random crashes in battlefield 2

geeza · 6 Mar 2006 at 10:28

Since ive been playing on high detail 1280x1024 i seem to be getting more random crashes in game. No other games mess up such as fear or COD2, ive had it primed for 3hours and 3dmark 01-06 have all ran fine with not problems so im not thinking its my computer.

I did get them before on my 9800pro setup but not as many. When in high detail do you think it has problems that can happen (such as the geometry on tanks, jets etc?) that are causing it?

Ive searched on the net and found many are having random crashes but say it might be a whole load of other things like VOIP, audio drivers graphics drivers.....

amazing game, but theres so much that can go wrong its untrue

Lanz · 6 Mar 2006 at 10:45

The latest patch broke something, as many people are getting occasional crashes that never happened before. When I first installed it, I was getting one about every 90 mins, I then re-installed the Full patch, not the incr one. Got rid of the profiles folder, defragged, installed latest graphics drivers etc, and now it seems ok, I guess I've played for about 40hrs now without a crash.

So the best thing to do, it re-install it, delete every trace of it beforehand too, from the reg and your profiles.

chopchop · 6 Mar 2006 at 11:31

sure your overclock is stable?
remember its a new cpu to you so u dont know the limits properly yet. knock it down a few fsb(or add more voltage) and it should be ok.

MoNkeE · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:16

You seem to be having a few problems with your PC at the moment (noticed your Far Cry performance thread) - have you done a format since you installed the new graphics card?

If not, try ChopChop's advice.

What's your PSU?

-RaZ

geeza · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:33

PSU is hiper 580watt, its runnign prime now but it is stable for 3hours in prime. No idea what with farcry because all my 3dmarks are spot on for my setup.

I have formatted and reinstalled the omega 6.2 drivers. Lanz, if its a problem with the incremental patch should i try the full one?

Lanz · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:47

Worth a try, it seemed to fix it for me. There have been BF patches before that had bad incremental versions.

geeza · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:51

thanks. ill go for another bf2 install. thatll be about the 5th in 3 days!

edit -how would the 1.12 - 1.2 be any different to going straight to 1.2? surely it still puts the same stuff on as 1.2

chopchop · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:53

needs to be more than 3hrs stable in p95. wants to pass no matter how long u leave it. 8hrs min..

Lanz · 6 Mar 2006 at 12:53

The thing to do: Install BF2, Install SF, Install 1.2.

geeza · 6 Mar 2006 at 13:15

chopchop said:
needs to be more than 3hrs stable in p95. wants to pass no matter how long u leave it. 8hrs min..

on my old rig prime would fail after about 1minute with a rounding error. BF2 was completely stable though (that was back before 1.2 patch of course)