Well, as far as I know this is not a general issue. Thus it's a specific issue with your combination of software, hardware and settings somehow. Now Battlefield 3 has had quite a lot of different obscure specific issue, more than most titles, probably due to the game using a new graphics engine and backend and the fact that it was rushed a bit.
Now, lets see if we can fix your problem, have been in a somewhat similar situation myself. Here's my suggestions for you:
Hope to hear back from you on how it went 🙂 Good luck!
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-Carbonic
Thanks for the reply,
Like I listed in my initial post, I have already tried all of these steps. I just bought my new videocard and ram and like I said I tested those with games like Crysis 3 in very high settings for long hours. Not a single issue. GPU heat is 55-56C max which is around 10-12 degrees below the maximum it should be, so this tells me there is no problem on that side. Also I have pretty decent Zalman cooler spesifically for my CPU and again, my CPU heat is nowhere near maximum.
I already updated everything on my PC and setup a new OS so there is no problem on that either. I downloaded PB, Realtek drivers etc. from their own websites... This is not a problem related to any sort of drivers, OS etc. It is all tested and newly installed many times.
Any other suggestions?
In all fairness, no you have no tried it all.
Testing in Crysis 3 is not a proper test, it doesn't use the same amount of memory and doesn't use the memory in the same way, the same can be said about the CPU. You need to do proper tests, the whole "other games work" argument will not make BF3 work.
Also, just because the build-in motherboard temperature probe says a temperature, it can't measure the entire CPU, thus a proper CPU test with 100% utilization over some hours is needed as well.
This problem can easily be related to drivers, you still havn't confirmed that you have tried BOTH the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer AND the chipset developer for both your chipset+network adapter+soundcard.
Have you tried downgrading your gfx driver to an older version? The newest driver should have some problems.
Please accept solutions if they are correct and press the XP button if somebody helped you.
Cheers
-Carbonic
Well sorry but you really did not read my initial post.
I have been trying for weeks maybe even months with numerous different methods. I have been trying with my old rig and my new rig and I have been using my whole setup for very intense processes not only gaming including Vray, MentalRay renders, all sorts of simulations, 3dMax etc etc. Again, "not a single issue". To be more spesific (for your %100 utilization idea) I know I left my PC on for 15-20 or so days to render stuff nonstop with full CPU affinity and full ram allocation( this is when I purchased a better cooler for my CPU). No overheating, no crash, no random resets, no power failure, no nothing. I ran benchmarks, tried many different methods to see if there is any sort of failure. I have not spotted a single hardware failure. Like I said back in the days ( I do not know the spesific version of BF3) I reduced my sound quality to cd quality via control panel and it fixed the problem for a while. But I can not accurately tell what happened after, It all started again and still is happening.
I believe you assume that I tested this and that and started posting here which I understand but trust me it really is not the case. I am well aware different software use hardware in different ways but again I tried a lot of stuff and I mean a lot.
Both my old ram and new ram were tested with memtest etc and no problems whatsoever. I have tried realtek drivers from ASUS website for my motherboard spesific drivers which is P6T. And yes I also have tried drivers from Realtek's own website and downloaded PB from punkbusters own website as well. I also tried re-installing, uninstalling and re-installing PB thru "pbsvc.exe", still no progress, still freezing after 15-16 minutes. I tried a variety of videocard drivers both for GTX285 and GTX670. It did not help at all. I have also made a research and NVIDIA guys even say that the current driver version (314.22) is the least problematic for BF3 which I am currently using.
I also tried what was just suggested about reducing the CPU allocation to 1 instead of all cores. I did it the way it was suggested and I also tried another method where I set BF3.exe affinity to a single core. Game ran extremely slow in both cases on low settings and again 15-16 minutes, same freezing, same problem...
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