Random total freezes of my computer while playing...

[N3oW4r]

Hi everyone!

I just bought this awesome game, and played a bit, but I'm encoutering a real issue: my computer freezes randomly while playing. The first time it happened after a 1h session of playing, had to hard reboot my computer. The second time after 20s of playing, the third time after 20 minutes...

Each time I have to hard reboot.

I have upgraded my drivers this morning, so this isn't the problem imo.

My specs:

Windows 7 Pro SP1
Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2933MHz
4GO DDR2
ATI Radeon HD 5830

Can someone help me please? I really like this game, and this is a real pain in the ***, can't play without knowing if I'm gonna loose my progression at any time...

Thanks!

[Sol_HSA]

I just bought this awesome game, and played a bit, but I'm encoutering a real issue: my computer freezes randomly while playing. The first time it happened after a 1h session of playing, had to hard reboot my computer. The second time after 20s of playing, the third time after 20 minutes...

Each time I have to hard reboot.

Hard reboot sounds like a hardware issue. Is your video card or CPU overheating? Have you vacuum cleaned your PC lately?

[petri]

Do you have vertical sync enabled in options? Enabling it may help if your hardware is overheating due to insufficient cooling.

[N3oW4r]

After some tests, it seems that desactivating V-sync did the trick! (I read that V-sync activated was pretty friendly, like you said, but apparently not!)
Spent two 1 hours sessions this evening, no crash.

My computer is clean, and I play a lot of other games more demanding about the specs, so I don't think its an hardware issue.

If the problem really was V-sync, i'll come close the topic in the next days.

Thanks guys.

[Dr.Disaster]

I never heard about vsync freezing a system. What you described sounds very similar to the TDR-Bug found with some nVidia cards/driver combos. Prolly an update of your Catalyst driver and/or a driver config check will help.