Carpal Tunnel Clan

I got mine, and I know Sal is in. Who else?

I know I shouldn't, that I wont like it that much and reluctantly play it....that said its still a maybe.

I am having some issues with my PC crashing during BF3. It was powering down during the game so I updated my drivers. Now it goes BLUE SCREEN on me. I would buy a new one if I thought it would help.

I like the game a lot. I would love to get this game.

But I need to figure out what are the next steps.

Hi Ru-

What videocard are you using? Also, what driver version?

Do you have a sound card? Blue Screen, very uncommon for me anymore, but when it happens, usually due to overheating or driver issue. Have you checked temps in your computer?

I'm gonna throw in:

Power Supply

Is your PSU rated at or above the amps needed by your card?

If you turn the graphics down, does it help at all?

FIRST, before you roll back drivers or replace any hardware, do a memtest. I was having crashes in COD BO2 but not in BF3. It was weird, so I thought it was the game itself. Turns out I had mem errors very high in the register (somewhere around 5.8gb out of 6gb). I guess BF3 just never needed to use memory in that part of the register, whereas COD was, making it crash.

Use this utility. You can download a bootable CD image:
http://www.memtest86.com/

Knave_Skye wrote:I know I shouldn't, that I wont like it that much and reluctantly play it....that said its still a maybe.

I think you'll like it better if we all start at the beginning. It is definitely a different game from COD, but it sure is a good time.

Yeah, but money is getting tighter and I will probably have to pick this or CoD. Might be time to call in some return on all the games ive handed out =P

I'll be getting it.

• Intel Core i7-960 Bloomfield 3.2GHz
• Noctua 140mm SSO CPU Cooler: Model: NH-C12P-SE14
• ASUS Rampage III Formula LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
• Patriot Viper Xtreme 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000)
• EVGA 012-P3-1571-KR GeForce GTX 570 HD w/Display-Port
• Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 850W ATX12V
• 1 x ARCTIC COOLING AF12Pro PWM 120mm Case Fan
• 4 x Scythe S-FLEX SFF21F 120mm Case Fan
• 2 x Antec 120mm SmartCool Thermally Controlled Case Fan
• HITACHI Deskstar 7K3000 HDS723020BLA642 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
• Acer V243HAJbd Monitor Black 24" 2ms(GTG) Widescreen LCD
• Black AeroCool Touch-2000 Touch LCD Panel, w/ e-SATA, USB, Mic and Headphone
• Logitech G500 Mouse
• LG UH10LS20 Blu-ray Disc Combo Internal SATA
• Windows 7 64bit Ultimate

EVGA Precision and my case gage say temps are below 60° at all times
Display driver is Nvidia 326.80
Power supply is in overkill mode
Will perform another memtest because it has been a while

This too my brother from another mother...

http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

[I'm convinced we are distant relatives from way back]

Ghosted wrote:
[I'm convinced we are distant relatives from way back]

Indeed.

Ran some of the test suggested and I honestly believe it is related to my video card overheating. Fan setting was a off and so was the temp gauge. Both of them being my fault.

With that being said I actually like this game more than COD. I will likely get a new video card and dive in.

I'm on display driver 320.49, no crashing. Same 570 series. I think Knave used to have an issue with one game, might be this one, that caused him to crash as well. I don't know if he ever fixed that.

Lol, might have fried that vcard. 770 seems like the one to get. I play Bf3 on an i7-950 myself, but at 3.4ghz.