Ah, nothing like a healthy reboot for your system

Problem fixed.

Actually. Problem wasn't fixed. Those green flashes I mentioned earlier happen everytime I run the game for around 10-30 seconds. Something to do with my graphics card, judging on the administrative log event viewer. Any help?

Did all that, the game still crashes...I suspect my video card with a memory conflict?

I don't have a sensor, so no idea.

But, that would be a strange reason as that would mean my GPU skyrockets in temperature in the space of 10-20 seconds.

The thing is, they Shouldn't. My system specs are in most cases double or triple the performance required.

I have installed new drivers for my monitor, graphics card, and updated to the lastest patch. I have also installed this game on another computer, and no defects of the game were detected by me on there, so the disc is not corrupted.

So I feel like i'm walking into the dark on this one. No clue what to do.

The system is a week old, so dust shouldn't be an issue. If it were a driver issue, would Vista not work properly then, because its seemingly at 100% for me right now.

As far as the temperature is concerned, I downloaded a program from Nvidia's site that lets you tweak the fan on the GPU. I cranked it up from 3o% (default) to 70% and even removed the side panel of my tower. This brought my idling GPU from 58 degrees C to 48 degrees. The game still did the same thing however. Still, some people have told me it only needs to reach 70 before it starts to overheat. So should I invest in an aftermarket heatsink--WWW Link, or should I keep checking around?

Oh, here are some new things I found out:
Benchmark:
Memory read = 7788 MB/s
Memory write = 2061 MB/s
Memory latency = 60.7 ns
3068 MB of RAM free
Directx 10
750w PSU

Also, please note that I have a VGA output Monitor but a DVI-I output GPU, with an adapter to solve this. Although its trivial, I thought I might add it anyways.

Checking my event viewer reveals that "BIOS does not contain an IRQ for the device in PCI slot --" it repeats that message several times, with the -- being replaced with 22. 19, 23, 24, and 3, all in different messages all delivered at precisely the same time. These come along anytime my computer freezes due to the game.

EDIT: Thanks to kryo, I finally have a term to describe my crash. Yes, my computer is artifacting. For an example of this, here an image I found WWW Link. This depicts what my freeze and crash looks like almost exactly, except the white pixels are replaced white bright green ones for me. So...how do I solve artifacting

Mr.Domino,

The "default" display drivers are usually good enough to run one's OS, but when it comes to gaming......there are sometimes VAST differences betweeen driver revisions (in fact....sometimes you'll find older drivers giving you better performance). Of course, the first step should be making sure you've got the latest driver revision.

Hey.
Just ran Nvidia's nTune system stability test. Here are the results. Note: I used current settings for 10 minutes, nothing over the top.

All 5 systems at once: FAIL (this looking exactly like whats happening in Sins, with the green wave of artifacts covering my screen, but this time it happened in less than 2 seconds.
Processor: Pass
RAM: Pass
PCI-E Bus: Fail (system just froze)
Disk: Pass
GPU: FAIL (Same result for when I did the whole system)

I have not yet tried testing things such as the processor and RAM at the same time, but these results should give you a general idea.

Also, here is when my system is idling according to Nvidia Monitor.


Hope that helped!

EDIT: Here's the event veiwer right after the fatal crash.

Correct. Only my RAM is OC'd.
My GPU has the only temperature sensor I know of. After 20 minutes of playing Battlefield 2 (which works like a charm?) My GPU had only gone up 2 degrees C.

I'm going to download 3D Mark 06 just to see what the results are...if any

8800GT's were known for having their trash factory gpu-fan set to run really slow (due to the noise-level at higher speeds). Because it's such a trashy fan on the 8800GT's you could manually set the fan on your video card to run at 100% all the time (I think you can use RivaTuner to do that....I haven't had RivaTuner installed in a while so I can't remember).

I think there might be something you could do with your BIOS, but I have no idea what exactly would need to be done.

I'd ask for a replacement at this point.

Update your BIOS then.