Crashing with an Overclock+Vista

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Alright i have had this game probably since it has come out and since then i have upgraded my system from time to time to keep up with the increased amounts of graphics and processing power needed to run the games such as crysis.

But after upgrading to vista i have encountered a problem the game always crashes randomly maybe 3 hours or even directly after starting it just stops working. What that means for me is that the game countinues running in the backrgound music noise everything, but the screen has gone black and i can't alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del out. I think this is because of 1 of 2 things the overclock on my CPU or the one on the GPU i think its the one on the GPU because the screen turining of and the game countinuing to run in the background could only be caused by the GPU.

But my question is this why is this happening EVERY other game i have works fine with this overclock Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 4, Team fortress 2, Company of heroes and even Supreme commander. So whats the problem is this game not overclock friendly? Has this happened to anyone else? I really don't want to take of the overclock if there is another solution because i really worked hard to get those overclocks and throwing them away is just a waste.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Some games work with overclocks, some don't. It might be another issue, sure; however, you should save your bios profile and try running at default clocks just to see if that does indeed fix the problem. You can restore your bios profile afterwards, so you don't have to do any real work.

If it is the overclock, you can try upping your voltage a tiny bit.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I lowered the Cpu overclock a tad now its orking fine with no crashes but need more time to tell for sure. Because i have gone longer with no crashes before.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Your overclock probably wasn't stable.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

The thing is that this overclock worked great with crysis a much more demanding and advanced game graphics wise and my overclock passed many diffrent benchmarks 3d Mark 06, super PI, Etc my overclock was most stable, i think that game is what the problem is. I don't mind if i have to lower it slightly but i wondering if anyone else encountered this. Because this game does not even come to stress test this computer has passed on various benchmarks.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

There is more to how a game is run simply by how advanced their graphics are. I'd imagine Sins requires many more calculations on the part of the CPU than Crysis, especially in larger games.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

i overclocked vista also. i have been mini dumps. im running the beta so i think it might been the problem. other then that it runs alot better on the overclock profile.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

If you overclock, you run your system outside its specifications. You have no right to complain if something isn't working on such a system.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

If it works at stock, but not when overclocked, that typically means the overclock isn't 100% stable.

Different games and programs stress different parts of the processor. While days of stress tests are often a good indicator, they're by no means a 100% stable overclock guarantee.

I'll give you an example. Take a peak at the forums here: http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r21093742-Ultimate-OC-Stress-Test

I've used that stress tester in the past on a processor. It throws CPU temps quite a bit above what Prime 95 does, which obviously means it stresses a lot more of the processor, and somebody in that thread noted that a system that was Prime stable for over 8 hours failed that test in under 10 minutes.

 

How does this tie in to Sins? Well it may not be as simple as Sins upping the processor temp more than the other games do (heck it may not). But there could be a processor feature that isn't used in the other games that may be used in Sins may get flaky on your CPU when overclocked and/or heated up. CPU's and GPU's are nearing a billion transistors. It only takes ONE of them to act flaky at a certain speed/voltage/temp, and if a certain program uses that transistor when it's running beyond what it can handle stably, it can crash.