New Computer... new problem

2006-09-11 12:38:02

#1

Ratman12: Member; +1|7134|TC Michigan

Ive been using a "decent" computer for the last few years now, and it's always worked well. Never outstanding, but always reliable. Recently, I just shelled out a big chunk of cash for a new, awesome gaming rig, and now Im stuck right in the problem that everyone else has... constant instantaneous crashes. This is regardless of how I install or whether Im using the patch or not. And occasionaly, the game just freezes solid. Ive yet to be able to finish a round. I know lots of people are having problems with 1.4, but part of me wonders if I just dont have some sort of incompatability issues... anyhow, the word "frustrating" doesnt even come close to describing how annoying it is to build a nice machine and have it not even play a game that my crappy one did.

If it matters, my setup is

Intel Core 2 Duo Conroe E6700
ASUS P5N32 SLI-SE motherboard
two 320g sata harddrives in RAID
600 watt power supply
2 gigs of corsair DDR2 Twin2X memory (the kind with the pretty lights on it)
And the big ass Nvidia 7950 ASUS Geforce 7950GX2 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 video card.

Thoughts?

2006-09-11 12:41:04

#2

N.A.T.O: The People’s Champion; +59|6904|A drop house

Do you have the same problem when not playing a game? (surfing the web, typing, watching movies ect...)

2006-09-11 12:42:10

#3

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|7084|Mhz

only with bf2? or u tried stressing it with something else too?

Get some stress testing software and give it a bash coz my moneys on overheating

2006-09-11 12:43:17

#4

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6986|...

I wonder if it is something similar to the x2 issue with amd's ... perhaps intel has a processor driver on thier site.

2006-09-11 12:44:19

#5

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6986|...

TheEternalPessimist wrote:
only with bf2? or u tried stressing it with something else too?

Get some stress testing software and give it a bash coz my moneys on overheating

What he is saying maybe true if it happens for everything ... have u monitored heat?

2006-09-11 13:04:21

#6

Ratman12: Member; +1|7134|TC Michigan

Overheating was one of the things I thought about. It only happens with BF2, not while doing non-gaming activities. I did take the side of the case off, and the card did feel slightly hot... but not sure if theyre hotter than theyre supposed. However, I now see that the card has a temp monitoring system... guess thatd be a great place to start. It seems that without a game running, it's sitting at about 71c... seems kinda warm. Im starting to think that is the problem. Thanks for the quick responses guys.

2006-09-11 13:05:09

#7

l41e: Member; +677|7112

71c?! That's not warm, that's hot!

2006-09-11 13:08:33

#8

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6986|...

Ratman12 wrote:
Overheating was one of the things I thought about. It only happens with BF2, not while doing non-gaming activities. I did take the side of the case off, and the card did feel slightly hot... but not sure if theyre hotter than theyre supposed. However, I now see that the card has a temp monitoring system... guess thatd be a great place to start. It seems that without a game running, it's sitting at about 71c... seems kinda warm. Im starting to think that is the problem. Thanks for the quick responses guys.

I have the same card, as a reference my stuff is an antec sonata case ... nothing special ... 2 drives 1 120mm case fan and 1 120mm in psu, no front case fan, under the card one of the pci card slot covers is vented. Never had a heat problem. If your is even remoted geared for colling should not be an issue for urs either. ... good luck I know that situation is an ass pain. ..

2006-09-11 14:13:45

#9

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|7013|UK

Probably same as the amd prob, game doesnt like dual processor's......... or single processors........ infact bf2 is just anti pc!

2006-09-11 14:16:07

#10

Marlboroman82: Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.; +1,022|7087|Camp XRay

bf2 is not a fan of dual cores. i had a friend of mine who had to turn off one of his cores everytime he played bf2. not sure if this is a isolated think, but i know of several others with this problem as well. maybe check that out.

https://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l250/marlboroman82/Untitled-8.png

2006-09-11 14:23:33

#11

dknessfalls: Member; +9|6908|Corona, California

your problem might lie on having 2 hard drives running on raid, since its all a mirror-image, data transfer might not go well between hard drives...the temp is also a factor, the card itself or any piece of the computer should not exceed 50 c before it starts lagging and giving u problems

2006-09-11 14:33:37

#12

leftoverkiller: Member; +9|6927

71c idle is to warm. had a similar problem when my 7800 was idling about 70c. after about 10 min of bf2 it would warm to about 78-80c. cut holes in my side case and put 2 80mm fans in them and temp droped to 50c idle and about 60-64c after hours of gaming. and no more crashes.

2006-09-11 21:36:26

#13

fearsjohn: Member; +0|6901

have an amd 3800 x2 overclocked never had a problem with mine but i did not install the 1.3 patch put a second 7800 gtx 512 for sli same system and patched to the 1.4 now i can't hardly play the game i think it is the patches that screws everything up

2006-09-14 15:12:57

#14

Ratman12: Member; +1|7134|TC Michigan

Well, I found the problem. Both fans on the GPU were completely not working... nice quality control.

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