my computer is well built, i can handle BF3 on an ultra/high/medium combo i like without losing frames at any sort of regular time. I have 2 460's which i've clocked up to a sexy number and they run phenomenally, running any and everything i want.

This game, however, decides that it wants to crash my computer. For some reason or another this game will either cause an over all failure in the computer, causing an immediate reboot and it'll just bring me to the mobo logo without so much as a blue screen or any explanation as I get into windows, or it will decide to hold the last tone it was playing and freeze my computer, requiring a hard reset and, again, no info when i get back into windows. I'm no slouch when it comes to computer diagnostics and repair, but this is just retarded and the only explanation is that SE is crashing my computer and if it damages my computer, that's my lively hood right there because I won't be able to work.

i don't understand how the current NVidia driver could be causing the issue, or how a sound card could cause a complete system freeze. If it doesn't work with the current drivers, why was it released?

i understand it's a complicated process, and patches generally are game specific because it is so complicated, but what i'm saying is that there shouldn't be problems with current software that cause such a severe issue when a game is released.

i am curious as to why you stated that the audio card could be the issue as well, how does an audio card cause a system wide crash/freeze?

I have the same problem and did the drivers help?
Are you using 32 or 64 bit?

64bit, and like i said, updating to the 301.24 beta drivers fixed my crashing issues it hasn't crashed my computer since i updated the driver

ArmA, upon release had major issues with Realtek Sound be it on-board or external, to the point where it could, not always mind you, but could bring a system to a freeze crash. Other game's have had issues with dedicated sound cards also in the past. Glad to see that the driver's worked out for you. :)



That's a different error to the one here but the answer is a simple one. Your Graphics card only supports DirectX 9.0c not the required DirectX10/11. I'm afraid your unable to play the game with that card and would need to purchase a new one.

I'd like to point out the minimum specification's for the game, which you should always check before buying any game.



The bold section is the important bit. Sorry your just out of luck on that one.

I am having problems with SEV2 as well.
It will freeze totally. Keyboard does nothing. Even pressing the reset button has no effect.
I have to hold the power button for 4 secs to turn PC off, then I turn it on again.
I can be playing for 10 minutes or even for a hour, and then it freezes.
It's the only game I have that does this.
I have done a OS reinstall. No change.

My system is a
Intel Core i7 3930K Six core CPU
Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 Intel Socket 2011 motherboard
32 Gb DDR3 Ram
Asus AMD Radeon HD7970 3Gb Video Card driver version is 12.6
Intel 480 Gb SSD
WD 2Tb HDD
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

Hope someone can help as I love playing this game.
Regards
Mark

These are the same issue i have been having
I have been trying to resolve them with the support guys, but so far its still not fixed (and they seem to have stopped talking to me now)

I have tried new GPU drivers, new sounds drivers, without sound, full reinstall of game, full reinstall of Steam, turned off Virtu Lucid graphics, everything apart from a Windows reinstall.

Really hope they can find a fix for this soon :(

good luck!