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Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:08 pm
by Till
Ok, but the error-message isn't the real problem.
Is there anything I could do about the framerate?

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:19 pm
by Dr.Disaster
Till wrote:Ok, but the error-message isn't the real problem.
Is there anything I could do about the framerate?
Beside setting Rendering Mode to "Low"?
Maybe a tiny bit by disabling the Windows Swapfile and running entirely on RAM but that's just a very vague guess.

In general you need a better CPU/GPU.

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:26 pm
by badhabit
Till wrote:Thanks for your help!
GPU Load ingame: 65 - 80
GPU Load without playing: 0 - 2
I cant find values named PerfCap Reason, Power Consumption =/ .

Yeah, I got 3 error messages; all were different. But I got none message when the pc get frozen.
Significant smaller GPU load than 100%, sounds like your GPU is "starving" as the CPU is unable to feed it ... maybe the CPU is overheating and resulting in a secondary error, showing as EA error ?!? Check the CPU temperature with CPU-Z.

About more frames per second, if the CPU is the limitation, are there "high performance options" for enforcing full clock of the CPU?
For reducing the load on the system (and having more FPS), you could switch to significant lower resolutions possible in windows mode as described here (e.g 800x600 or even 640x480)

And, send a support request per email to AH, that they consider this problem as serious enough for enough people for fixing.

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:29 pm
by Dr.Disaster
badhabit wrote:Significant smaller GPU load than 100%, sounds like your GPU is "starving" as the CPU is unable to feed it ... maybe the CPU is overheating and resulting in a secondary error, showing as EA error ?!?
Hello! Intel HD! Here the CPU is the GPU and GPU-Z says temperature is less then 60 degrees!
You should really read what people post and quit living on expectations.

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:29 pm
by badhabit
Dr.Disaster wrote:
badhabit wrote:Significant smaller GPU load than 100%, sounds like your GPU is "starving" as the CPU is unable to feed it ... maybe the CPU is overheating and resulting in a secondary error, showing as EA error ?!?
Hello! Intel HD! Here the CPU is the GPU and GPU-Z says temperature is less then 60 degrees!
You should really read what people post and quit living on expectations.
I wrote CPU not GPU, this chips are fairly big and could overheat locally while staying OK in other parts. Also, GPU-Z is known to misinterprete sometimes the raw numbers read out from the chips.

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:31 pm
by Dr.Disaster
badhabit wrote:
Dr.Disaster wrote:
badhabit wrote:Significant smaller GPU load than 100%, sounds like your GPU is "starving" as the CPU is unable to feed it ... maybe the CPU is overheating and resulting in a secondary error, showing as EA error ?!?
Hello! Intel HD! Here the CPU is the GPU and GPU-Z says temperature is less then 60 degrees!
You should really read what people post and quit living on expectations.
I wrote CPU not GPU
With an Intel HD the CPU is the GPU .. a.k.a. build-in

But ok, let's ask CPU-Z about the temperature too. How many temperature sensors those Intel chips might have?

Re: Game freezes/crashes every 5 min

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:33 pm
by badhabit
Dr.Disaster wrote:
badhabit wrote:
Dr.Disaster wrote:
Hello! Intel HD! Here the CPU is the GPU and GPU-Z says temperature is less then 60 degrees!
You should really read what people post and quit living on expectations.
I wrote CPU not GPU
With an Intel HD the CPU is the GPU .. a.k.a. build-in
read my addition...

but in general, the intersting point is that the GPU load is not 100% which indicates a CPU bottleneck