[Exarsere]

Hi Guys,

Even if this problem isn't solved I'll keep on playing as I love this game.

At seemingly random intervals my game crashes. I lose video on my monitor while audio remains for a few seconds and then all I hear is a buzz coming from my speakers. I have no choice but to hard reset my machine. Its happened after 10 minutes, an hour, while moving, while in menus, while meditating. Once I left it alone for 30 mins on the pause menu and came back to find it had crashed. I've been using GPU-Z to monitor GPU temp and it never goes above 60. Acer's onboard processor and mobo sensors don't go over 30. OS installed on SSD C drive and Steam apps on HHD X drive.

Specs are as follows:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
i5-3570K - 3.40Ghz
8 gig ram
Radeon HD 7850 - Sapphire
650 watt PSU

Any suggestions for fixes would be appreciated...

Exarsere

[Guy N'wah]

A hard crash indicates hardware instability. This game will detect hardware problems even more efficiently than many known torture tests. You say a 650 watt PSU: whose 650 watt PSU? Is anything overclocked?

[Exarsere]

I was afraid of that

The PSU is an OCZ - ZT

[Guy N'wah]

Exarsere said:

I was afraid of that />

The PSU is an OCZ - ZT ›››

OCZ ZT is a good line of PSUs, but when jonnyguru tested it, the unit he tested had heat problems and did a spontaneous shutdown under load. http://www.jonnyguru...Story5&reid=295

Replacing a power supply just to see if it makes a difference would be a lot of work and expense, and if I were you, I would continue to look for cheaper causes first.

[Exarsere]

Since the PSU is exposed to air outside the case when the crash occurred again just now I felt the back of the PSU but it felt perfectly cold. Is this evidence enough to disprove overheating of the PSU?
The term 'hard crash' - does this mean complete loss of power to the machine or just loss of functionality while power remains? Just checking as mine is the latter. I can still do things like open the disk drive...

[Guy N'wah]

OK, I took "hard crash" to mean it goes black screen and power off. That's usually a sign of a power or heat problem.

I think you're describing a situation where it goes black screen (or frozen screen) and cannot return to desktop or launch the Task Manager, so the only way to regain control is the Reset button?

That's more likely a driver problem. Are you running the current AMD drivers (13.1 or 13.2 beta)?

[Exarsere]

Ah, I didn't actually use the term hard crash until you did so we went down the wrong path there!

I am not running that latest version - I see that only came out last month. I'll install it tonight and test...

[Exarsere]

I updated the drivers and it didn't help Running 13.1 now.