Battlefield 3 Doesn't Like my Overclock

[RavenSEAL]

My X6 @ 3.8 is 6-HR IBT Stable....

Not sure what else I could do, EVERY SINGLE OTHER GAME runs like a charm at my current settings.

Battleifled 3 of course, crashes like every hour.

 

[BD231]

If you read the server boards everyone is saying the game crashes constantly since updating, its the updates not your computer.

 

[jason166]

Battlefield 3 may be crashing because of your video card overclock rather than CPU overclock. Try dropping the video card overclock down a bit and see if that has any noticeable effect.

I was experiencing quite a few crashes on my 5800 @ 900/1200 @ 1.25v until I moved it down a few notches. For me the ironic thing was that the game would crash whenever I crashed a helicopter or jet (How's that for negative re-enforcement? :biggrin I can only assume that the crash animation really stresses the GPU.

Regards,
Jason

 

[LoneNinja]

Have you tested it at stock speeds? Does it still crash?

It's probably the game, I play BF3 and I can tell you it's buggy. It crashes with certain ATI drivers, the ones that came out right after BF3 that were optimized for the game actually made it unplayable on my 5770. I still get some random crashes at times, usually only once or twice every few hours, not sure the cause either.

 

[LoneNinja]

Battlefield 3 may be crashing because of your video card overclock rather than CPU overclock. Try dropping the video card overclock down a bit and see if that has any noticeable effect.

I was experiencing quite a few crashes on my 5800 @ 900/1200 @ 1.25v until I moved it down a few notches. For me the ironic thing was that the game would crash whenever I crashed a helicopter or jet (How's that for negative re-enforcement? :biggrin I can only assume that the crash animation really stresses the GPU.

Regards,
Jason

Talk about being encouraged to fly well, more penalty than just needing to respawn. lol

 

[RavenSEAL]

Battlefield 3 may be crashing because of your video card overclock rather than CPU overclock. Try dropping the video card overclock down a bit and see if that has any noticeable effect.

I was experiencing quite a few crashes on my 5800 @ 900/1200 @ 1.25v until I moved it down a few notches. For me the ironic thing was that the game would crash whenever I crashed a helicopter or jet (How's that for negative re-enforcement? :biggrin I can only assume that the crash animation really stresses the GPU.

Regards,
Jason

GPUs seem to be ok, temps in the 50Cs, 70-80% usage. I can try, but from the sound corruption and the continual chrome crashing, I can tell BF3 is doing something to my CPU that it's just not liking.

Have you tested it at stock speeds? Does it still crash?

It's probably the game, I play BF3 and I can tell you it's buggy. It crashes with certain ATI drivers, the ones that came out right after BF3 that were optimized for the game actually made it unplayable on my 5770. I still get some random crashes at times, usually only once or twice every few hours, not sure the cause either.

The game seems to run without crashes at stock speeds, haven't really had elongated sessions.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Game just crashed with stock settings, gonna lower GPU settings now.

 

[skipsneeky2]

My x6 1100t is at 4ghz 1.46 vcore 250 bus 16 multi gtx570 at stock.

Today's patch resolved the last of the crash's for me and connection issues.

I used to find BC2 was picky about ocing as well as drivers.

 

[BrightCandle]

Its likely BF3. But its worth noting that running one program wont stress all of the CPUs instructions so sometimes despite it being stable in one program for hours and hours it'll crash reasonably regularly in another piece of software.

AMD/Intel ship their CPUs after extensive testing, far more than any overclocker will even be able to execute. Their version of stability and acceptable errors are very different to yours. If you have some stability problems backing off the overclock a little might bring it to an acceptable level of stability. 100Mhz can be a bring difference in stability but almost nothing in actual performance.

 

[Idontcare]

My X6 @ 3.8 is 6-HR IBT Stable....

Not sure what else I could do, EVERY SINGLE OTHER GAME runs like a charm at my current settings.

Battleifled 3 of course, crashes like every hour.

IBT doesn't stress test all components in your system. You could have a GPU issue, ram issue, IMC issue, PSU issue...

First thing to do is set everything back to stock - ram, cpu, gpu, uncore, etc - and see if the problem still exists.

 

[Rvenger]

Hmm, BF3 is starting to become a good stress tester for these overclocked systems.

 

[skipsneeky2]

If the Op is still crashing at stock,it could very well be the game.

I had nothing but issues with this game till the last patch...before the patch fine,first patch sh*t,second patch fine...relentless.

I see the Op is using crossfire i was in another thread and someone posted about non stop crashing with dual cards so maybe try with a single card.

 

[LoneNinja]

Speaking of BF3 crashing, Origin just crashed while updating BF3, now I'm stuck reinstalling the entire game.....

If you haven't already, you could try another set of video drivers.

 

[djnsmith7]

Damn, BF2 all over again...not the least bit surprised...

 

[BD231]

My FSB is running at 273mhz which is nuts and I have no issue with BF3 outisde of flaky servers so don't look to the phenom. You can try relaxing your memory timings as Phenoms are pretty sensitive to low latency DDR3 and if your northbridge is overclocked or you're trying to run higher than 1600, cas 10 to 11 might help your cause. You can run some pretty tight timings at 1600 though, and I highly doubt its your cores causing the issue unless they don't have enough voltage or conversely, to much voltage.

Tweak all the simple stuff. The speeds and voltage of the Northbridge, CPU, GPU, gpu fan, memory, memory timings. I like to work AROUND the OC, meaning go for a specific core speed then try and find the right combo of surrounding settings. There's penty you can do to increase your stability if you believe it's your computer.

BF3 (or any game for that matter) crashes unless I set an aggressive fan profile on my video card, small oversights like that can make or break an OC so make sure you've checked and tried *everything*. I definitely wouldn't go setting your computer back to stock over one game though, it's usually just a minor tweak that fixes everything. Search for that instead.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

set everything to stock and see how it does.

 

[skipsneeky2]

My FSB is running at 273mhz which is nuts and I have no issue with BF3 outisde of flaky servers so don't look to the phenom. You can try relaxing your memory timings as Phenoms are pretty sensitive to low latency DDR3 and if your northbridge is overclocked or you're trying to run higher than 1600, cas 10 to 11 might help your cause. You can run some pretty tight timings at 1600 though, and I highly doubt its your cores causing the issue unless they don't have enough voltage or conversely, to much voltage.

Tweak all the simple stuff. The speeds and voltage of the Northbridge, CPU, GPU, gpu fan, memory, memory timings. I like to work AROUND the OC, meaning go for a specific core speed then try and find the right combo of surrounding settings. There's penty you can do to increase your stability if you believe it's your computer.

BF3 (or any game for that matter) crashes unless I set an aggressive fan profile on my video card, small oversights like that can make or break an OC so make sure you've checked and tried *everything*. I definitely wouldn't go setting your computer back to stock over one game though, it's usually just a minor tweak that fixes everything. Search for that instead.

273 is a nice bus speed i am at 250 at 16 multi...first amd iv'e owned or clocked...wonder if my motherboard is capable of that bus speed.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Well Op after some more observation today i will go out and say this game really demands a stable gpu oc....i decided to run my gtx570 to msi oc speeds of 786 core 2100 memory a very popular overclock capable on the .975 stock voltage.

Nope 2 servers back to back about 10 mins in at their peak gpu usage the game twice locked up and crashed the game.

Yesterday i ran stock on the gtx570 without a single lock up of any kind.

Who the hell needs to install furmark when you can run BF3 ultra for 15 mins...any failed oc attemps and its sure to crash.

 

[LoneNinja]

Installed latest update today, I have weird graphical glitches and it crashes my entire computer...ran fine before the update. I'm entirely blaming the game on your problems. lol

 

[skipsneeky2]

Installed latest update today, I have weird graphical glitches and it crashes my entire computer...ran fine before the update. I'm entirely blaming the game on your problems. lol

Not sure if serious

Think if a entire computer is crashing it isn't a game issue,its a possible driver or oc issue.

Edit:last time had a crash due to something else but ocing was with ati software for a t.v tuner card shortly after vista was on the market,but the software gave me all kinds of hell.

 

[LoneNinja]

Computer didn't crash entirely...but battlefield 3 crashed leaving everything horribly graphically distorted and rebooting was the only way I could recover. Never seen it happen before, video card isn't overclocked. BF3 is the only game that's given me problems, and first time I've seen this specific problem. CPU is overclocked but it handles 3ds max renders, folding@home, and passed Prime95 testing, along with my other games.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Computer didn't crash entirely...but battlefield 3 crashed leaving everything horribly graphically distorted and rebooting was the only way I could recover. Never seen it happen before, video card isn't overclocked. BF3 is the only game that's given me problems, and first time I've seen this specific problem. CPU is overclocked but it handles 3ds max renders, folding@home, and passed Prime95 testing, along with my other games.

I have had about every single issue the game has to offer,i have a prime95 stable oc...my video card is at stock,after yesterdays smooth gameplay today i had so many servers drop me it isn't funny.

Little over a hour ago i was rocking in a metro server and again another server issue that drops me mid game...i closed battlelog i got into my car and i went right over to walmart and picked up a copy of BC2.

Gave my old copy away when i started playing BF3 but unless BF3 drops Battlelog or they fix their sh*t i doubt i will play it again...non stop issues from the first patch to now,i almost swear my screenname is blacklisted by Ea to intentionally make sure i have the worst BF3 experience humanly possible.