Recent content by A Bear Guy

I'll check the Bios as you suggested, but no I did not use the Media Creation Tool, Windows simply prompted me to upgrade or not, and unfortunately I chose to upgrade. The main post has been edited per your recommendation.

Hi All, I recently purchased a pre-built Asus system because I felt that at the time the price was more than fair for what I got. This prebuilt is known for thermally maxing out and then shutting off under even light gaming loads, this is due to a case that only came with an exhaust fan, it was...

FX-8320 (3.9) 8gb of DDR3 RAM @ 1600Mhz MSI GTX 970 4gb Gaming (Factory) 750 Watt EVGA Power supply Asus Sabertooth R2.0 MoBo Windows 8.1 I'm currently in the market for a 27" monitor running at 1920x1080. I currently have a 23" Acer...

I just ended up buying a Soundblaster ZX from work and it is fantastic, and now my ports work... I still use SPDIF with the card, but the front panel connectors work now that I have them plugged into the soundcard as opposed to the header on my mobo.

It turns out that after I disabled Origin in game for Crysis 3 the game ran as it should. It makes me wonder why such a feature would cripple the game that way.

I also just realized that Red Alert 2, when run through Origin is unplayable, and I could play that game on my dad's Pentium as a kid, so I think it might have something to do with Origin. Has anyone else had issues with Origin causing these problems?

My system specs are as follows: FX-8320 (Factory clock) 4gb of G-Skill RAM @ 1600Mhz Sapphire R9-270x (factory clock) 750 Watt EVGA Power supply Asus Sabertooth R2.0 MoBo Windows 8.1 I bought Crysis 3 yesterday and it was playing fine on the high preset with Smaa x1 at 1920x1080, and the menus...

Oh ok, I found em, and it's not set to AMD, it's on the Realtek speakers. Well, this is odd. When I download and install the drivers from Realtek the headphone device appears and goes away and the digital audio stops working, but when I install the drivers from Asus the digital audio starts...