Crysis 3 Crashing to Desktop

[XiandreX]

No other game crashes to desktop except this one. Is this game just that sensitive to overclocks or buggy? I have the latest patch for the game and running 13.11 driver.

Temps are fine low 80s or lower depending on fan speed. I had 1150 core on all other games no issue. I have tried lowering the core to 1100, tried a variety of voltages etc. Anywhere from 5-15 minutes in and boom Ctd.

Edit.. I just ran Furmark for about 8 minutes... it leveled off at 83 degrees for about 5 minutes. No crashes nothing.
So it has to be Crysis 3.

Any suggestions would be appreciated :hmm:

 

[gorcorps]

Well, you threw the idea out there so have you tried running completely vanilla clocks to see if anything changes?

 

[XiandreX]

Well, you threw the idea out there so have you tried running completely vanilla clocks to see if anything changes?

Yeah I know that I might have to. Its just frustrating its the only game that does it. Heck Furmark pushs Gpu harder and it wouldn't crash with that.
Shrugs guess if I want to finish the game I will need to turn overclock off.

 

[Xonim]

I was having problems with crashes in certain spots, most I could just try a slightly different route in the game and the crash wouldn't happen. On the last level, no matter what I did I would crash.

Found a suggestion to bump the voltage slightly on my video card (stock clocks on video card, i5-2500 OC'd to 4.2). Bumped the voltage a bit and never had another crash.

This was after almost 2 hours of trying reloads, driver updates, restarts, different paths in the game, turning down graphics settings, etc. I'm fairly certain it was the issue.

To date, never had that problem on another game, even after returning to stock voltage. Only Crysis 3. Give it a try.

 

[XiandreX]

I was having problems with crashes in certain spots, most I could just try a slightly different route in the game and the crash wouldn't happen. On the last level, no matter what I did I would crash.

Found a suggestion to bump the voltage slightly on my video card (stock clocks on video card, i5-2500 OC'd to 4.2). Bumped the voltage a bit and never had another crash.

This was after almost 2 hours of trying reloads, driver updates, restarts, different paths in the game, turning down graphics settings, etc. I'm fairly certain it was the issue.

To date, never had that problem on another game, even after returning to stock voltage. Only Crysis 3. Give it a try.

Xonim thank you for your response. I am glad its not just me and I am not going crazy. I did some poking around and others have had issues. I was pulling my hair out trying differernt clocks, voltages and higher fan speeds.

The only issue I have is pushing too much voltage into my video card pushes heat up. I will try some other stuff hopefully I can get through the end of the game.

 

[XiandreX]

Well this was a strange fix. I actually reduced the voltage through afterburner to 1106, 1102 Core and slightly higher fan speed profile and took the power limit back down to 0%.
It was solid as a rock until the end of the game.
Also Temps were a lot lower didnt reach 70 degrees.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Well this was a strange fix. I actually reduced the voltage through afterburner to 1106, 1102 Core and slightly higher fan speed profile and took the power limit back down to 0%.
It was solid as a rock until the end of the game.
Also Temps were a lot lower didnt reach 70 degrees.

What's your card's ASIC rating? That voltage seems high: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33822143&postcount=238

 

[XiandreX]

What's your card's ASIC rating? That voltage seems high: http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=33822143&postcount=238

The default voltage was 1125 or 1150 in Afterburner. What voltage should I set?
ASIC quality is 68.8%.

Edit... So I did some digging around on the ASIC to Overclocking correlation and it seems all over the place. People with high ASIS ratings have had crappy overclocks and people with low ASIC ratings have had great overclocking success.

 

[Fire&Blood]

That's because the higher ASIC rating cards tend to achieve stock performance at a lower default voltage hence more room to achieve higher clocks before using higher voltage values. Your default voltage is very high compared to mine. My default core speed is 880 at 1031v, a bump to 1075v was enough to keep me rock solid at 1100 core. Maybe you can turn up power control at a lower voltage to strain the cards less. 1100 as a daily clock is nothing to sneeze at.

 

[XiandreX]

That's because the higher ASIC rating cards tend to achieve stock performance at a lower default voltage hence more room to achieve higher clocks before using higher voltage values. Your default voltage is very high compared to mine. My default core speed is 880 at 1031v, a bump to 1075v was enough to keep me rock solid at 1100 core. Maybe you can turn up power control at a lower voltage to strain the cards less. 1100 as a daily clock is nothing to sneeze at.

My problem is heat at this point. I have the Power dual fan 7950 boost and what I noticed is the fluctuation between stock clock and boost overclocked is jumping up and down a lot when running Furmark.

I know Furmark runs cards far hotter than games. What benchmark is a closer representation of gaming temps?

I am running Furmark with 1025 Voltage, 1102 Core, 1250 (stock memory speed) and fan speed ramped up to 76% with temp around 86 after 10 minutes. How much lower would gaming temps be? Noise is becoming an issue at 76% for this card.

 

[Fire&Blood]

My problem is heat at this point. I have the Power dual fan 7950 boost and what I noticed is the fluctuation between stock clock and boost overclocked is jumping up and down a lot when running Furmark.

I know Furmark runs cards far hotter than games. What benchmark is a closer representation of gaming temps?

I am running Furmark with 1025 Voltage, 1102 Core, 1250 (stock memory speed) and fan speed ramped up to 76% with temp around 86 after 10 minutes. How much lower would gaming temps be? Noise is becoming an issue at 76% for this card.

Don't use furmark, IMO it's just a pointless GPU torture, you will never encounter a real life scenario like it. I played Crysis 3, Metro works too. After playing for half an hour with auto fan profile, monitoring the temps through afterburner, no other game exceeded the temps that Crysis 3 reached, and that's true for me even today. Comparing out temps would be like comparing apples to oranges but if you don't exceed 75C, just forget about temps. If you do, monitor temps in the background but I wouldn't worry until games start to run the GPU in excess of 85C.