BF3 - Dual 5970's - Crash soon as game loads a map

snedie · 28 Oct 2011 at 18:32

Had BF3 since midnight, not even got a single minute of gameplay in. As soon as a map loads, I select a kit, and take 5 steps (so lets say less than 10 seconds), windows will lock up and do what looks to be the "recovering display driver" crap that windows 7 does...and always fails at.

Running dual 5970's, CCC v11.8: I tried to install 11.9 but got a 0x3B BSOD on windows load so restored a system image. Any ideas?

numatic.nathan · 28 Oct 2011 at 18:35

Problem only on BF3?

PapaLazaru · 28 Oct 2011 at 18:36

Just use one till the crossfire drivers are fixed. You can still play at high / ultra with one.

snedie · 28 Oct 2011 at 18:47

I have crash problems with most games as per anything to do with AMD/ATI. However, BF3 just refuses to play at all.

The card's aren't in crossfire: I went to disable it and turns out it already was, guess it happens when you restore from a system image? I've seen on the forums that the XFIRE drivers are FUBAR right now, which was what made me think to disable it in the first place.

Also, how do you change the graphics configs since EA thought it would be fantistic not to have any kind of menu system but rather a website which is undoubtedly going to fail sometime in the near future, rendering the whole game useless.....

PapaLazaru · 28 Oct 2011 at 18:56

snedie said:
Also, how do you change the graphics configs

Unfortunately you have to go into game and press escape to change them.

snedie · 28 Oct 2011 at 19:37

PapaLazaru said:
Unfortunately you have to go into game and press escape to change them.

Things I have tried:

-Removing Crossfire bridge (to confirm crossfire isn't working)
-Disabling all monitors except primary
-Disabling AI: Set to it's lowest setting anyway
-Running BF3 as administrator

Can now get around 30 seconds in game, but still locks up: I can still talk on skype without issue, but num lock key won't change so windows is locking up. :confused:

panyan · 28 Oct 2011 at 19:48

snedie said:
Running dual 5970's

its FAR too powerful for BF3, the cards are just was overpowered for the game and causing the instability issues, it would be fine with just one 5970 - i suggest you send the other one to me for... safe keeping... and then the game will run a lot smoother

Final8y · 28 Oct 2011 at 19:51

You should be using Preview drivers 11.10 and 11.9-CAP4.

zuludawn · 28 Oct 2011 at 21:21

Got a 5970 and 5870 running in tri without problems 11.9-Cap3. They just to short on vram to run at 2560 x 1440 get 14 fps on auto setting, not much more on any other settings.

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 12:34

panyan said:
its FAR too powerful for BF3, the cards are just was overpowered for the game and causing the instability issues, it would be fine with just one 5970 - i suggest you send the other one to me for... safe keeping... and then the game will run a lot smoother

Just whip me your address and I'll bring it over for you :rolleyes:

I'll give the 11.10 previews a try, as said before the 11.9's wouldn't allow windows to boot up.

Thanks

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 13:39

11.10 preview drivers still fail, exactly the same error: Soon as map loads, whole system freezes.

zuludawn · 29 Oct 2011 at 15:11

Try a very low res like 1024x768 just to see if it loads game at that .

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 16:26

zuludawn said:
Try a very low res like 1024x768 just to see if it loads game at that .

I can't even load the game to try, or not the multiplayer anyway. I'll try to launch single player but I don't see how that would be any differant.

Also an update on thing's I have tried:

-Formatted system, reinstalled windows 7 with all latest drivers for all hardware

Still no luck even with the 11.10 drivers. Maybe the official release set will have some kind of bug fix.

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 16:44

Just loaded the campaign, and luckily EA have actually designed a menu system: not to say that having to launch a game through a website still isn't the most retarded thing I've ever seen.

Found a method to get it running, just disable full screen. Pretty retarded trying to play the game on a window about the size of 1024x768 but it beats nothing at all.

Confused now as to whether this is a driver issue or a game issue: Is it the game crashing the driver or the driver crashing in general?

marc1024 · 29 Oct 2011 at 17:57

give me one of the cards, it may be an issue and ill sort it for you

ill pay for postage.

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 18:25

Had a crash after 10 minutes, game won't even launch now.

EA have 1 hours to fix this or I get MW3

zuludawn · 29 Oct 2011 at 18:40

What psu you using i have nearly the same setup, still 2 cards. It may crash as the second card kicks in and draws more power, or if youre cards are to close may crash as first card overheats, cannot think of anything else, it has to be one of these lol

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 18:50

PSU is a 950Watt corsair, plenty more than I need (Did mining for a solid month earlier this year).

No overheating issues, cards never go over 85c, and I never see them clock down so the VDDC's aren't over heating either. PC Case is the HafX, so airflow is pretty good.

I had the same thoughts about crossfire, but I went as far as taking off the bridge just to make sure it wasn't enabled.

zuludawn · 29 Oct 2011 at 19:03

As a last resort check in the Bios that youre main card is set to default ie in a gigabyte Bios it has 5 settings (pci 16-1, 16-2 etc) (changing these made a differance for me to seeing the Bios setup while machine loads with a Hazro 27inch). May be clutching at straws but you got nothing to lose.

snedie · 29 Oct 2011 at 19:09

zuludawn said:
As a last resort check in the Bios that youre main card is set to default ie in a gigabyte Bios it has 5 settings (pci 16-1, 16-2 etc) (changing these made a differance for me to seeing the Bios setup while machine loads with a Hazro 27inch). May be clutching at straws but you got nothing to lose.

My mainboard uses an Award BIOS, which because I have no VGA slot doesn't even give you an option to select the default card.