Brand new system crashes in Crysis boss battle

[OptimumSlinky]

Title says it all. Brand new system, barely even burned in. Barely anything installed, nothing running in the background. Running Crysis on Medium with 4x AA and a Radeon 5850. Loads, boots, no problems. As the boss battle on the carrier progress, system gets jerkier and jerkier, and eventually just freezes. I do a hard shut down, boots right back up with no problems. No problems up to this point with Crysis (graphical glitches aside) or hardware. Has done this three times now. Is this overheating? Software? Any ideas?

Full specs:
Intel i7 930 (stock 2.8GHz)
GigaByte GA-X58A-UD5
6GB Kingston DDR-1333
PowerColor Radeon 5850 (stock)
750-watt ThermalTake PSU
Win7 Home 64-bit

 

[whitesammy]

do you have the latest drivers?

 

[mbevolution]

the boss is too powerful!

on the serious side, you can download hwmonitor from cpuz's website to see if it's overheating, basically just start checking each hardware

 

[OptimumSlinky]

Check to newest drivers. I really don't think it's overheating anymore. I just played Crysis Warhead for an hour with absolutely no issues minus a few sound glitches. Flawlessly smooth. I think it's something to do with that particular part of the game.

 

[S.K.A]

It isn't a problem with your computer. I have older hardware than you and experienced the same problem.

I figured out it had something to do with the memory consumption. I let the task manager run in the background and was able to switch to it once. I was surprised to see that Ram consumption was of 3.1 GB for Crysis alone.

I even tried playing the final level on low graphics and on 800x600, but no solution.

The only solution that works is to play the game in directx 9 mode. ( it's the only method that worked for me )

 

[Devilpapaya]

Try reinstalling Crysis?

 

[Athadeus]

Yeah it's probably just bad coding that causes a memory leak in specific situations with certain configurations. You probably should just use a game console command to skip to the next area/level, or find a save file online that is just past there. I'd still run the normal stability benchmarks on a new PC though (MemTest86+, LinX/IBT, Prime95, OCCT, Furmark).

 

[Soundmanred]

You probably should just use a game console command to skip to the next area/level, or find a save file online that is just past there.

That's the end of the game.

 

[Powermoloch]

I have the same problem as well. My gaming comp plays smoothly on everygame i played so far. But in crysis, just right at the end. it craps out.

 

[james1701]

Do you have the patches installed?