[Hybr!d]

If your clocking, putting it back to defaults is essential in finding out the problem.

[Bubba]

As a Crysis owner/player I would have to lean towards the NO PATCHES as the problem. When it was released, Crysis had a propensity for crashing randomly and it took a couple of patches to fix it.

Try this: http://files.filefront.com/Crysis+v1.../fileinfo.html

Crud, I just noticed you are from England, that might not be the closest place to get a patch. Try it and if it's too slow a download, then google Crysis Patch and find a place closer to home.

EDIT: As far as I can tell that patch 1.2 is the last one released. They were supposedly working on a 1.3 back in Arpil of last year I think but i never saw it and didn't find it just now when I looked.

Also, you aren't trying to run it in DX10 are you?

[mctw]

heyy again

in answer to your posts

ive installed the latest patch, if anything it has become worse, get 10 mins now before it crashes
have turned the CPU overclock off, made no difference that i can tell
im playing on a XFX 8800GS 384mb card
and nope, running on DX9, as im on XP

however, ive had a few bluescreens instead of just the app closing, all of which seem to be related to the graphics drivers. the top of the bsod said driver irql not less or equal.

after seeing this ive totally uninstalled and reinstalled the graphics drivers/software. to no avail

gonna try reinstalling the game once ive found the save game files..

much obliged for your help so far!
MCTW

[rbscooby]

u got the latest drivers from the web, last time i got the last blue screen about IRQL it was to do with my memoray try some new sticks, there cheap as chips at the mo

[mctw]

yup, ive used the latest drivers from XFX/nvidia....
ill try some new ram chips if the reinstall doesnt make a difference

as a point tho, ive neva had that screen come up on anything else.

cheers
MCTW

[rbscooby]

yea i nvr had a problem tell i did a new build, and i got the IRQL thing, took me a week to work out exactly what it was, and it was the memory but it could also be the memory off your graphics card, but obviously the cheapest thing to replace is your memory, if you can get some out of a working system that would be good.


dont forget MEmoray can go bad overtime, especially if the overclock was pushing it a bit this could be the case, like i said try new memorry first to eliminate that problem.

[mctw]

right then, ive tried everything that you kind people have suggested, apart from the new ram chips.

updated directx, nvidia drivers and soundcard drivers.
uninstalled, ran a registry cleaner and rebooted, reinstalled and applied patch, game ran fine for bout 3 or 4 hours!!
shut pc down, came back later, its crashing out worse than it used to!!
tried turning the overclock and antivirus software off, to no avail!

tried it quite a few times since reinstall, and seem to be getting blue screens more often, with a error relating to a n4sp.dll file, which judging from the wording, seems to be related to the graphics hardward/software.

will try the memory as soon as can get hold of some, thanks for the help so far!!

[Bubba]

I had the same problem with Crysis, but i'll be damned if I can remember what I did to fix it. But just for grins, I've been having problems lately with COD5. Thought it was video card, maybe DVD reader, PSU..... ect....... Today, I shut my antivirus and firewall off and it ran flawlessly. Just a thought.

Also, what do you have running in the background? Crysis is a serious resource hog.

[mctw]

erm, have antivirus obvs, printer/software, tablet software, nvidia forceware, realtek audio, and setpoint - bluetooth mouse and keyboard controller.

ive tried turning off the antivirus already, didnt make any difference