Battlefield 3 Freezing/Crashing (High End Build)

[SylEm]

I know there's been tons of these threads, but I've looked all over the forums and can't find any solutions that work. So recently I've noticed that when I'm in the middle of matches I've been getting freezes and I'll get the "Battlefield 3 has stopped working" windows message. I have no idea what the problem is, my friends aren't having these issues and they have almost identical specs to me. Here's what I've got:

Current Build:
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost)
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO LGA 1155 Intel Z68
8GB Patriot Gamer 2 Series 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
EVGA GTX 580 SC 015-P3-1582-AR
128GB Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Corsair 1000watt PSU
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1 "Heatpipe Direct Contact" Long Life Sleeve 120mm
COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Steel ATX Full Tower
22" Samsung LCD Monitor

I originally thought it was something with teamspeak because I was noticing crashes/freezing when I was using teamspeak, however today I was playing for about 2 hours with no headphones in, no teamspeak, and got 2 freezes in a row after playing for about 30 minutes each.

Any ideas or suggestions? Thank you in advance!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Try the 280.26 drivers for you vcard.

 

[zerocool84]

Overclocked at all? Latest drivers?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I'm not trying to argue but sometimes older drivers work better. In my experience with Unreal Tournament III, ever since the 280.26 drivers... UT3 would crash randomly. That would included the 285s & the recent 290 beta drivers since the 280s.

I am overclocked. I don't think it's the overclock. I've tested to re-assure myself a little more on my overclocking via LinX, P95 Large FFTs, & Memtest HCI, but I am not excluding it as possibly the issue. I am almost convinced it's driver related.

Just food for thought

Have a good day

 

[SylEm]

I'll give the driver idea a try. I'm currently using 285.62. No I'm not overclocking anything.

 

[Arsinek]

My friend was getting freezes on his system that had to do with his SSD. There was some setting he changed in bios that fixed it.

 

[imaheadcase]

Freezes don't sound like a driver issue..that just normally crashes the game. 290.53 are latest nvidia drivers, i use them and work awesome in bf3.

 

[Grooveriding]

System instability somewhere. BF3 is a great system stress test. You say you have no overclock though, so puzzling. FWIW I get no crashes but would get them when I was working through getting a stable overclock on my current system.

I could pass prime and still get crashes/hard locks in BF3. Upping some voltage fixed it for me.

This could just be a driver thing though, or as someone mentioned, maybe your SSD.

 

[John P]

Try running MSI Kombustor 2.2 and 3DMark11 to see if your system is stable outside of BF3. There have been lots of issues with BF3 since the latest patch, see here for a few examples: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf...!/bf3/forum/threadview/2832654489518263342/4/

 

[thepaqster]

I had the same issue my friend. I spent weeks looking for a fix, formatted, reinstalled, rolled back drivers, etc etc. if someone mentions something in this thread, I guarantee I've tried it. I've also run pretty much every widely available benchmarking/stress testing piece of software out there for every component of my computer and found no issues worth mentioning. BF3 is quite simply a broken game, and the only solution to the crashing was to hit hat little uninstall button on the origin Menu.
Sorry dude but until dice acknowledges that thousands of players are unable to play their broken game, I see no resolution to this problem on the horizon.

 

[QuantumPion]

The solution is to either underclock your GPU or increase the voltage. My GTX 580 crashes after 1-2 mins unless I increase the voltage or decrease the clock speed by about 10%.

 

[QuantumPion]

I had the same issue my friend. I spent weeks looking for a fix, formatted, reinstalled, rolled back drivers, etc etc. if someone mentions something in this thread, I guarantee I've tried it. I've also run pretty much every widely available benchmarking/stress testing piece of software out there for every component of my computer and found no issues worth mentioning. BF3 is quite simply a broken game, and the only solution to the crashing was to hit hat little uninstall button on the origin Menu.
Sorry dude but until dice acknowledges that thousands of players are unable to play their broken game, I see no resolution to this problem on the horizon.

The problem is not BF3, the problem is flawed gpu manufacturing/bios settings. This is why only some people have issues. BF3 just happens to be the first game which stresses the card enough to show its flaws.