PR/ BF2 freezing

[theiceman]

This is a recent problem that just started. I have no idea why. i join a game and about every 20-30 seconds it freezes for about 15 seconds then comes back. Its not my GPU temp or CPU temp I check those after every time it freezes and they are good. Any ideas on a fix?

[LITOralis.nMd]

when you get the time try to defrag your hard drive?
Could have some of the larger files frgmented and the system is taking longer than usual to read the files and put them into RAM/virtual memory.

[theiceman]

when you get the time try to defrag your hard drive?
Could have some of the larger files frgmented and the system is taking longer than usual to read the files and put them into RAM/virtual memory.

I did that. it seemed to have worked but only for about 20 minutes. then the problem came back. what else should I do. i checked my drivers for my GPU and they are up to date. Also, during one of the freezes I pressed alt+f4 cause i was pissed. It stayed frozen then once it came out i exited everything and i saw that there was a little info bubble at the bottom right that said "Display driver stopped working and has recovered".

What should i do?

[LITOralis.nMd]

" "Display driver stopped working and has recovered". "
That gives us the piece of info needed to fix this.
PLease tell us your system specs, and which OS you use, and if 32 or 64 bit.
either
1. your GPU drivres are borked.
2. your DirectX9 is borked.
3. your BIOS/chipset drivers are borked.
4. your registry is borked.



The most usual 2 ways to fix this is to
1. completely uninstall your AMD Radeon drivers, download stable drivers with a different build number, and reinstall the AMD Radeon drivers and CCC. 20870InstallGuideforATIHardware&Drivers

2. Download the MS directx9.0c reditributable, and run it as admin, when it asks to overwrite exsiting, choose "yes". Microsoft DirectX Drivers Redistributable 9.0c - Download.com



Here is a lsit of all known solutions...
How to troubleshoot

[MaSSive]

Post your full system specs along with OS version and build. And driver version of your graphic card.

Edit: Ninja'd...stage is yours

[theiceman]

AMD phenom II x4 955
xfx radeon 6790
8gb 1600 (oc)
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
SP1
Asus M4a78T-e mobo


this might be very relevant. My motherboard is from 2009. So the driver/bios disk that comes with it does not work with win 7.(it says that when i put it in the Comp) so i technically have never installed drivers for my Mobo. But on the asus site it says i need driver updates but whenever I DL them they come as a ROM file and thats useless....

[LITOralis.nMd]

IT's not useless. You definitely should update your BIOS and chipset drives now.

EDIT:
Do this first!!!

Your Mobo has EZFlash..

I have noticed that your motherboard has EZ Flash2. My motherboard also has it and I have used it a few times before. There is no need to make a bootable disk. Simply copy the .ROM file onto a USB flash drive, reboot, enter your BIOS (by hitting the DEL key), search for EZ Flash (on mine it is under Tools) and update your BIOS.

When you extract the BIOS files, make sure they are extracted to the Root of the thumbdrive, it makes this much easier.

It is still safer to copy over all other files to a backup location on desktop before doing this, but not necessary.

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Original post, this is old fashioned way to do it. Only try this if EZFlash doesn't work.

Download BIOS upgrade, the latest version, for your OS
on;
ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Drivers and Download M4A78T-E

Found a USB thumbdrive. Copy all data to another location.

Follow directions to create a bootable USB following "How to Create a bootable USB Memory Key" on;
How to format a USB memory key

next extract the BIOS zip file, something like" M4A78T-E-2303.zip" on to the root of the thumbdrive.

restart PC, press whatever Function key, usually F1 or F2, to get into BIOS or boot selector, choose USB as first boot priority.

[MaSSive]

Meeh Win7 has quite good built in drivers, I dont think it might be the issue but lets update to exclude that one. I have even older mobo, and there is no drivers at all for it for Win7 x64 ( well audio only yes ) and its working fine.

Its old AM2+ mobo but I flashed bios so I can use AM3 CPU upto 95W TDP.

DO what Lito said, and then well see.

[theiceman]

IT's not useless. You definitely should update your BIOS and chipset drives now.

EDIT:
Do this first!!!

Your Mobo has EZFlash..

I have noticed that your motherboard has EZ Flash2. My motherboard also has it and I have used it a few times before. There is no need to make a bootable disk. Simply copy the .ROM file onto a USB flash drive, reboot, enter your BIOS (by hitting the DEL key), search for EZ Flash (on mine it is under Tools) and update your BIOS.

When you extract the BIOS files, make sure they are extracted to the Root of the thumbdrive, it makes this much easier.

It is still safer to copy over all other files to a backup location on desktop before doing this, but not necessary.

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Original post, this is old fashioned way to do it. Only try this if EZFlash doesn't work.

Sorry for the late reply. This is what i have done so far to try and fix the issue.

-I did exactly what you told me in the OP. ( used ez flash to update bios, went smoothly but didnt fix the problem.)

-followed the regedit instruction on this page
Display driver stopped responding and has recovered Error message in Windows Vista or Windows 7

- Use a drive sweeper to completely remove drivers and re install all of them fresh. (cat 12.6)

And i know this is not a heating problem. I am using MSI afterburner to monitor the temp and it can freeze at 54 deg.

I have noticed something really weird about the issue. It happenes alot when I am browsing you tube or have a page with you tube videos on it. Also it happens ALOT when I try to play league of legends. (like every 15 seconds). But when I play pr it can happen anywhere from 20 min to 5 min apart while normal game play but i freeze up like twice whenever i try to climb a ladder in game. And last but not least I can play BF3 for hours with absolutely nothing go wrong, no freezing or anything.

[LITOralis.nMd]

One of those problems where you can end up completely tearing down the PC and rebuilding and might or might not find the problem.

Here is a nice long article listing every possible prblem/solution to your current problem:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pa ... sages.aspx

As in:
Turn off hardware acceleration for AdobeFlash/Youtube/etc.


Reseat your video card
Reseat your RAM.
make sure you CPU cooler is properly connected.
Stress test your RAM.
Stress Test your GPU.

Maybe you could slightly underclock your GPU and see if it becomes more stable. It's possibly a voltage issue to the GPU.

If you have another GPU sitting around, you might want to swap the GPUs and see if it's a GPU hardware/firmware issue.

[MaSSive]

Nasty problem. I had it with nvidia, and no matter what I do it kept coming back. Driver crash occurred while surfing the web, playing games, mostly when GPU is onto something. I never fixed it completely. After I reinstalled system its not happening anymore. So I guess something was really broken in windows that kept it happening. I'm not suggesting you to reinstall just saying what I did about it.

[theiceman]

Nasty problem. I had it with nvidia, and no matter what I do it kept coming back. Driver crash occurred while surfing the web, playing games, mostly when GPU is onto something. I never fixed it completely. After I reinstalled system its not happening anymore. So I guess something was really broken in windows that kept it happening. I'm not suggesting you to reinstall just saying what I did about it.

I know i was thinking about doing that but it isnt something that happens 24/7 so thats why im hesitant to do that. Some days I can go without it happening... others it happens every 10 minutes. And me being able to play BF3 for ever with no problems then play league of legends and have it freeze every 20 seconds...it just puzzles me.

thank you for all the help though! I would have been completely lost without it.

[MaSSive]

Sounds like it only happens with DX9 games? Try updating DX9c:

Download: DirectX Redist (June 2010) - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details

Before you ask, yes Win7 has native DX11 but it also has DX9 libraries, and sometimes refreshing them might solve a lot of issues. Once done with installing reboot.