Most reliable cat drivers for Crysis? Game freezing on a stock rig with cool temps.

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Ok, i have the following rig:

Windows xp pro 32 bit
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L Intel P43 (latest drivers)
Intel Dual-Core E5200
XFX 4850 XXX edition (9.3 cat)
4 gig of ram (i know i only have a 32 bit OS but i'm planning on upgrading)

The game has the latest patches 1.2.1 and i'm using 9.3 cat drivers. The game, when it works, runs very smoothly but then it freezes with a green screen and i have to reboot.

It freezes at randonm times usually after about 10 minutes - there's no rhyme nor reason. My computer is not overclocked and my temps are very low. My CPU doesn't go above 30 degrees and my gfx doesn't seem to go above 55 degrees - so it's not a heat issue.

I've researched as much as i can and it seems a common problem - but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a common solution. So i'm wondering if there is a set of drivers that are known to work best with the game. Should i roll back to a set of older drivers or try the 9.4 cats that have just been released - but there is no mention of fixes for my problem.

Any help appreciated as the game is amazing when it plays.

Plec
 
I've found the 8.12 the most balanced out of the last few ati driver offerings. I'm not saying it'll sort out your Crysis issue since I dont play Crysis, or hardly, but its worth a try.
 
Thnx for the reply.

I'm not sure it is cat problem anymore as all my other games, that i've tested, work fine - plus up until yesterday 9.3 drivers were the latest and best. I may try 9.4 later tonight but i'm getting tired of the lock ups and rebooting. I've read quite a few threads, now, on different forums and it looks to be a very common theme for those with Crysis problems and as yet i haven't read any hard and fast solutions. It's the same type of lock up every time - green stripes gpong down the screen - and no way of escaping out of it. Odd! I'm just surprised to be getting any problems with a relatively common/modern rig with everything set to standard.

Plec
 
Probably won't make a difference, but try playing Crysis with the GPU fan speed on say 75/100%. I say this because Crysis gave my mildly overclocked 8800GTX a lot of trouble where as in all other games it was fine at much higher clocks.
 
Thnx - is worth a try as it is a simple process to test and the xfx XXX edition is a retail overclocked card so it may be a possibility - but my temps always seem very low when i drop out of the game randomly to check temps. Still worth a try.
 
No joy with the fan upped to 100%.

Edit: - Furmark is crashimg and my temps are fine - so looking into other oprions...

Any ideas, anyone? (think i may need to post on general or gfx forum)
 
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have you installed the latest multi core patch from MS, theres one that wasn't in service packs and doesn't come up in windows update. I was getting loads of random crashes in a few game, city of heroes sometimes I could play a whole day with nothing, sometimes 5 mins and I get a crash and really anywhere inbetween. Apparently timing issues within Vista(maybe xp/win 7 aswell, not sure), if fixed COH for me, fixed COH on my other comp so seems to effect both intel/amd systems, fixed several other games I was getting random crashes in that I "had" attributed to drivers/gpu.

Its still very stupid that neither Nvidia nor ATi run an upto date advice page that gives you hints as to every last patch, driver, tweak, program etc you should install to have max stability.
 
Is your Rig an AMD CPU system?

I've heard of a ms multi core patch for amd chips but not for intel - but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist as this is my first intel dual core build.

I'm trying to google for it but i'm not getting much luck do you have a link that i could check out?

Thanks for the reply.

Plec
 
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