BF2 Crashes after sometimes one hour

[Peesjee]

Hi,

i'm having crash problems with BF2. The problem is not like many other crashing to desktop, but crashing my whole system. A reboot is the only sulotion. My problem is that my crashes are unpredictable. Sometimes i can play more than 1 hour without crashing, sometimes after 15 minutes.

I've tested with a clean XP Pro install, latest NVIDIA drivers. I checked if there are any heating problems...nope (i guess an hour playtime means no heating problem). I lowered my BF2 video setting to medium for all settings...still crashing... The problem is that i can't test this very fast, cause it doesn't crash much, just every few hours...

My System:

P4 3.4Ghz
1G RAM
Nvidia Gainward 6800GS 256MB
Asus P5GDC Deluxe

Anyone got any ideas what i maybe haven't done yet? Or any hint to find the exact problem?

Greetz,
Peesjee

[Jaxx]

Im curious how much of your system resources are being used once in BF2?

And what internet service do you use DSL or Cable?

[Razorbladehaze]

I used to have an issue with my system restarting after about 5-10 min or up to an hour.

I have decided that it was a usb driver issue. I had installed drivers for most of my peripherials. When i went to safe mode, unpluged all my usb's, uninstalled everything under the usb in devmgmt.msc, and let the the xp drivers do everything the crashing stopped. I then reinstalled a few drivers that i really wanted (like G15) and had a few crashes but nothing like before.

So simply put use as few third party drives as possible to limit conflicts.

[mlkmnz]

I have a similar issue which I'm yet to rectify, but I'm down to faulty PSU by process of elimination - hard to check as I have a shuttle XPC and they take a weird size PSU.

[Peesjee]

hi,

thx for the answers...

- I'm using Cable, never had problems here before...
- when i'm playing, i'm not putting my pc under extreme circumstances. BF2 only uses about 600MB (i have 1GB), any my processor is never fully 100%. I'm only playing Medium settings here...

- I'll try the usb hint, you never know
- I have a new psu, so i'll wait this for the last to eliminate...

i forgot to mention i use AVG for virusses (i mean against ;)), but i never heard any problems about it...

Am i right, if i say that if i change my videocard AND motherboard, there is a great chance my problems are gone? (I'm happy with my videocard, but not with my Asus P5GDC Deluxe)... ????

Greetz
Peesjee

[dindysport81]

For some reason I will play for a few sometime an hour and sometimes three but every once in a while my system wont shut down but the game will but if I punch in the IP address I still have the same score...pretty damn annoying...