crysis warhead blue screen 3/4 of the page

[roid450]

i am currently running crysis warhead on 1600x1200 on all enthusiast except the Shadow quality and Post processing are on gamer. plays constant mid 20s-40 fps

i have just started getting this problem yesterday. randomly, but a few times during game play, theres a blue screen that takes up 3/4 of the lower half, after exciting the game just now i noticed the vid card said 96º C and im sure it was prolly near 100º while it was running the game.

but heres a video to illustrate, watch after i jump out of the jeep.

http://s70.photobucket.com/alb...8-10-1822-47-54-58.flv

u all think heat is the issue here?, maybe a bad vid card already? i have the fan at 60% but ive had the game for 2 weeks and neer had a problem. this is the "superclocked" evga 260 if that matter

i havent noticed my other games doing this but only Crysis makes my card go over 85ºC and i h ave Unreal 3, GRAW2, G of War, Assasins Creed and Rainbow Six V2, all run on 1600x1200 at max settings

 

[Zenoth]

BSOD's in gaming is very often (but of course not limited to) caused by Memory-related issues such as over-heating, which itself is also related to unstable over-clocks, or just over-clocks even if the OC itself is stable (but of course having an OC that creates too much heat will in turn "disable" the natural stability of it and make softwares crash anyway).

It can be caused by other things too, but in my own experiences all of my BSOD's in the past were universally caused by unstable Memory (even without any OC, it was on a few occasions just a problem with the default timings not being compatible with the Motherboard's chipset capabilities).

 

[TheVrolok]

Could be a few things from driver problems, to a bad install, but if that card is at 96C after exiting, it's probably hitting 110 easy during heavy gaming. Bottom line is that's just too hot. It could be a bad card, or a lack of cooling, I don't know, but that sounds way to hot to be right. What are your processor core temps under load like gaming? I imagine that vid card is like a little space heater in there.

<edit> Looks like someone didn't watch the video, it's not a BSOD, it's some sort of artifacting.

 

[roid450]

well ive done quite a few memtest tests of the 5 and 8 test, and a mix of all, left it all day for like 12 hrs testing and everything was good. i manually set timing to 5-5-512 and the CPU also seems to be stable, only ran Prime up to like 12 hrs or so. no problems at all since. i have the newest nvidia drivers from the 15th of Oct, they helped some on crysis since i can run Enthusiast at better frame rates.

i will try and turn the fan up to like 80% and see if it still does it.

i played Assassins Creed for about 35 min and had no problems, but the vid card only got to 79º max on that. Unreal 3 only gets the card about 78º also

 

[roid450]

well its still doing it even tho the card only got to 85 this time. im thinking ill try and remove the nvidia drivers again and use driver sweeper. then reinstall them.

 

[roid450]

ok i ended up moving to the previous drivers from Sep 25 and it all works now. i did lose a little, not too noticeable, performance in crysis but every other game still runs maxed out.

 

[roid450]

fixed. use driver sweeper and cleaned registry. reinstalled newest drivers and all is good.