I've been having screen freezing and total locks since installing expansion. I tried game booster, CCleaner, setting game mode on my antivirus, lowering visual settings, resetting modem, still experiencing these problems every few seconds to the point where its unplayable.
my specs:
Intel core I7 2.00 GHz
Windows 7 64bit home premium
12gb system memory
video card: GeForce GTX 560M version 306.97
Total available graphics memory: 4852 MB
Dedicated video memory: 3072 MB GDDR5
70.3 GB HD space
Bitdefender antivirus
[Edited on 12-10-2012 by sundalo]
[Edited on 12-11-2012 by Vice]
[EM 2.088] Constant screen freezing and lock ups *FIXED*
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sundalo
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[EM 2.088] Constant screen freezing and lock ups *FIXED*
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[EM 2.088] Constant screen freezing and lock ups *FIXED*
Your description sounds like either a heat issue or driver issue. The behavior due to now playing the expansion is likely just a coincidence. Some quick searches around the net indicate the 560M seems to freeze most often due to temperatures, but there are some driver related issues as well. I'd suggest the following:
1 - Check for heat issues on your system, especially the GPU (SpeedFan is a good tool to check temperatures). Clean out the system completely, particularly CPU/GPU heatsink(s). Use a can of compressed air to clean with.
2 - Try both rolling back your display driver to an older version, then test. Then update to the latest (if the one you're using is not already the latest).
3 - Stop as many background startup/running tasks as feasible, then test again. If the problem goes away, gradually turn them on again one at a time to determine which one was causing the problem.
4 - Uninstall Bitdefender entirely, use something else for protection as desired, then launch and test the game.
1 - Check for heat issues on your system, especially the GPU (SpeedFan is a good tool to check temperatures). Clean out the system completely, particularly CPU/GPU heatsink(s). Use a can of compressed air to clean with.
2 - Try both rolling back your display driver to an older version, then test. Then update to the latest (if the one you're using is not already the latest).
3 - Stop as many background startup/running tasks as feasible, then test again. If the problem goes away, gradually turn them on again one at a time to determine which one was causing the problem.
4 - Uninstall Bitdefender entirely, use something else for protection as desired, then launch and test the game.
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sundalo
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[EM 2.088] Constant screen freezing and lock ups *FIXED*
Yep think it was the heat issue Vice, used a can of air, cleaned up the build up and I think Bitdefender was causing some issues as well because when I switched to AVG antivirus, it mentioned during the scan that even when I unistalled Bitdefender, it was listed as a threat during the AVG scan. Running smooth so far, thank you.
\"There\'s a war going on out there, and it ain\'t easy!\"
\"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.\"
\"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.\"
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[EM 2.088] Constant screen freezing and lock ups *FIXED*
Great, I'll mark it fixed. Thanks for the follow up.