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System Name | Black Panther |
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Processor | i9 9900k |
Motherboard | Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO Wifi 1.0 |
Cooling | NZXT Kraken X72 360mm |
Memory | 2 x 8GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 3600Mhz |
Video Card(s) | Palit RTX2080 Ti Dual 11GB DDR6 |
Storage | Samsung EVO 970 500GB SSD M.2 & 2TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm |
Display(s) | 32'' Gigabyte G32QC 2560x1440 165Hz |
Case | NZXT H710i Black |
Audio Device(s) | Razer Electra V2 & Z5500 Speakers |
Power Supply | Seasonic Focus GX-850 Gold 80+ |
Mouse | Some Corsair lost the box forgot the model |
Keyboard | Motospeed |
Software | Windows 10 |
I am assuming this is not a hardware problem since I never had a game crash, freeze or BSOD on me apart from the Sims 3 - and I had solved the Sims problem by going for an older graphics driver then (because come 11.4 and 11.5 the game just worked fine).
I play Dirt 2, Metro 2033, Crysis and Crysis 2, Portal 1 & 2, Fallout New Vegas, Amnesia, Oblivion... all without any issues at all.
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I have a hard copy of Dirt 3 on dvd (because for some reason Steam doesn't sell it in my region).
I installed it on the 250GB external drive connected by e-sata (just like the rest of my non-Steam games, to save ssd space). It's on the desktop you can see in my system specs (not the laptop).
The game installed fine. It started up fine, Games For Windows Live logged me in perfectly like it does with Dirt 2 and Fallout....
Then I was inputting my name and nationality etc, when the game froze.
Ctrl-Alt-Del worked. I got a window saying that Dirt 3 had stopped working.
On the second try, exactly the same thing above happened.
Turning to google before the 3rd try, I removed all 'startup' items from msconfig - it allowed me to choose my car and start a race in Norway (which ran perfectly smooth and fantastic!) only to get a big freeze after a minute.
Not only didn't Ctrl-Alt-Del work this time but while I was trying it I got the Blue Screen of Death requiring a re-boot of my pc.
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I'm nonplussed as to where to start trouble-shooting now.
I'm using the latest drivers 11.5b hotfix and 11.5 cap1 for application profiles.
And as I already said, the rest of my games run fine...
My 5970 isn't overclocked (apart from slight factory oc).
Temperatures of both GPU and CPU are fine and well within limits.
So, what gives?