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Bad Company 2 crashing computer within minutes of playing.

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cdn88

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I have had 80 hours played on BC2 without a single issue and now it's crashing consistently.

I have a 5850 xfx with a 2.8 tri core heka and it will run crysis on ultra for prolonged periods of time.

When it happens I get a weird buzzing noise and a screen filled with artifacts followed by a blue screen that says there was a hardware failure.

I built this PC a few months ago, it was my first self-built pc, and I thought it all went smoothly.

Anyone know what's going on? I greatly appreciate any help!
 
Sounds like your video card is crapping out, artifacts without overclocking is usually video related. Get it replaced immediately.
 
it's funny because the same thing was happening to me, found it was ATI's 10.6 driver so i reverted back to 10.5 and it was fine for a days worth of gaming and just last night it crashed.. i'm hoping it's not hardware related.. (failing hardware)
 
BD231 said:
Sounds like your video card is crapping out, artifacts without overclocking is usually video related. Get it replaced immediately.
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I was thinking this but would it not happen in other games if it was the video card?

edit: and i may try reverting my drivers to an older version tomorrow.
 
"Guessing" whats going on would not bring you anywhere. 20 people replying what COULD be wrong neither.

You have to TEST your hardware and find the problem.

One simple way is to get

OCCT <--- (www.ocbase.com i think) and let it run an hour or so, testing the CPU whether it craps out or not. Then another run test for your GPU/graphics card.

There are other programs which are helpful, eg. Furmark is another GPU test program, memtest, Prime usw.

This is one is good for testing your PC memory under windows:

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

ONLY with strategic testing of each of your components you will find out whats wrong - not by asking someone what they think could be wrong 🙂

If you checked your hardware, say one hour OCCT CPU, one hour OCCT GPU, memtest etc...we could almost certainly assume your PC hardware is ok and its likely some software issue or driver causing the problem.

THEN you could try with removing and reinstalling drivers, disable any non crucial software (and or hardware device) which start with windows etc...and then slowly re-enable each and see whether the problem only appears when a certain device/software is enabled.

Edit: K, if you ASK me to guess..i THINK (<-- note) its a overheating problem, also since you said its your first built. You need to monitor your temps and report. (In addition to what i said before)
 
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The artifacts are what would worry me. Driver issue's don't generally cause artifacts and it's clear some games stress cards more than others so going game to game might not produce the same results, especially if something on your card is being compromised by heat.

Yes I suppose you could go about the re-installation of drivers, driver versions, game, windows as a last resort, ect. U know, the common sense stuff. Beyond that you probably don't want to hang onto any piece of hardware giving you artifacts after prolonged use.

The only other piece's of hardware that should lend to artifacts on that AM3 setup is your ram or a faulty/heavily overclocked CPU north bridge so I'd run mem-test also as flexy stated.
 
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i've read about problems with the new patch they put. it could just be the game if you're nto experiencing problems in anything else.
 
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