Strange BF3 Problem

[RobSmith]

Ayup guys,

For a good 2 weeks now I've been having this problem where after about 2-3 hours of playing BF3 the game minimizes, but when I try to re-open the game from the taskbar icon it does not appear back up on my screen. Strangely, my mouse completely disappears as if it's being "used" by the game when I do try to re-open the game, and according to task manager it's still actually running. But what doesn't make sense is if I end the process and open a new game it runs completely fine again for another 3 hours.

Now I was wondering if this could be caused to my GFX card working overtime. I'm playing with maxed settings on a GTX 580 (1.5GB) at 1920x1080 and to keep my card cool I've ramped up my fan profile pretty high, the max temps I see are 73C and average 70C. If my card/fan are having to work that hard for long periods of time are they likely to "take a rest" like what's happening now?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Cheers

 

[RobSmith]

ive had a similar problem in bf3 but mine is random sometimes after 1 map sometimes after 6 hours played all day sunday no probs yet fired it up a hour ago and it happened within half hour

i put it down to bf3 to be honest i know its not updating anything the pc is a games machine and used for gaming and never anything else not even browsing.

Yeah ditto. I know it's not a simple case of another application causing the game do temporarily minimise.

Perhaps a driver revert is worth a try. It's just a complete ballache when you've managed to rack up 10k exp for it to not register after it crashes.

 

[RobSmith]

Doesn't alt-tab to some other program and then alt-tab back to bf3 work? Does for me when it happens...

No, I wouldn't have made a thread if it was a simple case of alt-tabbing back to the game

It's happening far more frequently now and is REALLY starting to hack me off.

Reverting back to driver 285.79