Game crashes and I have to force close, followed by sound stutter... Help?

Akagi · 14 Jul 2013 at 22:09

Hi guys, so I have been trying to play the new Borderlands 2 DLC and the game keeps crashing to the desktop and the sound begins to stutter and the sound stutter wont go until I re-start the system.

This issue has not arisen before, I have played Borderlands 2 perfectly fine before. I am fairly confident that it isnt hardware/overclock related partially because of this, and partially because I went into the BIOS and lowered the multi on my already stable overclock, just to ensure that everything is 100% so. GPU is on stock clocks, as is RAM.

I have verified the game files and re-started several times during this process... As well as re-installing my graphics drivers...

Any help would be greatly appreciated as to be quite honest, I am starting to lose all faith in and patience for PC gaming.

dt97583 · 14 Jul 2013 at 22:44

GTX 660 drivers up to date? Completely uninstall and reinstall them? Memtest no issues?

Akagi · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:07

davidmt83 said:
GTX 660 drivers up to date? Completely uninstall and reinstall them? Memtest no issues?

Did a fresh driver install originally, haven't run memtest yet, but the issue seems to have gone away after re-starting and applying windows updates. (note that this wasn't the first, second or even third re-start).

I'm happy that it's gone away of course, but a tad confused. Will report back if it happens again I suppose.

Have had nothing but bad luck with my PC's.

I was hoping everything would go flawlessly this time. :rolleyes:

dt97583 · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:12

acme15 said:
the issue seems to have gone away after re-starting and applying windows updates.

Doubt that's fixed it to be honest.

Assuming memtest comes back with nothing it might just be faster to backup your data and do a wipe...

Akagi · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:27

davidmt83 said:
Doubt that's fixed it to be honest.

Assuming memtest comes back with nothing it might just be faster to backup your data and do a wipe...

God damnit not again... I only did a fresh install a few weeks ago and I just finished getting my **** together

dt97583 · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:30

What are your temps like?

Akagi · 14 Jul 2013 at 23:36

davidmt83 said:
What are your temps like?

Temps are all fine. I'll wait and see if it happens again. I just fiddled around with a few things in the NVIDIA control panel and the BIOS and I think I might have sorted it. Will wait and see.

Puppetmaster · 15 Jul 2013 at 08:02

Have you tried setting CPU at stock just incase? Does any other game do it?

Akagi · 15 Jul 2013 at 08:11

Puppetmaster said:
Have you tried setting CPU at stock just incase? Does any other game do it?

Bioshock infinite crashes to the desktop (without the sound stutter) but after a quick google search it seems that its down to an issue with the game itself. And it's happened on three different PC's. So in other words, no. :eek: