Solved: Opps... It broke its damn self..... Blue Freeze

[lindaetterlee]

Ok after my DAC errors last week. I did a complete reinstall. Used the automatic remove then manually made sure to delete EVERYTHING including documents Ea Games folder, and all reg entries.  Reinstalled In order of product release. Patched each EP and SP after its install.  Game loaded fine. I remembered I have a 1680x 1050 native monitor res, so i used jordi's mini tutorial to edit the graphics file. Again Everything loaded fine. No stalls Etc. NO CC at this point. Not even camera mods. Upon playing the game I began getting this Blue screen Freeze. Its not the blue screen of death but I'm sure they are in the same family.

Basicly the picture goes from amazing graphics to a solid blue wait screen for roughly 20 seconds to 1 minute every 5 minutes or so. I have 3.5 gb ram. raedon ait 1950 pro with 512 ram,  win xp.  I've never had this problem.


I have removed securom. I have checkd for virus's and malware.

I am runing from the no cd exe updated for most bv patch *gamecopyworld.com*.

I have also changed my default HIGH settings down to ugly nothing and stil get the blue freeze. Can i get any help?

[lindaetterlee]

Anyone???

[KellyQ]

Is this with BV? Do you by chance have a Nvidia card?

I can run all EPs up to BV but because of whatever conflict there is between that EP and Nvidia, I get the blue screen you describe, a black screen or it shuts off my monitor completely (even though the computer is still running, the monitor goes to "sleep".)

I have been unable to find any kind of fix for it and don't think I will at this point. I'm just crossing my fingers that EA figures out a patch for this problem. Please note that I'm not holding my breath.

[jolrei]

I read specs as having an ATI video card.  Might your card be having difficulties with your selected resolution?  Whatever the native dimension of your monitor, have you tried running the game with an unmodified graphics file at one of the standard resolutions (most ATI cards allow a range of options)?

[lindaetterlee]

Smitfraud-c.... A ASSHOLE of a malware.  I  couldn't get over this being a new problem after my game never had problems. So i kept digging. Looking at system files created within the last few days and then googling and googling and googling until i found references to the smitfraud-c. IT took less than 5 minutes to clean after that. It hadn't popped on any of my virus/spyware scanners.

[KellyQ]

I read specs as having an ATI video card.  Might your card be having difficulties with your selected resolution?  Whatever the native dimension of your monitor, have you tried running the game with an unmodified graphics file at one of the standard resolutions (most ATI cards allow a range of options)?

Oh, duh. I don't know how I overlooked that.

[ScoobyDoo]

A Radeon 1950 pro should handle that resolution without THAT much problems.