I've had this game (I use that loosely) for a few weeks or so now. All I have got to see of it is the opening movie and about 30 seconds walking out the doors from the first room. My screen goes black and all I hear is the audio. Not so bad if I could some how recover without having to do a hard reset.

Over the last week I've had allot of time on my hands (no game to play). I have gone so far as to take out my HD and put in my spare then do a new Win7 install, with nothing but the newest drivers I could find and this game. Guess what it didn't matter one bit. I've installed multiple nVidia drivers and even physically pulled on card in case it was a SLI issue.

EA's tech support actually told me the game wasn't compatible with win7. I emailed him a picture of the back of the box. Haven't heard from him since.

I had high hopes that a patch would come out to solve these video issues people seem to be having, but instead all they seem to be concentrating on is the MP aspects of the game. (No offense to any MP people out there) But that does the rest of us who want a good solid single player game that we paid for to work.

Screen goes black = Graphics Card overheating or Graphics card drivers are outdated.

Haha owned. It could either be your monitor or your gfx cards. If its either those two have fun shelling out more than $60 for a replacement >.<

-fuzz

Cool story bro.

But seriously, this one's on you and your gfx card.

looks like overheating gfx card.
monitor the temperature.

Install MSI afterburner and in the settings go to the monitoring tab, select the gpu temperature and tick show in on screen display (you may need to allow access of osd server through firewall).

Run the game and you should see the temps on screen.

Edit: C2 gets my 580 real warm real fast with the settings I'm using.

Cool story bro.

But seriously, this one's on you and your gfx card.

Shut up fanboy! Crysis two is so ugly it probably bricked his graphics card! /sarcasm

Install MSI afterburner and in the settings go to the monitoring tab, select the gpu temperature and tick show in on screen display (you may need to allow access of osd server through firewall).

Run the game and you should see the temps on screen.

Edit: C2 gets my 580 real warm real fast with the settings I'm using.

Really? My 480s only get to around 60*C @ 60% fan speed. What fan speed you using?

-fuzz

Well the 2 GTS450 are running the latest nVidia driver (thinks its 267.59). As for temps I'm running the fans at 80% and getting between 87-95F. Since the exhaust fan of my system is only seeing 89.4F I have a hard time believing its heat or video card directly. Plus not sure 3 mins in the game is enough to exhaust a video card to the point of thermal shut down (have been wrong before). I am a stickler for heat and have water for most of my components, and I monitor 17 active temp senors in the case. Nothing has hit any of them sounding the alarms.

I really think this comes down to an SLI issue or some driver I'm overlooking. I appreciate your help god knows after 23 years of working on these darn things a second opinion is sometimes just what you need. I've seen the smallest little thing take a system down and it not even be related.

I did see one slight change after the 1.2 patch came out and that was a few minutes in I get the black screen, it recovers for a few minutes then it does it again and locks (I don't always get the two warning ones and they are sporadic not set to any time) But hay its at least a change. I can almost get 10 minutes of shooting fun before I ave to reset.

Well the 2 GTS450 are running the latest nVidia driver (thinks its 267.59). As for temps I'm running the fans at 80% and getting between 87-95F. Since the exhaust fan of my system is only seeing 89.4F I have a hard time believing its heat or video card directly. Plus not sure 3 mins in the game is enough to exhaust a video card to the point of thermal shut down (have been wrong before). I am a stickler for heat and have water for most of my components, and I monitor 17 active temp senors in the case. Nothing has hit any of them sounding the alarms.

I really think this comes down to an SLI issue or some driver I'm overlooking. I appreciate your help god knows after 23 years of working on these darn things a second opinion is sometimes just what you need. I've seen the smallest little thing take a system down and it not even be related.

I did see one slight change after the 1.2 patch came out and that was a few minutes in I get the black screen, it recovers for a few minutes then it does it again and locks (I don't always get the two warning ones and they are sporadic not set to any time) But hay its at least a change. I can almost get 10 minutes of shooting fun before I ave to reset.

Omfg, 95°C is really **** hot. It's definitely overheating issues.

Edit: Misread, it says Fahrenheit.

Edit 2: Get a screenshot of your temps please.

Well the 2 GTS450 are running the latest nVidia driver (thinks its 267.59). As for temps I'm running the fans at 80% and getting between 87-95F. Since the exhaust fan of my system is only seeing 89.4F I have a hard time believing its heat or video card directly. Plus not sure 3 mins in the game is enough to exhaust a video card to the point of thermal shut down (have been wrong before). I am a stickler for heat and have water for most of my components, and I monitor 17 active temp senors in the case. Nothing has hit any of them sounding the alarms.

I really think this comes down to an SLI issue or some driver I'm overlooking. I appreciate your help god knows after 23 years of working on these darn things a second opinion is sometimes just what you need. I've seen the smallest little thing take a system down and it not even be related.

I did see one slight change after the 1.2 patch came out and that was a few minutes in I get the black screen, it recovers for a few minutes then it does it again and locks (I don't always get the two warning ones and they are sporadic not set to any time) But hay its at least a change. I can almost get 10 minutes of shooting fun before I ave to reset.

There is an nVidia driver, SLI, especially for Crysis 2. I think it is 266.58. Good luck

There is an nVidia driver, SLI, especially for Crysis 2. I think it is 266.58. Good luck

The latest drivers are better. Don't tell him to downgrade.

I get the same thing, with a GTX 460 slightly OC'd. I have a hard time it's overheating considering my GPU gets 40c on average idle.

It doesn't happen "instant" with me though, it's completely random.

I'm going to monitor my temps while playing and see if my temps really do shoot up 40-50c.... (which would be enough to cause a shut down).

Your temps are in *F, which means those are normal temps in *C. Change your readings to *C as thats usually the universal scale people use when comparing temps for computer talk (and scientific)

-fuzz

Just my two cents here but what PSU are you running?

I'm jealous!
My GTX 465 is heating over 80 *C on crysis 2 or almost at 80 *C
I'm really jealous about temperatures of your video cards. Did you live in arctica?