Crysis: What the heck is this problem?

I was playing Crysis SP (recovery, the hostage rescue in the village) when something weird happened. The audio started to lock up and buzz and the screen started showing the game with a bright yellow or green tint and very slow FPS, like 1-2 a second. Also, some random colored pixelation occurred, which I didn't get a screenie of.

I was able to minimize the game and I could see it eating up over 1.2 gig of memory.

My GPU temp was under 70C this whole time and my CPU's under 50C.

Any ideas as to what happened here? I've never had this game mistreat me, till now...

I'm using Crysis 1.21, DX9 and Driver 175.95.

 

Just went fubar lol, retry and hope it doesnt happen again.

I was gonna guess the gpu over heated because mine get so hot in crysis on my desktop that I have to remove my dust filters to increase air into my case, but you said you already know that it didnt go over 70c.

Crysis does have quite a few bugs in it too so maybe you just triggered one.

 

Dude i googled a little bit, there is no such bug in Crysis, so make sure your card is still working well

 

More info please, I've noticed not quite the same problem, but some drivers seem to mess up how the textures appear, mostly the 177.39-45. Have you overclclocked at all? Do any other games have this kind of problem? Is this while plugged in with the battery in the laptop, or was the battery removed?

 

Yea. This is definitely reminiscent of an overheating problem, but if youre at 70c, you should still be ok. Definitely weird.

 

Happened again - all sorts of weird stuff on the screen, like basic textures, etc. Temp was no higher than 69C in both Rivatuner and HW monitor.

The card is at 600/900/1500 and the machine is plugged in to AC - the battery is pulled out.
The only other thing I've done recently is install Crysis hotfix 1.21.

 

Is it only happening in the hostage scene?

 

Last it happened right after I crossed the river into the village, earlier in that level than before. I can test with another level sometime here. Or maybe I should put the card back at default clocks and see if that fixes it.

It also locked up my PC again. I couldn't even kill Crysis in the task manager. Do video card issues typically lock up the pc??

 

Hmm. I wonder if its that hotfix. Do you have any mods installed?

 

No, I do not have any mods or special configs. It's a clean reinstall since I had some issues getting old mods to go away, CCC for instance. I made sure all Crysis dirs and files were deleted too.

There is maybe one thing of interest, though - I pasted my old saved games back in. I haven't had trouble doing that before, though.

 

Perhaps try to reinstall your video drivers.

 

Maybe. I did a clean reinstall of them after the OC, though.

 

Yea. Im at a loss. I did some google searching for you and ended up with pretty much nothing. I swear it looks like a heat issue, but your temps dont support this.

 

I appreciate you taking the time to look into this. It is indeed a weird issue.

Have you ever heard of a card doing this without hitting high temps?

 

Thats the problem right there. For some reason, crysis doesn't like overclocked graphics cards. At least when it comes to 8800m gtx. Did you turn up the voltage to get those clocks? If so, back the voltage down to stock and turn back the overclocks.

 

Try another game and see if the same issue occurs, if not, then your GPU can be ruled fine and you can turn to crysis as the issue.

 

Thanks for the all the replies and info everyone.

bwhxeon, I re flashed the old bios and I'll see how it works. I had no idea Crysis messes up when the card is overclocked. It seems to work just fine for some people. I wonder why.

 

Just tried Crysis again and so far so good! I'll keep my fingers crossed.

 

weird...while my friend was playing UT3 we went into some water and then the whole screen would show a basic texture of the game. It was like a slide show of the textures....i knew it was the games textures cause i map makes for UT3..he restarted the game and it worked fine after that.

 

Thug, not sure if its the voltage increase or the overclocks that cause problems with crysis, I never retested and at this point, crysis and its box are mostly a stand for the back of my computer . Other games ran fine though, even ati tool ran fine for two hours with no artifacts. I think vicious ran into a similar problem back when he was tweaking his 4850's. Can't recall if he ever fixed the problem, but glad there are no more problems with your card.