Odd Crysis 3 Crash

I'm running Crysis 3 on the highest settings (without antialising) on a P150EM with a 680M. I get between between 20-30 FPS consistently, which is good enough for me. My problem is that the game crashes a lot. While I'm playing the screen turns black. Half of the time I need to force quit with the task manager, and the other half Windows says Crysis 3 has stopped working. Does anyone know what the problem could be? I'm running Nvidia driver 314.22, and I don't want to upgrade to the beta driver, as it makes another game unstable.

Any idea what the problem could be?

 

turn the graphics down a bit as it wont make much difference on screen and your fps will go up.

i run it on default which is medium to low as fps dont interest me. as long as the game plays smooth im happy.

what temps are you getting on gpu/cpu and also when was the last time you cleaned the fans and vents out with compressed air?

 

I get that kind of crash in Crysis 3 (black screen, have to Alt+Tab out to get the "stopped working" message) consistently when I overclock my graphics cards. At stock clocks it doesn't occur as far as I can remember. Food for thought..

 

I'm at the stock clock speeds.Do you think it has something to do with the GPU constantly throttling? When my temperatures hit 90, the GPU throttles down a bit and comes back up to speed when the temperature goes down a few degrees. This seems to cycle throughout my game play. I don't notice anything in game though.

 

its supposed to throttle down at 90c+ to protect the hardware.
lower your settings to medium and see if you notice any difference in game. then check your fps which will have gone up and check your temps which will have gone down even though not by much but at least it goes down to safe temps.

the black screen affected a lot of people at first. mostly turned out it was a driver conflict.
next time you update driver try the manual safe mode update with driver cleaner/sweeper/cc cleaner. ive never had a crash in any game except battlefield 3 which also turned out to be a driver problem

 

I get the exact same issue you're talking about. I just did a fresh install with the lastest beta driver. It seems to have decreased the crash frequency, but I still get it. I'm starting to think my thermal paste wasn't put in correctly. Other people say that they only get the problem when they overclock.

 

You shouldn't be hitting 90C with a 680m anyway. Open her up and clean out any dust with compressed air. I'd also repaste if I were in your position. Hope you get it sorted out.

 

I'm suspecting that the thermal paste wasn't done properly. I placed an order for a new tube of IC diamond. As for dust in the fans, I doubt there's much since its only a week old.

 

I see that some people have fixed this crash by overvolting their GPU's. Does anyone know if it is possible to overvolt the 680M, but underclock it at the same time?