everything). I'm not. But I try it anyway, and no luck (surprise!)

So I guess my question is, why does nothing that Crytek makes work on my computer (Crysis 1 has the same problems)? Also I downloaded from both Steam and EA/Origin and neither work. I'm currently using the EA version.

Intel i-7 2.8ghz quad core
6 gigs RAM
Radeon 6950
windows 7 home premium 64-bit

My vid drivers are up to date. I have not installed the dx11 pack or the high resolution pack.
HALP!

How are those things problems? Good post though, very constructive.

Power supply could be a problem. What sort is it? Your video card is completely fine and from the clock of your cpu I say you have an.... i7 860? If so I had one too previously with a 5750 and it worked fine for me so no problems there.

I have a 650W PSU. It crossed my mind that it might be a power supply problem. That doesn't make much sense to me though that a cinematic 10 hours into the game breaks it all of a sudden. I've never encountered a problem like this before with any other game. I can run every other game I own just fine at comparable graphics settings.

Well I have a 650 watt psu aswell and I've never had your issue. Must be something else then.

Check to see if your ram timings are set correctly in bios.

Check to see if your ram timings are set correctly in bios.

yep, i bought a computer from medion which had a bad mainboard with only 2 single channel ram slots. bios was mad so that you couldnt set clocks. socket 775 for intel core 2 -series. one 2gb-ddr2 667mhz was installed and after a while i bought two 2gb-ddr2 800mhz from ocz. first try i installed both. after playing just like 10mins crysis 1 my pc freeze. tried out using both alone. no problem. tried out both one with the older 667mhz ram no problem. but both using everytime the same. after trying falshing bios (never did before) i finnsihed this board but i didnt care i was thinking about buying new boar and bought one from evga 780i nvidia chipset and no problems. any ways i have now:
intel core-i7 2600k (1155/sandybridge)
4x2gb corsair vengence DDR3-1600mhz
good msi board something with rev.3 (cant remember exact details:D)
since 2-3weeks gainward gtx570 phantom

did you create your sys yourself or did u buy it ready?
you only tell problems with crysis2, dont u have problems with other games/programs?

the only thing i can imagine (im not a expert:D) is your psu or board is bad or you clocked your rams wrong.
i dont know ati cards but i think you can also set for each game the quality like nvidia, maybe there you made something wrong? since when do u have your sys, if you created yourself check cpu-cooling, i had one time not installed full and my pc reseted everytime lol:D tell just abaout your sys and check if this issue only with crysis 2.
its interesting waht ppl have for problems:D the onliest problem i have with crysis 2 is very less times black screen and no clear picture but very less times. and v-snyc on hd.

You could try giving your graphics card more volts. This solved problems for a lot of people.

I made this computer myself like 1.5 years ago. This is my first build. How do I check to see if the RAM timings are correct? Or up the voltage on the graphics card for that matter? I literally have no other problem with any other games or programs so I don't want to eff with something just to fix this one game. I remember setting something in BIOS for RAM when I built it but that was a year or so ago.