***FIXED***Crysis Hanging/Crashes System

[badnewcastle]

So I installed my 8800gt last night and tried to play the Crysis Demo. It hangs about 45 secs to 1.5 mins into game play. I'm using nVidia Drivers 169.02. These are the current release drivers for the GT, I had the 8800 GTS OC'd 320MB running on 169.04 drivers worked fine except way lower frame rates then what I'm getting for the 1.5 mins on the 8800gt...

Any ideas on why it might hang? I have to reboot the system to get out of the game... no ctrl-alt-del, no shiftkey 5x, no alt tab, no ctrl-w...

Thinking I might have to use the beta drivers...? but didn't see them approved for the 8800GT.

 

[D3kTrix]

What kind of crash is it? Does the game just hard lock with a frozen picture on the screen or does your monitor go black and then into power save mode with the sound studdering/looping?

 

[badnewcastle]

Hard lock, picture frozen on screen and sound looping d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d. etc.

 

[jonks]

Originally posted by: badnewcastle
Hard lock, picture frozen on screen and sound looping d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d. etc.

You can try the beta drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/Download...rivers.aspx?lang=en-us

Sounds like a sound card driver problem maybe? I had a looping sound error in another game and updating the soundblaster drivers fixed it.


Anyone know how to reset windows gamma? After I close Crysis and some other games, the enhanced brightness sticks around until after reboot...?

 

[badnewcastle]

Originally posted by: sirjonk

Originally posted by: badnewcastle
Hard lock, picture frozen on screen and sound looping d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d.d. etc.

You can try the beta drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/Download...rivers.aspx?lang=en-us

Sounds like a sound card driver problem maybe? I had a looping sound error in another game and updating the soundblaster drivers fixed it.


Anyone know how to reset windows gamma? After I close Crysis and some other games, the enhanced brightness sticks around until after reboot...?

hmm... that kind of makes since now that you mention it, after I installed the windows driver the center channel sound wasn't working properly. Though I over looked that because I played Bioshock for 30 mins and Counter Strike: Source for over 45 mins and they worked fine.

 

[badnewcastle]

UPDATE...

So here is what I have done so far,

1.) Uninstalled/reinstalled sound drivers, sound drivers are ok, the center/sub channel cable broke and I missed it as half of it is stuck in the sub now. This is going to be a joy to fix this weekend.

2.) Uninstalled nVidia drivers 169.02 and reinstalled them. The correct way.
Then I tried 169.04 (recommended for crysis)
Uninstalled nVidia drivers 169.04 and reinstalled them. The correct way.

3.) physically pulled card out and replaced it.

It still crashes, now I ran 3dMark06, it crashes similar ways to crysis except in both I'm now getting a black screen sometimes, a stalled picture other times and I'm seeing artifacts when it crashes sometimes now. The card is running at 87c with load and down in the 60's with no load.

Getting this error when I run 3dMark06:

IDirect3D9::GetDeviceCaps failed: D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE

So I research that error code and everything is telling me that the device cannoth handle dX9 or one of the devices can't do it. All of the older games are working good. Bioshock is the newest game I have and it plays absolutely awsome though only in dx9, I can't switch it to dx10 to even test it.

 

[badnewcastle]

Any other ideas, EVGA told me to bump up the fan speed to 100%... so I'm going to try that, I don't know if anyone else is having a similar problem.

 

[badnewcastle]

Fixed. Card was overheating... above 90c.

Solution...

Download Rivatuner install it and manually set the fan speeds to go up and down and keep the 8800gt cool accordingly.

 

[techgamer]

I see where you can manually alocate the speed of the fan, but as far as i can tell its a one time choice. Like you can set it for 100% but it will be 100% even when it idles. From your last post it makes it sound like you can adjust the fan speed for idle and load ?

 

[drka0tic]

My 8800GT also crashed while playing Crysis. I confirmed thru Rivatuner that the default fan speed is 25% :-O. Here's a nice tutorial for configuring auto fan control in RivaTuner, along with other goodies:

http://www.vaguesoft.com/users...g/tutorials/rivatuner/

Includes:
Creating Fan Profiles
Creating Launcher Items
Configuring Automatic Fan Control
Creating Overclocking Profiles

 

[Raider1284]

Originally posted by: badnewcastle
Fixed. Card was overheating... above 90c.

Solution...

Download Rivatuner install it and manually set the fan speeds to go up and down and keep the 8800gt cool accordingly.

Interesting that yours crashed at 90C. My 8800gt, before adding the duorb, was hitting 105-110C while playing crysis but ran just fine. I would hear the fan spin up every now and then, but it mostly stayed the default 29%.

 

[imported_Keiichi]

Originally posted by: techgamer
I see where you can manually alocate the speed of the fan, but as far as i can tell its a one time choice. Like you can set it for 100% but it will be 100% even when it idles. From your last post it makes it sound like you can adjust the fan speed for idle and load ?

Follow this guide here: http://www.guru3d.com/article/article/449/