BF3 Crashing after 10 min

[Matt_B]

BF3 has been crashing on me about 10 minutes in or so every time. Here are my system specs:


Rampage 4 extreme

Intel i7 3930k

Intel thermal solution RTS 2011 Liquid Cooler

Corsair Dominator GT 12 gb

LG Bluray burner

Intel SSD 520 series 120 gb

Dual Asus GTX 570 SLI'd

RaidMax 850 AE Power supply

Antec 1200 case

In game everything plays perfectly smooth, all graphics and sound are perfect then game crashes 10 min or so in every time. Screen goes black for a few moments then the monitor goes off like it lost the signal forcing me to manual shut down. After doing some googling it seems it's a common problem, most people with similar system specs and almost always have SLI going as I do. Everything is up to date for vid cards and MOBO. Any idea what is going on or possible fixes?

[lightning363]

try to turn off the full screen mode.

[Matt_B]

It was looking hopeful. Installed google chrome yesterday and played two long rounds and no crash. Went to play today and crashed quicker than it ever has yet at about 60 seconds or so. And it crashed in the same fashion, black screen to dead screen.

[Zka17]

Hey Matt B.,

Do you have any error codes for us? Q-LEDs, Q-code, Event Viewer?

Just an idea... I'm not so big fan of the RaidMax PSUs... bad experiences - so whenever I see them, I suspect them... Have you had a chance to try an other one?

[Matt_B]

Zka17 wrote:
Hey Matt B.,

Do you have any error codes for us? Q-LEDs, Q-code, Event Viewer?

Just an idea... I'm not so big fan of the RaidMax PSUs... bad experiences - so whenever I see them, I suspect them... Have you had a chance to try an other one?

No error codes at all, LED's just stay on AA. I have not had the chance to try a different PSU, I'd have to buy another one to try it, I really cant see how it would be the PSU though.

[Zka17]

Matt B wrote:
I really cant see how it would be the PSU though.

Well, it was just an idea... as I said, I had bad experience with Raidmax...

In your case, that PSU is pretty close to the minimum you need for your system... If you start pushing the boundaries, it may happen very easily that the PSU won't hold on... - again, it's just an idea, which would worth try...

BTW, and absolutely nothing in the Event Viewer either?

[Matt_B]

Zka17 wrote:
Well, it was just an idea... as I said, I had bad experience with Raidmax...

In your case, that PSU is pretty close to the minimum you need for your system... If you start pushing the boundaries, it may happen very easily that the PSU won't hold on... - again, it's just an idea, which would worth try...

BTW, and absolutely nothing in the Event Viewer either?

I would love to try another PSU, just can't at the moment. All I have left to do now is reinstall windows and start from scratch.

[DaemonCantor]

MattB, Personally I don't think it has anything to do with your PSU or your Hardware, because BF3 is a Console Port in the first place, yea Better than Most so there are Compatibility Issues as a Given...I'd try turning SLI Off First with the Updated Drivers and give that a go if that fails you could Back Date the Drivers but like you stated it's not so good with BF3 but just to try them with SLI- Off to see if this happens again.

I personally think it's an Nvidia Driver Issue because I recently went through it with the ATI Drivers...I had to back my Driver Package to before the 7xxx because it was doing the same things in game plus when I was in Photoshop it would BSOD me...For some reason the people who make these drivers are putting out half working ones and expecting Us the ones who paid all the Money for good working Cards and DRIVERS to Debug them for them instead of them doing their Job.

[Matt_B]

DaemonCantor wrote:
MattB, Personally I don't think it has anything to do with your PSU or your Hardware, because BF3 is a Console Port in the first place, yea Better than Most so there are Compatibility Issues as a Given...I'd try turning SLI Off First with the Updated Drivers and give that a go if that fails you could Back Date the Drivers but like you stated it's not so good with BF3 but just to try them with SLI- Off to see if this happens again.

I personally think it's an Nvidia Driver Issue because I recently went through it with the ATI Drivers...I had to back my Driver Package to before the 7xxx because it was doing the same things in game plus when I was in Photoshop it would BSOD me...For some reason the people who make these drivers are putting out half working ones and expecting Us the ones who paid all the Money for good working Cards and DRIVERS to Debug them for them instead of them doing their Job.

I agree in thinking it's a driver problem, whatever it's doing seems like it's killing the connection to the monitor or something the way the screen goes dead. It's very strange in how happens at different times and sometimes not at all. I really hope nvidia is working on something here to get this problem resolved, I know others are having the same problems. It's just getting frustrating at this point. 😞

[Zka17]

Sometimes reinstalling Windows may help... Doing it on a SSD, you may want to check this (if you didn't see it yet): http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

[Silver_Wolf]

I have seen issues like this previously with other games check your drivers and possibly roll back to a version the guys are suggesting here if you haven't already. Also check the temp of your cards an overheating card can cause this issue CPUID HWMonitor is a freeware tool that allows you to do this.