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devilwashere

03-30-2008, 03:11 PM

Hi guys,I have searched the forums before posting this thread. I found a lot of posts about rebooting, yet none seemd to solve it for me.I am running a very powerful computer:QX9650 OC'd to 3.6Ghz780i board8Gb of DDR2 RAM2x 9800GX2SB X-Fi ProVista 64I installed EQ2 yesterday and it runs beautifuly only it makes my computer reboot inconsistently. Sometimes I can play for an hour with no incident, and sometimes it happens within 30 seconds after loging in.I am playing on high settings with full shadows and lights on 1920x1080.I have been using the WHQL 174.53 drivers released by Nvidia when it happend and decided to upgrade to the beta 174.74 ones and it still happens.I read about heat that might be causing that. I ran Everest while playing EQ and noticed that when playing EQ my graphic cards get to 70c. Looks hot but I am not sure if this is the cause. I play Crysis for hours on high settings and never had a crash.This is very frustrating and I don't really know what to do anymore. Any suggestion will be more than welcome. Please let me know if you want me to post any other data here. Thank you for your time.

Kir

03-30-2008, 05:41 PM

eh thats 160ish degrees F thats pretty hot.<div></div><div>Also try not overclocking your CPU. Even though you can run crysis for hours on end, Crysis I am guessing isn't cpu bound for a lot of its rendering like eq2 is for shadows, flora, water, etc. </div><div></div><div>Are you OC'ing your video card too? Also, check out your driver version for the X-fi, I have been reading a lot of complaints with reboots in regards to that card and eq2 using one of the older driver versions.. which for the life of me I can't remember the version release.</div>

devilwashere

03-30-2008, 07:40 PM

Hey man,Thanks for the feedback!I cancelled all the OCing I did, it was only for the CPU and memory and EQ2 runs smoothly.. no more crashes.I think that the problem wasn't with the GPUs but rather with the motherboard temprature... After the adjustments I made, the GPUs temp is around the same and there are no more crashes.I am kind of dissapointed that I can't OC if I want to play EQ2, or actually, maybe find a better cooling solution for the motherboard.See you online on Everfrost!