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BF3 AND BFBC2 hard freeze after 15-60 minutes of play.

689 views 11 replies 7 participants last post by  The_chemist21 
#1 ·
Ive googled all around and tried all solutions so I thought id come and ask you guys..

Ive tried driver reinstalls. different drivers.. disabling this and that..

The thing is it never used to do it.. nothing in my system hsa changed.. only a reformat..

I thought it was BF3 specific.. but then i played BFBC2 and to my surprise it did the same thing.. As far as i know crysis 3 runs for an extended period of time without a hard freeze

It literally locks up and i cant do anything but hold my pc power button..

Could it be overheating? My gpu runs at 80c.. my CPU pretty much 95 to 100% (about 60c) all the time aswell.. Or could it be a memory leak? Ive tried solutions.. I do get the "performance is low" message sometimes when i play before it crashes.. I havent overclocked my GPU either its all stock. The cpu is at 3ghz from 2.4 though but its been stable for years.

Please help me if you can.. Im beyond annoyed.
 
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#2 ·
Its CPU oc bro.

I am pretty sure. Both games are CPU intensive.

Can you try 2.8 and see what happens? Actually try stock speed first and try the game.

Your CPU can be stable forever, but these kind of things happen.

Frostbyte engine is sensitive about CPU OC.
 
#3 ·
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Originally Posted by iARDAs View Post

Its CPU oc bro.

I am pretty sure. Both games are CPU intensive.

Can you try 2.8 and see what happens? Actually try stock speed first and try the game.

Your CPU can be stable forever, but these kind of things happen.

Frostbyte engine is sensitive about CPU OC.
It ran perfectly at 3ghz before my reformat.
 
#4 ·
Just try it at stock it would not hurt.
 
#5 ·
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Originally Posted by hzac View Post

It ran perfectly at 3ghz before my reformat.
Unfortunately CPU OCs can be funny like that.

I would just give it a go.

When I first pushed my CPU OC to 4.4, everything was working great but BF3 was crashing, I lowered it to 4.2 and it worked like a charm.

Than I set it to 4.4 again and gave more voltage, and problems were solved.
 
#6 ·
If i go back to stock will it even run bf3 properly..? Its 5 years old now.

Im upgrading in a few weeks. I just want to know what is going on.. im a debugger at heart. i need to know why its happening

EDIT: no harm in trying. ill do it in the morning. exhausted from all the different solutions ive tried.
 
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Originally Posted by hzac View Post

If i go back to stock will it even run bf3 properly..? Its 5 years old now.

Im upgrading in a few weeks. I just want to know what is going on.. im a debugger at heart. i need to know why its happening

EDIT: no harm in trying. ill do it in the morning. exhausted from all the different solutions ive tried.
Back when BFBC2 was popular(no BF3) my PC started to act up like your's. After about 15 min of game play the sound would stutter and the entire machine would lock up. turned out to be the mobo.
 
#8 ·
I remember i had the same problem with my old Phenom II 720 processor, for the longest time it ran absolutely stable, Prime 95 stable, all that jazz. However whenever it came to playing Battlefield, it would always lock up after playing for a while. I backed down on my OC and never had any problems after that.
 
#9 ·
So i put it back to stock 2.4ghz (disabled any overclocking whatso ever. stock bios etc)

and it still freezes after 30 minutes or so.. i have a hint its a ram memory leak but i dont know how to fix it. im so pissed off.. and annoyed. its 1am

i seriously have no idea why its doing it to me
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#10 ·
Are you on Realtek audio drivers? I dont know much about Gigabyte mobos, but ASUS ones come with a Realtek sound card, and its known to have issues with BFBC2.

Try disabling the audio via BIOS, you'd be surprised how many people solved their problems with this little step.

If the freeze disappears, you could consider a sound card or a USB-sound-card-thing whatever they are called.

Maybe with the reformat you installed a different audio driver than you had before? Just guessing.
 
#11 ·
Ive thought about that. But my micro board doesn't have room fora sound card even though I own one. Even though that makes total sense because when I moved out I had to trade my sound card for a wireless nextwork card. Apprently my mobo has VIA audo codec? Does that ring a bell with anyone?
 
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