Overclocking and Supreme Commander

[Gashman]

right i have issue, and its getting on my nerves, supreme commander (and only that game) refuses to play when my CPU is overclocked, nothing else has any problem with it, it plays for about 5 minutes then causes a reboot, anyone got any ideas what is causing this or how to fix it?

 

[ots3go]

is the system 100% stable?

Prime or Orthos...

Doesn't sound like it to me.

Or

Reinstall SupCom at the higher clock? (doubt it'll do anything)

 

[Gashman]

i increased chipset voltage ftom 1.5 to 1.6V (numerical mistake there) and it seems to have stopped happening now strange?

 

[Justintime]

Why? obviously the chipset can't handle the FSB without a higher voltage. Have you ran orthos etc.. to check for stability?

 

[Gashman]

Why? obviously the chipset can't handle the FSB without a higher voltage. Have you ran orthos etc.. to check for stability?

yeah, was fine i think, though the problem has totally vanished now so its all good, dunno why i didn't just increase the chipset voltage anyways, its watercooled so no temperature issues

 

[adslegend]

What you have highlighted is that Orthos cannot stress your system 100%. I have overclocks before that ran Orthos overnight but would lock up in one or two loops of 3D Mark.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

how did you test your cpu for stability? supreme commander is a very highly cpu dependant game. if its crashing your cpu is overheating or its just unstable.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Supreme commander is a very cpu intensive game and will crash at slightest wave in stability, i was 2 days quad prime stable but that wasn't good enough for supreme commander, dropped the clock and it was perfectly fine again.

 

[Gashman]

yeah mine was prime stable but supreme commander crashed it regardless, but as i said increasing the chipset voltage seems to have fixed it completely, it hasn't happened since, seems to be running noticable faster as well, so hey