Crysis and windows 7

[callum]

My computer has crashed (BSOD) quite a few times, but I think I've narrowed it down to crysis. It's crashed three times during a play through. Furthermore i cannot seem to enable very high settings either. This all seems rather ridiculous as my system specs are rather good: ati 4870, 4g RAM, intel core i5 750, ASUS p7p55d. Any thoughts on this one?

 

[Bill]

Has it crashed after a long time playing Crisis? If your settings are to high for your PC, you could be overheating..

-Bill

 

[Coolness]

Exactly. Try to cool your cpu down by puting ice under it (if its a laptop) or a fan of some sort.

 

[callum]

It's a big tower I own, plus I have a CPU cooler attatched aswell. I'll download a gpu temperature recorder and see how much the graphics card is overheating.

 

[smarteyeball]

GPU-Z

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Is it a new build? It could be a number of things, like a RAM issue for example.

 

[Coolness]

Yes, but still a overheating issue, because Crysis is a very graphics intense game, and the BOSD's only happen there. If you could also check the heat in you RAM and CPU, it would be helpful.

 

[callum]

I'm pretty sure my RAM isn't in any trouble, Ive run a RAM diagnostic tool and it all checks out well, also I have a water cooler directly attatched to the CPU. Therefore I'm pretty sure the answer lies with the graphics card

 

[Coolness]

Well, have measured the temps?

 

[chev65]

If you don't have the patches 1.2.1 and 1.2 you can forget about that game running right. Overheating GPU is the second biggest reason for that game not running correctly.