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  • Maverick2201
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    Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

    Ok... for some reason, BF2 crashes to the desktop rather often on my PC. I read the sticky but since I'm at school right now, I can't post a dxdiag report, however, I know my computer like the back of my hand so if there's any pertinent information other than what I post that you guys might need, lemme know. :cry:

    System Specs:
    DFI NFII Ultra Infinity
    AMD Athlon XP 2800+ @ 200x11 (3200+) @ 1.755v
    1GB Corsair ValueSelect DDR400 (stock timings 2.5-3-3-8T)
    128MB eVGA 6800 "Vanilla" (stock speeds 325/700) @ 77.72 Forceware
    2x 36.7GB Western Digital Raptor 10k SATA (RAID0)
    Antec TrueBlue 480W +12@28A
    WinXP Pro w/ SP2
    6Mbps Cable Internet Connection

    Problem:
    As stated, BF2 crashes all the time to the desktop without warning or error. It does, on rare occasion, reboot the computer COMPLETELY. It happens often when something highly graphical occurs on the screen, i.e - explosions, getting into a TOW viewfinder, getting into a vehicle, massive amounts of troops in my field of view, etc.

    What I've Tried:
    I had my GFX card overclocked, I went back to stock settings but that didn't help. I upped the voltage on my CPU from 1.725v to 1.755v but that didn't help either. I closed ALL background programs I could but that didn't help. I removed heatsink on my GPU and applied Artic Silver 5, temps went down to 50C under full load. They never go any higher than that, but that didn't help. My CPU temps never go higher than 55C so thats fine. My PC is also completely free of viruses/spyware/adware.

    What I Haven't Tried:
    I'm looking for your input on these ideas I have gathered.

    - I haven't tried setting my memory to CL3.
    - I also haven't tried upping the Vdimm on my memory because I've heard Corsair's don't really like voltage.
    - I haven't tried 77.77 ForceWare because I've heard they're the same as 77.72's.
    - I also haven't tried a full format/reinstall of Windows.
    - I have heard of a change in the options to set the audio from "Hardware" to "Software"; I only have integrated sound on my MoBo, so I didn't know if this would affect me.
    - I've heard of people changing AGP in BIOS from 8x to 4x. \

    Some of these things sound a little bogus, but you guys lemme know what you think.

    Any opinions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance.

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    • Maverick2201
      #2
      Re: Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

      somebody? anybody? bump!? c'mon this is a tech support forum...

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        • DU_is_good_4U
          #3
          Re: Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

          It has started to happen to me now I have installed the patch.
          Not too badly, but enough to be annoying.

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            • Gunny Highway
              #4
              Re: Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

              If you have a friend with similar hardware, e.g. a agp gfx card you could try borrowing it and replace it with yours to see if it is failing, and put yours in his to troubleshoot. You can do this with most of the hardware, I would start with Power Supply Unit and gfx card.

              1.7+ seems rather high for vcore voltage, do you have water cooling??

              Have you tried running application like prime95 to check the stability of your system, non-OCed and OCed??

              And for RAM run MEMTEST86+ http://www.memtest.org
              Is the RAM running at 200MHz or is it clocked too? If so try, as you mentioned yourself, setting not so tight timmings.

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                • Maverick2201
                  #5
                  Re: Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

                  Well for one, the power supply and GFX card are less than a year old... I doubt they're going... I hope... I am not on water, I'm running a Thermaltake Volcano 12 with Artic Silver 5... I have run Prime95 but not for extreme periods of time... Maybe 5-6 hrs w/out problems... I'm gonna probably try to cut my AXP back to 2800+... Since BF2 isn't overly CPU intensive, I don't think I'll see more than a frame or 2 difference there. Same with mem timings, if I go from 2.5 to 3, I doubt I'd even lose a frame or 2. MEMTEST86 hasn't been run lately but the RAM is brand spankin' new and it isn't OC'ed... DDR400 RAM running at 200MHz FSB

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                    • Maverick2201
                      #6
                      Re: Yet Another "Crashes to Desktop" Thread

                      UPDATE: I did some research this afternoon and dug this up... this is EXACTLY what my system does EVERY TIME... Looks like the game simply minimized to the taskbar, then after about 2 seconds, the game terminates from the taskbar. Someone take a look at this thread for me and lemme know if you think it's crazy or possible?

                      Parked Domain name on Hostinger DNS system
                      http://www.bfnation.net/forums//viewtopic.php?t=21637

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