Far Cry Kills XFX 7800GTX 256MB ?!

[anghellic]

One more thing. I am going to download futurmark to stress my video card out. If it shuts down then I know I have a problem

 

[GOREGRINDER]

do you have the latest bios?
do you have the latest chipset drivers installed?
what gpu driver version are you using?
do you have ALL molex and power connectors plugged into the motherboard?
what are your system temps?
did you go into the vid options in farcry and select "auto-detect" then try to run as such?
do you have your monitor driver installed for the res you are attempting?

 

[orangat]

Does your pc also crash in other games. Its time to do some stress testing with rthdribl to see if the video card is giving problems.

 

[anghellic]

Goregrinder to answer your questions:

I installed the latest bios for my motherboard.
I have the latest chipset drivers.
I have the latest Nvidia 81.98 Forceware drivers installed.
All molex and power connectors are plugged into the motherboard.

My system temps:

Motherboard: 35 C
CPU: 37 C Idle; 47 C Burn
Video card: 57 C while playing Far Cry on Max Settings

When I put the game on Auto detect all the settings are on "Low"
I have all drivers for my monitor installed.

 

[anghellic]

Orangat,

I am in the process of getting another game to try. I am getting Call of Duty 2 - something that will really be hard on the card. As soon as I install and play that I will let you know what happens.

 

[anghellic]

Good news (I think).

I installed Call of Duty 2. Played it for a couple of hours with everything maxed out. The resolution was set to a maximum of 1680 X 1050. It never shut down. The only thing I saw was a slight drop in FPS in a scene where there was a lot of enemies and heavy fire, which is expected.

But my computer never restarted which was a good thing. All my temps are fine.

So this leads me to believe that maybe far cry has a software-based problem perhaps?

 

[imported_booradley]

Take a look at your video driver's release notes. You'd be suprised how many hardware specific cases have bugs (ie: nforce3, amd, and 6800 series bug).

 

[anghellic]

yes booradley....so many problems-so little fixes

 

[TreBliW]

Originally posted by: anghellic
My system Specs
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AMD Athlon X2 4800+....all overclocking disabled.
Corsair twinx2048-3500LL pro memory....stock voltages and speed.
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
PC Power and Cooling 850SSI SLI ready
XFX GeForce 7800GTX Factory O/C 490/1300
Windows XP Professional X64 Version, service pack 1
Zalman CNPS95500 LED CPU Cooler
Thermaltake Tsunami Case

Hello. New member. First post.

Anghellic, I have the same video card as yours and I'm also running an Athlon X2 but a 4400+. My problem with Far Cry wasn't with "rebooting" but rather an intermittent graphical glitch that occurred when I would get off a vehicle. I never used to have this issue when I was playing with V1.0. However, I had to patch it with 1.3 (then 1.33) since I was experiencing some graphical anomalies (like "solid black patches" where shadows/roads would be).

Anyway, I tried a fix I used with GTA: San Andreas (where time speeds up extremely fast whenever my character was indoors):

1) Launch Far Cry
2) While on the Menu Screen, press CTRL+ALT+DEL
3) In Windows Task Manager, select the PROCESSES tab
4) Select "FarCry.exe" then Right-Click on it
5) Select "Set Affinity"
6) You will see that CPU 0 and CPU 1 are both checked. Uncheck CPU 1 so that CPU 0 is the only CPU that will be running "FarCry.exe"
7) Close Windows Task Manager then go back in the game. Hopefully the game will be stable.

Some apps/games might require this type of tinkering if you have a Dual-Core CPU, and this method have fixed my headaches with GTA: San Andreas and Far Cry. Also, there are programs that automate this for you as discussed in this thread:

AMD Dual Core: Win2000/WinXP Launcher

X2 affinity performace gains (a must read)UPDATED!!!

I haven't used either of them yet, as I'm currently researching for ways to write a simple executable (such as for "FarCry.exe") that had an adjustable affinity. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself; let's see if this works for you.

 

[Tig Ol Bitties]

Originally posted by: Regs

However, I think your problem will more likely be caused by an incapability or a software glitch. Like fliguy84 stated, it could be your sound card. It could also be a number of other things causing conflicts. Like fossil x64 files, media drivers that do not support far crys built in video/audio controls, old game saves located outside the games routine uninstall scripts, even a bad sector on a hard drive.

This was mentioned twice and I'm just wondering if you even addressed this issue yet anghellic??? If you have a Creative Audigy Sound Card, Farcry has some issues with Creative's drivers, especially the EAX. Do you even have a sound card??? If you don't then ignore this, your rig doesnt indicate though. If you do, do as fliguy84 indicated near the beginning of the thread and turn EAX off and set the sound card setting to low quality. Farcry used to crash on me too, but i found out it was my sound card's (Audigy2 ZS) EAX that was causing it.

 

[Elusiv1]

anghellic,

Is there any chance that your still running an earlier bios on you A8N SLI Deluxe, bios 1002 for instance?? Turns out that I was having the same problem your having with random reboots and this was due to a bad stick of ram. Also, I read somewhere that some of the early released bios had an overvoltage problem with the memory slots. Since I was using bios 1002 for the longest time, I was confident that bios revision 1002 was responsible for me having to replace 2 512mb sticks of Corsair value ram in a 2 month span, this shouldn't happen especially if everything is set to stock speeds??? I know ****** happens but damn!! This board was a pain in the ass with the earlier bios and I came really close to RMA it but 1014 and up have been pretty sweet for me, if your running an earlier bios by all means flash it.........

 

[Elusiv1]

Ignore my last post, I didn't realize you had an X2 4800+. Pretty obvious you'd have to have bios 1011 or up.


Question?????


Does this EAX problem in FarCry also apply to the X-FI Xtreme soundcard?? Just thought I'd ask since it's been a while since I've last play the game. Thanks

 

[anghellic]

TreBli W,

I'm going to take your advice into account. I'm going to reapply all the latest patches and set the affinity to see if it works. Thanks for the advice

 

[anghellic]

Tig Ol Bitties,

Unfortunately, I don't have a sound card. The motherboard I use has an integrated 8-Channel audio controller. Until I can get stand-alone audio, that's what I'm using.

I thought maybe that would be a problem but I don't have a card so it's definately something else.

Thanks for the advice, though. Much appreciated

 

[anghellic]

Elusiv 1,

it's funny you should mention that because I too, was convinced that it was a BIOS issue. After all the updates and everything - still did it.

 

[Tweakin]

I agree with Zebo, underclock your card and see if the crashes continue. Your card should run FarCry at that res fine...I think you have a bad card.

 

[anghellic]

Tweakin,

if I have a bad card why is it that I can run Call of Duty 2 with everything Maxed out and never crash. I've also tried it with Battlefield 2....again, it never crashed. Why is it ONLY happening with Far Cry?

 

[Tweakin]

My bad...missed a couple of posts in there...carry on