4 years ago
BF2042 Still crashing
The game is still intermittantly crashing. Especially when I alt+tab the game sometimes. It does it when theres a lot going on in screen as well like a big firefight, or fire from the rocket explos...
@Rokebo73 I'm not saying it has a PageFile problem (file error or something), I'm just saying that Windows thinks its physical Ram is not big enough and it needs to manually increase the paging memory (pagefile) to 10 GB, then the game should stop auto-closing. I had the same problem with Battlefield V when I only had 16 GB of ram and typing in the pagefile size manually solved my problem. Just because a game physically only uses, say, 13gb of ram out of 16 at the moment doesn't mean the system thinks that's enough. If Windows sees a threat that the whole computer might "freeze" when there is a high probability that the RAM reaches 95% or 100% usage for a while, Windows automatically closes the most demanding application, which in this case is BF2042.
If he overclocked the ram via the XMP profile (manufacturer's factory) then there is no risk of it being overclocked, lowering the frequency of the ram will only make the computer less efficient and the problem will still remain. Have him set the pagefile to 10 GB and see if it helped, it helped me with Battlefield V.
Let him see if a larger pagefile size helps him, if it doesn't then we'll keep thinking, it can't hurt to try. Just as a location don't choose an SSD as that could end badly xd
If you are worried that some of his components have too high clocks, then have him do a stress test of the computer, if the stress test passes, then he is ok with the clocks.
For your peace of mind, do what @Rokebo73 wrote, which is to check the temperatures while gaming. The best thing to do is to run HWINFO as described by Robeko and save the results to a file, then in case something happens, you will have everything saved in the file.
I use GenericLogViewer_v6.4 to open HWINFO files.
@Rokebo73 regarding your way to lower the temperature of the CPU, wasn't it better to just buy some serious external cooling ? I'm using Silentium PC Fortis 5 and my CPU doesn't exceed 65 degrees, I've also mounted high speed Arctic fans in the case to keep the GPU cooler.
But as I wrote, first try setting the Pagefile to 10 GB, then to 20 GB, if that doesn't help, it'll keep thinking. A large Pagefile size won't slow down your computer, because PageFile is only used if there isn't enough physical Ram memory.
@eggeggsir Once you see that a pagefile with a size of 10 GB (10240 MB) has solved the problem, you can successively reduce it until the game automatically closes to the desktop again. Later you can buy more Ram and the Pagefile will be redundant, but first see if this helps you.
@Rokebo73 ok ,I always prefer the easiest and safest solutions. You can always set something incorrectly in the BIOS by mistake and then let the service technicians get paid for keeping your computer for a few hours just to find out that the BIOS settings have been restored to factory defaults and not to change anything in it 🙂
If he use stock clocks and the XMP profile, there is a very small probability that the BIOS selects the wrong voltages, etc., so it is better not to touch it. If you set the RAM clocks larger than recommended by the manufacturer, then lowering the RAM clocks will help.
@eggeggsir Let me know if the PageFile method solved your problem with the game crashing to the desktop and if you can use it, because, as I wrote, if you choose the pagefile location as an SSD drive, the storage cells will wear out quickly, which means the drive will need to be replaced quickly. I recommend only setting Pagefile to the HDD.
Regards.