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    Max payne 3 with 7970M freezing

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by fabiomeza, Jul 14, 2012.

  1. fabiomeza

    fabiomeza Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a clevo P150EM with 7970M

    Work´s fine in all my games, but on Max payne 3 keeps freezing with the error "MAX PAYNE3 STOP WORKING"

    I already do a lot of tests, And i figure out that if i tur off DirectX 11 and set options to low on Directx 9 the game work´s fine.

    Anyone more have the same problem???

    I am with the 12.7 drivers.
     
    fabiomeza, Jul 14, 2012
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    Yep, it's called cruddy console port. Not much you can do about it, unless for some miraculous reason, Rockstar decides to care about PC Gamers. Also if you are running Mumble, turn off the overlay, that crashes MP3 also.

    There are plenty of threads on Steam Forums alone of people complaining of how terrible the MP3 porting was, with all the issues of crashing to desk and freezing etc.
     
    Zymphad, Jul 14, 2012
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    fabiomeza Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm not runnig mumble. Just the game noting else. So there is noting we can do to fix that problem?
     
    fabiomeza, Jul 14, 2012
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    SStaged Notebook Guru

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    Hello,

    I'm running the latest drivers from Sager with all settings maxed out with vsync on but no MSAA on DX11 mode. As a wild guess, I disabled MSAA. When I had MSAA enabled, (for me I set it 2x and also 4x) it froze while playing. I don't know if disabling MSAA is really the solution here, but I just alt-tab'd out of the game after playing through 2 chapters without a hitch to reply to this thread since I remember reading this when it froze for me. Hopefully I'll keep on playing without any freezes. Earlier today when it did freeze on me a couple times in the beginning, I didn't even get far enough to a save point to at least resume from a last checkpoint. So dealing with the introductory cut scenes multiple times was really testing my patience.

    My GPU clocks are at 950/1350 btw and am playing with fans at full speed (Fn+1 to enable).

    Love the game so far. Looks and runs great.
     
    SStaged, Jul 15, 2012
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    Zero989 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It's the game. I played through the entire game with GTX 680 SLI (desktop). I had multiple crashes, and that was a few patches after release. The game is just full of bugs.
     
    Zero989, Jul 15, 2012
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    I'm on the stock drivers, not 12.7 but I can confirm too that my game crashed with MSAA on at DX11. I turned it off and played for 1.5 hours yesterday with no crashes. If it crashes again I'll report here.
     
    Zacfer, Jul 15, 2012
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    Just crashed with MSAA off, so it's not that. I'd go with drivers then, since I finished this game on an Nvidia desktop GPU without a single problem ever...
     
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    Well, I did crash again too Zacfer :mad:
     
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    I will test with MSAA and DX11 turned it off.

    Later i back and post the results
     
    fabiomeza, Jul 15, 2012
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    You said you're running on the latest Sager drivers. Which version are those?
     
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    SStaged, Jul 15, 2012
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    I Finish the game Yesterday, I dont have any problems anymore.

    Just set resolution to 1280 x 720 59hz the rest of settings is on maximum quality

    dont freeze a single time.
     
    fabiomeza, Jul 16, 2012
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