BF4 Completely Crashing PC

[chaotixblade]

Greetings,

Recently bought an r9 280x. Stock clocks 1100/1500 (6000 effective)

I recently bought bf4.

This (below) has happened three times.
Playing just fine, GPU fan slows down right as BF4 freezes. I have a very hard time getting to task manager. It is at that point AMD catalyst control center informs me that the drivers have crashed and have been recovered.

One time that happened I was unable to regain control of my PC and had to hard reset.

This (Below) has happened just once today.
I was playing and the exact same thing happened. Only this time, the machine froze and the screen went to vertical black / dark blue bars filling the screen.

My computer then rebooted by itself.

What the heck is going on?

My GPU never goes above 71* C. My CPU likewise. I have a CX600 PSU. Only using about 490 watts.

i5 3570
r9 280x
8gb (2x4) 1600 mhz
600w psu
Windows 7 64 bit

CCC 14.6 beta

(Can edit now)

Please don't punish me for double posting. The website will not allow me to edit the post...

@Mods / Tech guys can you look into that? Thanks.

Note that I play many other demanding games and they never crash. Such as Metro, Metro Last Light, BF3, Sleeping Dogs, etc. All at 1080p max settings with under 70* temperatures.

I've also run Furmark for a total of seven hours collectively. While the system does get pretty hot (76 degrees) it never has any of these symptoms.

My crashing and pc bsod'ing is exclusive to BF4. Is it my system or what?

(Metro Last Light I would think is much more demanding than BF4. As I hardly get 50 fps constant on it. BF4 always upper 80s)

 

[chaotixblade]

Its been four days, bump?

 

[Rexer]

Its been four days, bump?

Mine did for the first time, too. Same window, 'drivers crashed and been recovered'. Same temp. 159f/72c. Futzed around with the task manager like you did, too. Although I've been playing BF3 close quarters at the time. I'm overclocked to 1.2ghz. Sort of pushing a modified HD7950 with a water cooler. Actually, I was trying to find a breaking point, then drop the clock to 1.1ghz. I didn't heatsink the vram or MOSFET & it went 'mercury rising'.
But if more people had that happen, then it may be Origin. They were screwing around with PunkBuster during the weekend about something, asking players to be patient while they fix it. If it's Origin then it's out of our hands.
Being that BF3 and BF4 are big programs, sometimes they can't accommodate or access ram quickly, correctly and then glitch. Hell, each time it crashes, the Origin repair tool is needed. Oh, by the way, list your motherboard. I want to see your motherboard. It may also be the CCC 14.6 beta. Bata's been at fault before.
For starters go to Origin>MyGames>right click the BF4 game icon>in the dropbox run repair game then again for the 'update game'. If we get Origin out of the way, then we can start on the machines.

 

[Rexer]

Sometimes the motherboard needs to be updated to the latest drivers. Update your chipset, then your bios. I know Asus has a fail-safe built into the motherboard that crashes to boot start-up when it detects a harmful surge of power for any reason. It may just need an update or be turned off. Hope this helps.

 

[janpatz1983]

Greetings,

Recently bought an r9 280x. Stock clocks 1100/1500 (6000 effective)

I recently bought bf4.

This (below) has happened three times.
Playing just fine, GPU fan slows down right as BF4 freezes. I have a very hard time getting to task manager. It is at that point AMD catalyst control center informs me that the drivers have crashed and have been recovered.

One time that happened I was unable to regain control of my PC and had to hard reset.

This (Below) has happened just once today.
I was playing and the exact same thing happened. Only this time, the machine froze and the screen went to vertical black / dark blue bars filling the screen.

My computer then rebooted by itself.

What the heck is going on?

My GPU never goes above 71* C. My CPU likewise. I have a CX600 PSU. Only using about 490 watts.

i5 3570
r9 280x
8gb (2x4) 1600 mhz
600w psu
Windows 7 64 bit

CCC 14.6 beta

(Can edit now)

Please don't punish me for double posting. The website will not allow me to edit the post...

@Mods / Tech guys can you look into that? Thanks.

Note that I play many other demanding games and they never crash. Such as Metro, Metro Last Light, BF3, Sleeping Dogs, etc. All at 1080p max settings with under 70* temperatures.

I've also run Furmark for a total of seven hours collectively. While the system does get pretty hot (76 degrees) it never has any of these symptoms.

My crashing and pc bsod'ing is exclusive to BF4. Is it my system or what?

(Metro Last Light I would think is much more demanding than BF4. As I hardly get 50 fps constant on it. BF4 always upper 80s)

We had the same issue before, what I did
1. Re install windows- clean install
2. up date windows and gpu drivers must up to date.
3. update my bios

now I can play straight so far w/o crashing. you might try it.

 

[chaotixblade]

Thanks guys, just had to pick one. You've all be extremely helpful.

(I know a thanks isn't as good as a best answer, but that's all I can do.)