Hi All. I have been playing BFBC2 for nearly a year now and up until 5 weeks ago I was using a GTX 260. The system in my sig has been in place since Nov 2010. I am well aware this game is glitchy at times, but the only thing I ever had annoy me while using the GTX 260 was the screen would occasionally & randomly go totally blank but the game would continue fine until I moved around to a different spot. Concluded this was a driver issue.
When I got my 6950 (unlocked shaders only, OC to 840/1325 using MSI AB @ stock 1.1v), did a complete driver sweep and installed the Cat 11.1 drivers and played the game flawlessly @ 1920x1200 4xAA/8xAF without issue for a month. Just this past weekend, the game hard locked on me 3x. Put the card back to stock 800/1250 speeds and still locked up ~ 20 mins into playing. I was using a custom fan profile in MSI AB, fyi and card never got hotter than 55c.
Immediately suspected failing RAM, so did a 24 hr memtest + rerun of OCCT but there are no errors so ruled out a hardware or CPU/MB OCing issue. Next I uninstalled/reinstalled the game, same with MSI AB, and did another cleaning and updated to Cat 11.2 drivers....but still same issue.
Googling this problem there are numerous discussions about possibly punkbuster interfering with CCC in some way in this game. However, I believe this issue may be related to MSI AB and CCC not playing nice together. Once I closed MSI afterburner, I played BFBC2 for 4 hrs without an issue! Unfortunately, this means I am limited to CCC Overdrive and manual fan control as opposed to being able to ramp it with temp.
Why would MSI AB suddenly not work with CCC in BFBC2 after a month of working without issue? This makes no sense... anyone else have this issue and what was your solution?
When I got my 6950 (unlocked shaders only, OC to 840/1325 using MSI AB @ stock 1.1v), did a complete driver sweep and installed the Cat 11.1 drivers and played the game flawlessly @ 1920x1200 4xAA/8xAF without issue for a month. Just this past weekend, the game hard locked on me 3x. Put the card back to stock 800/1250 speeds and still locked up ~ 20 mins into playing. I was using a custom fan profile in MSI AB, fyi and card never got hotter than 55c.
Immediately suspected failing RAM, so did a 24 hr memtest + rerun of OCCT but there are no errors so ruled out a hardware or CPU/MB OCing issue. Next I uninstalled/reinstalled the game, same with MSI AB, and did another cleaning and updated to Cat 11.2 drivers....but still same issue.
Googling this problem there are numerous discussions about possibly punkbuster interfering with CCC in some way in this game. However, I believe this issue may be related to MSI AB and CCC not playing nice together. Once I closed MSI afterburner, I played BFBC2 for 4 hrs without an issue! Unfortunately, this means I am limited to CCC Overdrive and manual fan control as opposed to being able to ramp it with temp.
Why would MSI AB suddenly not work with CCC in BFBC2 after a month of working without issue? This makes no sense... anyone else have this issue and what was your solution?
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