BF4 constantly crashing?

Combat squirrel · 12 Dec 2013 at 15:53

As title, any ideas?

Using 3770k at 4.5ghz
GTX 670 2GB
32gb ram

Prime stable/furmark stable, windows 8.1

Tried chronically underclocking the 670, makes no difference

Combat squirrel · 12 Dec 2013 at 16:16

Crashes about every 15 mins :/ just says BF4 has stopped working, its intel/prime stable! :S lol

Will try lower CPU clock

Combat squirrel · 12 Dec 2013 at 16:21

wndzr said:
Do you really need your components overclocked? If BF4 will run fine with them at stock speeds then just leave them for the sake of having a stable game.

I'm assuming you've got all the usual stuff like the latest drivers, no crazy background tasks etc.

Well yeah, this is OCUK ! lol, also im watercooling a delidded 3770k it gets 68c prime load, i thought it would be fine! lol

Combat squirrel · 12 Dec 2013 at 16:34

Rroff said:
If your getting BSOD, RSOD, hard locks or DX errors then system stability is suspect, if your getting the game crashing back to desktop either dissapearing entirely or with a BF4.exe has stopped responding/working dialog then its probably one of the numerous game bugs thats causing crashing for most people.

Lowered to 4ghz now to see what it does, crashed at 4.3 same volts

eyetrip said:
Ahhh, reminds me of when I had a wonderful 3770K that did 4.9 on 1.28v, and because I wanted to get to 5GHz, I decided to de-lid.... and KILLED IT!

Ahh no!!!! Used a hammer on mine, subtle, and effective :eek:

Combat squirrel · 12 Dec 2013 at 17:27

Weird I just tried High settings and it judders really bad......like not the graphics juddering, like a feedback loop error or something, between judders its high frame rates, ultra runs smooth as butter.......HELPFUL,lol

Combat squirrel · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:09

PapaLazaru said:
Take the CPU back to stock like I said.

Found my big stability problem, my 32GB patriot 1866EL running at........1866 is unstable :mad:

WTF! now at 1600 and its rock solid, harder than a quadratic equation.........gutted I paid for this ram to run at 1866 oddly enough.

I just did 6 hours INTEL burn test at extreme level and its stable at 4.3, running at 4.5 now and still no crashes.

Samsara said:
iv stopped getting crashes but then memory leak zaps my full 8gb and it becomes a slideshow until restart

I think thats more you only have 8gb ram, MAH movie PC has more than that! get yourself another 8gb sir !

Combat squirrel · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:28

Rroff said:
What motherboard are you using?

ASRock z77 Extreme 4

Combat squirrel · 14 Dec 2013 at 02:55

setter said:
Does the ram have an xmp profile? And 32gb at 1866mhz is a pretty hefty load on the cpu memory controller. Have you tried upping sa or io voltages, description of theese depends on the board. Tbh, for games 1600mhz is grand on ib or hw. Games dont show any noticeable benefit with high clocked ram. 8gb of 2400mhz ram here, pointless upgrade for a gaming system tbh.

Yup not stable on the XMP profile (v1.3), thing is iv ran this for nearly a good year at 1866 :eek:

and its been grand 80% of the time, but i just got used to adobe premier hanging and now bf4..............

Its at 1600mhz now and seems a million times more stable, feel an idiot for not lowering it, clocked up the cpu to 4.5ghz and its ran intel extreme for a couple hours now.......i think i may have a great chip on my hands and never known it :eek:

Combat squirrel · 14 Dec 2013 at 11:13

Jono8 said:
Did you ever get any hard locks/freezes /BSOD?

The only hard locks I get is when I boot from cold - it locks on the windows load screen 4-6 times for about 10 mins (I leave it locked until it auto switches off) I assume its a weird bug as when its loaded, its now v stable, I still need to try bf4.

Jono8 said:
Also, I've noticed it seems the game is loads more stable using Firefox as the battlelog browser instead of IE

Interesting, am using google chrome for my browser

Combat squirrel · 14 Dec 2013 at 18:53

Fixed !!! It was my memory unfort, rock stable 4 hours now