Sorry if this is off topic: Need help with Crysis issues.

Ever since I upgraded my laptop a year ago to Windows 7 from Vista, I have experienced issues with Crysis. Whether it be Crysis, Crysis Warhead, or Crysis Wars, the same thing always happens. The game starts up fine, everything works great, runs great. But after about any given time between 5-20 minutes, the game just crashes. Its frustrating me because I really want to get into Crysis Wars, but I cant even play long sessions.

I am especially concerned that this will happen with Crysis 2.

So does anyone know any fixes for this?

 

Does it crash at a specific point? Like when loading a game?

Tell us some more specifics, and we'll happily try to diagnose it for you.

 

Its really not any specific moment. It is quite literally while im playing the game. The game starts up fine, the game loads up servers and maps fine. I go in, I select my team, and I start playing. Sometimes it lasts me 20 minutes, other times it lasts me as low as 5 minutes. The screen goes black, you hear audio, but nothing works. I bring up the task manager and it says "Not Responding" and I have to close it from there.

It is really quite frustrating. Its really just the Crysis games... Call of Duty World at War sometimes gets a couple hitches mid way through a game, but it does not crash. Crysis straight up bails on me. This wasn't an issue back when I had Vista 64bit. Now I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

My laptop is a Sager NP8662 if I recall correctly. I got it around July of 09.

 

Maybe its a gfx card problem. Or a more broad issue would be the RAM.

Do you have an overclock on your gfx cards? Do you know which drivers you installed, and what the temps are when gaming?

 

I do have an overclock, I'll adjust those back to normal and test it out.

Default clocks are a follows:
GPU:550 MHz
Memory: 800 MHz
Shader: 1350 MHz

My current clocks:
GPU: 620 MHz
Memory: 915 MHz
Shader: 1550 MHz

I have the latest nVidia drivers installed. Up to date.

 

Let me know how they run on default.

There are some cases in which you have to readjust the OC's when you change drivers, as different drivers allow different maximum OC's.. (maybe that's only ATi)

But it sounds more like the gfx drivers crashing, as audio works but only the screen goes black. Other than that, I'd say run Memtest overnight to see if any of the modules turn out to be bad.

Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

 

Oh and my temps are very good. I use CPUID and the numbers are never over the top. I can't recall exact numbers but I know that based on what I used to read on here, the numbers my system reaches are not bad.

 

Thanks! I just put them to default and now I will test it out. If it doesn't work out well, I will use that memtest... sure hope its not my RAM or anything.

 

I would rather hope it's the RAM... it is pretty cheap to replace bad RAM,

if there is something else, like the GFX card.. it will cost you an arm and a leg..

Good luck! Let us know how it went!

 

Just got done playing an uninterrupted 1 hour+ session... it was definitely without a doubt the overclock... THANK YOU so much for bringing it to my attention. I had COMPLETELY forgotten that I had overclocked my GPU back when I got this thing. Thanks a TON!

 

No problem.

Glad to know that it was fixed, glad my limited tech skills could be of help!



Just pay this help forward on for others as well!