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something going on in bf2 ?

eracer2006

eracer2006

eracer2006

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having problems in bf2

can play for about 5 mins then the screen freezes, i hear a high pitched noise and loads of artillery and shots fired in the background, which then loops over and over.

nothing had changed hardware and software wise, i had rivatuner and intel tat log the temperatures of cpu and gpu, and they are all normal and fine ??

so i have no idea what the problem is ?

mostly these problems are gfx related so i thought to post here...
 
sounds like memory problem to me, try memtesting your memory see if everything is ok.

Then i would consider doing a re-install of the game.
 
How long you had the prob as BF2 is due a PB update as of yesterday.
Use pbsetup.exe to update PB & try it.
 
Could be PB, as mentioned there have been updates recently.

Also, i know you said you haven't changed anything but BF2 can be sensitive to overclocks so if you have previously overclocked try clocking it back. And if you haven't done it in a while open your PC and give it a good clean as it may be something overheating.
 
I updated punkbuster, cleaned the whole pc out etc just down

played bf2 fine for 2 hours (bar my deathadder no longer recognised by pc, works on the other pc's though)

and now i just had the same noise and freeze.

only thing is i have no way of knowing if its gfx, soundcard, psu, ram, etc.
 
This is almost certainly PB imo. The update was something major and if you look at your process list while playing you will see PB now uses about 50 meg spread between 2 processes.
Also PB now loads a service with windows, constantly in the background.

I hope they refine it a bit or reverse the upgrade even.


Obviously trying to mod or alter PB is going to get you kicked but its doing that to people occasionally now anyway. You may want to try lowering your sound and other settings to see if that helps.
Increase your pagefile size also
 
Thanks

It might well be PB as it only started happening around the time the new PB fix came out..

So it seems theres naff all i can do about it. GRRR

I have 4gb of pagefile and 2gb of ram already..... i shouldnt thing 50mb would be a problem ?
 
Just found this in another thread, it may be of some relevance

- Added protective technologies aimed to jam unsafe memory scanner of PunkBuster anticheat system and this way prevent this anticheat system from crashing graphics hardware when RivaTuner resides in memory. Unfortunately new 1.7xx versions of PunkBuster client (debuted on 04.17.2007 with Battlefield 2142 client) caused major system stability issues in conjunction with wide range of applications accessing hardware via user mode MMIO address ranges. Apart from scanning executable code new PunkBuster services also fully scan data memory ranges of each process, which is critically dangerous when it comes to applications accessing hardware registers via memory mapped I/O port user address ranges. Unauthorized access to hardware mapped memory ranges performed by anticheat system's memory scanner may cause unpredictable results including hardware failures and freezing. The problem is not specific to RivaTuner and also covers wide range of ATI and NVIDIA oriented diagnostic, overclocking and monitoring tools (e.g. ATITool, PowerStrip, HIS iTurbo etc) developed by third parties as well as by certified AIB/AIC partners. The situation had been investigated with help of Battlefield 2142 gamers community and is fully documented in RivaTuner's support forums, however, many inexperienced gamers never visit forums or read documentation and still wrongly interpret these crashes as instability of third party tools including RivaTuner, hurting software reputation in different forums this way. Unfortunately, the problem is still neither fixed nor documented by Evenbalance, furthermore, the situation got critically worse in the end on June 2007 when Evenbalance launched the same unsafe PunkBuster clients v1.7xx for America's Army, Call of duty, Call of duty 2, Enemy territory: Quake Wars, F.E.A.R etc. Due to this sad reason I cannot longer wait for response and fix from Evenbalance and risk RivaTuner software reputation because of anticheat system issues. The following features are introduced and aimed to prevent RivaTuner from being improperly accessed by PunkBuster or any similar memory scanner:
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17771875
 
It protects itself, did you always run rivatuner when these problems occured. Its only going to solve any possible problem related to rivatuner, nothing else
 
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