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Driver issue??????
I can see this is not a straightforward issue to sort out. Anyway, I'm
replaying the game on medium and let's see if I'm going to experience the crashes I had experienced while the graphics were set high. Watch this space. The game started nicely but I'm afraid to say that it kept crashing at the latter part no matter what graphics resolution was set. It even crashed when I was a few minutes into the game. Temp. running at 72 C during the game. Perhaps you once had an Nvidia card installed? Anyway, One of the things I tried was to bring the system up using the MS VGA/SVGA driver only. This allowed me to make sure that no ATI or Nvidia drivers were active. Earlier version CCC and other AMD software was uninstalled. The registry was checked for left over entries and any obvious ATI and Nvidia video card related entries were eliminated. (I did save sections so that they might be restored if necessary.) There may have been some left over from the earlier ATI drivers included in Win 7, which installed automatically. Any ATI startup entries were removed. In my case my win 7 32b system was first used with an older Nvidia card I had around until an HD4890 was installed. The card had many of the problems you mentioned. Switching to an HD 5770 was a slight improvement, but still no cigar. Finally, after a series of driver updates, things calmed down quite a bit. Still not flawless. Crysis Warhead will still occasionally crash to the menu. However, Resume game gets me back to the game, instead of a hard crash to desktop or worse. I did this too with driver cleaners, Windows XP Pro. SP3's safe mode, registry cleaners, etc. They did not work for me. I think Crysis isn't good for ATi video cards. NVIDIA didn't have problems. Also, other games and softwares have no problems with this ATI video card and Catalyst v9.x drivers. I have not tried v10.x drivers since I got sick of upgrading and don't play games much anymore (haven't finished Crysis either). I doubt v10 will fix my Crysis crashes. -- Quote of the Week: "The antics begin!" --SimAnt Game /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Driver issue??????
On 11/2/2010 3:05 PM, Ant wrote:
I can see this is not a straightforward issue to sort out. Anyway, I'm replaying the game on medium and let's see if I'm going to experience the crashes I had experienced while the graphics were set high. Watch this space. The game started nicely but I'm afraid to say that it kept crashing at the latter part no matter what graphics resolution was set. It even crashed when I was a few minutes into the game. Temp. running at 72 C during the game. Perhaps you once had an Nvidia card installed? Anyway, One of the things I tried was to bring the system up using the MS VGA/SVGA driver only. This allowed me to make sure that no ATI or Nvidia drivers were active. Earlier version CCC and other AMD software was uninstalled. The registry was checked for left over entries and any obvious ATI and Nvidia video card related entries were eliminated. (I did save sections so that they might be restored if necessary.) There may have been some left over from the earlier ATI drivers included in Win 7, which installed automatically. Any ATI startup entries were removed. In my case my win 7 32b system was first used with an older Nvidia card I had around until an HD4890 was installed. The card had many of the problems you mentioned. Switching to an HD 5770 was a slight improvement, but still no cigar. Finally, after a series of driver updates, things calmed down quite a bit. Still not flawless. Crysis Warhead will still occasionally crash to the menu. However, Resume game gets me back to the game, instead of a hard crash to desktop or worse. I did this too with driver cleaners, Windows XP Pro. SP3's safe mode, registry cleaners, etc. They did not work for me. I think Crysis isn't good for ATi video cards. NVIDIA didn't have problems. Also, other games and software have no problems with this ATI video card and Catalyst v9.x drivers. I have not tried v10.x drivers since I got sick of upgrading and don't play games much anymore (haven't finished Crysis either). I doubt v10 will fix my Crysis crashes. Driver ver 10.10 helps but is not a complete cure. Actually, you can get a driver crash and automatic recovery in other games and apps. DX10 mode made things worse! You should try-- C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Bin32\crysistest.bat crysistest.bat contents @echo Running testbat @echo Using DX9 pause @echo Running... @crysis.exe -DX9 It's possible to also do this in a shortcut command line if you get the punctuation exactly correct! |
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Driver issue??????
I did this too with driver cleaners, Windows XP Pro. SP3's safe mode,
registry cleaners, etc. They did not work for me. I think Crysis isn't good for ATi video cards. NVIDIA didn't have problems. Also, other games and software have no problems with this ATI video card and Catalyst v9.x drivers. I have not tried v10.x drivers since I got sick of upgrading and don't play games much anymore (haven't finished Crysis either). I doubt v10 will fix my Crysis crashes. Driver ver 10.10 helps but is not a complete cure. Actually, you can get a driver crash and automatic recovery in other games and apps. Ah, I don't get crashes in other softwares on my box. Only in Crysis. DX10 mode made things worse! You should try-- C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Bin32\crysistest.bat crysistest.bat contents @echo Running testbat @echo Using DX9 pause @echo Running... @crysis.exe -DX9 It's possible to also do this in a shortcut command line if you get the punctuation exactly correct! Well, I can't do DirectX 10+ since I am still using XP. -- Quote of the Week: "The antics begin!" --SimAnt Game /\___/\ Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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