Crysis....freezing up....

My computer can run this thing on max settings but after an hour of playing it....it froze. I had to reboot. Played again, about 1/2 into it again, it froze up. Reboot. Then played it this morning and it froze twice within ten minutes. I just bought a new computer and like I said, the specs are there to run this thing on max. It looks and plays beautiful until this freezing issue happens. Looks like others have had this problem too. Any help would be appreciated because I cannot find an answer.

Running it on Vista 64bit. 2x2gb DDR2 ram. GTX 280's in SLI, 780i Asus Mobo, 1000w psu, Quad Extreme qx9650 cpu.

Well overheating is still the first guess. I would try leaving the case open and maybe putting a fan on it. Does your memory have heat spredders or fins? I can just about guarantee you this is a memory problem and if they aren't overheating you may have a bad piece of memory. One way to test this is to simply swap the memory chips into eachothers slots. Hope that makes sense.

Also is your pc sitting out or under a tight desk? My last pc had 11 fans but if you put it inside a desk it overheated because it still couldn't circulate air around it. There is no question with that rig you are making a lot of heat.

If i were you I wouldn't rule out overheating so quickly. I have a similar issue with some games, where the game would run fine, smooth as butter for 5 minutes or so, and then the game would freeze for 30-60 sec, and then get back to where it stopped as if nothing happened. I had this going on for a LONG time, but because it only happened in some games I didn't really care. Well, yesterday I happened to finally leave a temp monitor on in the background while I was playing.... Turns out my card was reaching almost 90C during these freezing times. So I moved a fan I'm using in the room next to the comp and aimed it in such a way as to help the exhausting fan (blowing air through a side opening, towards the back of the case), and the freezing was gone (temps dropped down to low 80's).

I myself don't have 7 fans, but I have a big fan up front (I forgot how many inches are the larger ones...), one on the back, and a big ass zelman on my CPU aiming to exhaust air directly out an opening in the side of the case. The video card itself is a oldish GF7900GT, the CPU's an antique P4 3.0 GHZ .

So, what I'm trying to say is, leave a temp monitor in the background once and check the temps, just to be sure.

I've got a decent sized mid-tower and I run two 8800GTS cards in SLI. I noticed that when I went from 1 card in there, the temps on it hit around 70ish when under full load, but when I put in a second card, they'd both reach into the mid 80s to 90 easy on full load.

I turned the fan speed up on them to about 80% and they would run around low 80s, but I still didn't like that. So I installed a 120mm fan on the back of my case - where I had an extra spot for 120mm fan - and this fan blows out hot air so well (running 80%) that my temps for my two cards don't leave the mid 70s when running full load.

It's not that my case didn't have good space and decent air flow, it's that the hot air wasn't being pushed out fast enough and a lot of it kept cycling around in there, keeping the temps high.

I make sure that my computer tower's fans are not blocked by anything; be it the desk it sits under or the wall my desk is by. I have my tower positioned so the fan that pull in cool air is not pulling in the hot air my other fan is blowing out.

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Huh? What?

If i were you I wouldn't rule out overheating so quickly. I have a similar issue with some games, where the game would run fine, smooth as butter for 5 minutes or so, and then the game would freeze for 30-60 sec, and then get back to where it stopped as if nothing happened. I had this going on for a LONG time, but because it only happened in some games I didn't really care. Well, yesterday I happened to finally leave a temp monitor on in the background while I was playing.... Turns out my card was reaching almost 90C during these freezing times. So I moved a fan I'm using in the room next to the comp and aimed it in such a way as to help the exhausting fan (blowing air through a side opening, towards the back of the case), and the freezing was gone (temps dropped down to low 80's).

I myself don't have 7 fans, but I have a big fan up front (I forgot how many inches are the larger ones...), one on the back, and a big ass zelman on my CPU aiming to exhaust air directly out an opening in the side of the case. The video card itself is a oldish GF7900GT, the CPU's an antique P4 3.0 GHZ .

So, what I'm trying to say is, leave a temp monitor in the background once and check the temps, just to be sure.

MasterYevon

ive got an onboard temp monitor and when I am playing Crysis, the temps never get above 85-90 F. I dont have it under a desk either. It sitting out in the open. I have 2 huge fans that make up part of the seven in my case. I will try a fan an open up the side to see if that works....keep you guys informed and thanks a ton.