Dirt 3 - can't play at all - continual crashes, freezing and BSODs (is it just me?)

[cadaveca]

oh, im calm...too calm...

my issues are different than hers but similiar to untold hundreds of other users based on the dirt 3 forum reaction.

regardless, paying 45 bucks for a game and then having to spend time fixing the issues for it is ridiculous. they should be paying me to fix their game

I dunno, to me, it's useful if it exposes hardware faults. Too many users don't validate thier clocks like I do, yet even so, this game did give me issues, even after my own rigorous OC testing.

I'm currently validating clock scaling with this app, to see if I should replace F1 2010 in my reviews...if it's a "system-killer", then it's one that might very well be very sensitive to clockspeed, so of course, that interests me greatly.

Personally, i think most of the crashing issues are stability ones, and I am near 80% convinced it's due to the Rature3D audio causing higher system utilization. Time will tell...back to review writing for me.

 

[cheesy999]

I dunno, to me, it's useful if it exposes hardware faults. Too many users don't validate thier clocks like I do, yet even so, this game did give me issues, even after my own rigorous OC testing.

I'm currently validating clock scaling with this app, to see if I should replace F1 2010 in my reviews...if it's a "system-killer", then it's one that might very well be very sensitive to clockspeed, so of course, that interests me greatly.

Personally, i think most of the crashing issues are stability ones, and I am near 80% convinced it's due to the Rature3D audio causing higher system utilization. Time will tell...back to review writing for me.

rapture caused 80% of dirt 2 problems so i'm sure its the same now

 

[cadaveca]

rapture caused 80% of dirt 2 problems so i'm sure its the same now

Sure, but you know what? I've NEVER had any issues with either Dirt2 or Dirt3, and Rapture3D. I had this crashing issue, but it was rectified by using stable ram, instead of the sticks I got here that I gotta now RMA.

And like I posted earlier, pushing clocks made this behavior appear, on the good ram, and GPU/CPU/MEM didn't matter...the crashes all appeared to be the same.

Take note...GPU CLOCKS...caused the same crash? Doesn't that kinda eliminate the audio portion of it?

 

[cheesy999]

Take note...GPU CLOCKS...caused the same crash? Doesn't that kinda eliminate the audio portion of it?

it might...

 

[Black Panther]

calm down it wasn't even the game is was her dodgy overclocks

Excuse me, my overclocks aren't dodgy If anything, my brain's dodgy for forgetting that I had experimented with my perfect oc

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Anyway, I checked my bios and found my cpu voltage (in bios) being set at 1.2875V and I remembered it had to be 1.32V to be stable.
Always in bios voltages though. CPU-Z always shows me much lower voltages. (perhaps it's vdroop...)


Anyway, game never crashed again, I played over 10 multiplayer games now so I guess I'm ok.

 

[Easy Rhino]

seems like every games released as a rolling beta though, better to just wait 6 months and buy a working game for 1/4 of the price

save money since it is cheaper then AND save money on hardware buying older games

 

[cheesy999]

Excuse me, my overclocks aren't dodgy If anything, my brain's dodgy for forgetting that I had experimented with my perfect oc

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Anyway, I checked my bios and found my cpu voltage (in bios) being set at 1.2875V and I remembered it had to be 1.32V to be stable.
Always in bios voltages though. CPU-Z always shows me much lower voltages. (perhaps it's vdroop...)


Anyway, game never crashed again, I played over 10 multiplayer games now so I guess I'm ok.

in that case 'calm down it wasn't even the game it was her dodgy memory'

i'd play on dirt 3 but i don't have the money at the moment (dirt 2 ftw) and i'm not playing on line until i change my gfwl username

 

[Black Panther]

hrm, well your problem is different than mine. im pretty sure my problem is a software issue, not a hardware issue. we will see...

I was pretty sure mine was a software issue too
Have you tried running the game with your Q9650 @ stock?

 

[Easy Rhino]

I was pretty sure mine was a software issue too
Have you tried running the game with your Q9650 @ stock?

it works after the update. most of the people on the dirt3 forums were having software issues and since my pc was at stock clocks with the newest drivers i figured it was going to take a software patch (600megs!) to fix it. i was right.