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'Random Game: has stopped working'

mitchellator

mitchellator

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For the past few days every time i try and play anything that's not a 'high' system requirement after afew minutes/seconds of actual game play they game freezes, goes black and the above message comes up. So far it's happened with Borderland 2, Far Cry 3, Serious Sam 3.

I'm assuming it's a GFX card problem: im running a GTX 670, i've tried uninstalled old drivers and installing the newest possible ones and still getting the error. I'm completely useless when it comes to PC's so any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Not a high system requirement? Farcry 3 is the highest released so far??

Check temps? Have you overclocked the card?

Seems like a driver issue to me, i use to get this with the 285 but sometimes it would fix itself, but since you have reinstalled. Try the next one down from the newest i think they are more stable.
 
weehamish said:
Not a high system requirement? Farcry 3 is the highest released so far??

Check temps? Have you overclocked the card?

Seems like a driver issue to me, i use to get this with the 285 but sometimes it would fix itself, but since you have reinstalled. Try the next one down from the newest i think they are more stable.
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Anything that's not, so for instance LoL and WoW work.
I tried both the most recent and driver below, both have the same problem :/
The card is overclocked as when i bought the PC it came like that, after googling my problem some people with similar recommend reverting the overclocking settings, i have no idea how to do that or if it will work
 
Hmm so its an OC version? It still should work!

You need to download something like MSI AB and then lower the core and memory clocks, or even up the voltage, it does seem like the OC on the card is unstable though.

How long have you had the card? You may have to send it back.

Btw what PSU do you have?
 
Dude you got it from OCUK?

You have 2 years warranty! Ask for them to send a new 670 out to you and try that one if it works send the old one back, its simple as that!

Its all covered for 2 years so youll be fine.

Go post in customer service, you should not need to lower clocks at all.
 
If switching drivers doesn't work, this is a faulty card. Normaly a voltage bump sorts this error out but on occasions, it doesn't and in the cases it doesn't, RMA was required.
 
Done as you said and posted in the thread, they've said they will send me a new card once they receive this one.
However i forgot to mention that instead of the game crashing i've sometimes had BSODS with the error message: 'a clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the time interval'
 
Doing a quick google on that error its something to do with OCing your CPU or BIOS needs updated.

Did you OC your CPU? Reset it to defaults and try again it could be an unstable OC, also try updating the MB BIOS if that dont work.
 
Only just seen the above two replies.
But just came back to this thread to say i got the new card and the problem is still occurring.

To answer the above: personally i didn't OC the PC but it is overclocked from where i bought it. I'd have no idea how to go about updating an OC or MB BIOS, im assuming its not as simple as downloading drivers...
 
Reboot your PC and tap DEL, go into the BIOS and load default setup, if this fixes it its your OC on the CPU.

Contact the place you got it from and tell them the OC is faulty, they should go through how to OC it over the phone or even send a screenshot of the settings via email and then you need to test the system to see if its stable.

Hope you sort it out :)
 
Thirded. Thought was my 7970 clocks but turned out my RAM wasn't 100% stable and needed a bump in voltage
 
mitchellator said:
Only just seen the above two replies.
But just came back to this thread to say i got the new card and the problem is still occurring.

To answer the above: personally i didn't OC the PC but it is overclocked from where i bought it. I'd have no idea how to go about updating an OC or MB BIOS, im assuming its not as simple as downloading drivers...
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Very simple, but download CPUZ and put some load on the CPU and tell us the clockspeeds. You may just need 1 little voltage change or multiplyer reduction...go do some reading first so you understand the basics ;)
 
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