this is something i'm getting as well. can go for a couple sorties, or less than one pass, and it then it goes to a bluescreen shut down. damn thing goes off too quickly to see the rror message, any tips on where to find the crash log?

was doing it before patch as well, so don't think it's related to that, nor does it appear to be related to settings as it does it whatever they are (running models high, VE and decals medium, everything else low or off, res is 1280x1024, specs as below)

I don't even get bluescreen - straight to reboot.

Mine was doing it before patch too, but not nearly as frequently.

I'm convinced it's a GPU temperature problem, but something is working the GPU really, really hard, and more so since the patch.

Anyway for the Windows Event Viewer, you just need to press F1 whilst in your Desktop and search for Event Viewer (for Windows 7, and apologies if you knew this already and were looking for something else lol).

There's probably an easier way, but I don't use it very often.

Post the results here and somebody will be able to diagnose the problem, I trust.

Good luck.

R

cheers for that, didn't have a clue what it was or where to find it

system error log is

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0x8ad3f002, 0x00000000, 0xafa114f6, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini041111-01.dmp.

not sure what i can open the dmp file with though...

the erro that follows directly after this is

The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
nvatabus

Hhhhmmm...found this:

http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=74324.0

But I think we're in the realms of needing smarter advice than what I can provide here!

R

Sounds like you're getting somewhere Russkly. Am having same issues so I guess we're going to have to reduce the visuals to a level where we can play for some time without the GPU overheating until they bring out a patch to (hopefully...) fix it.

It's a real pity though because dog-fighting with all the fx/damage levels at max looks very realistic grrr!

I don't think the flight dynamics are that realistic but I'm used to FSX and X Plane..

Adam

You might be right Russkly.
I repeat test again and no blue screens have been flying about 1 hour (until now never flew so long without errors).
I checked the maximum temperature and were 80 ° Celsius.

Right, after some more testing (delayed when a Firefox-inspired System Restore screwed up Steam so that I couldn't get into CoD!) it is clear that CoD is baking my GPU.

First off: GPU controlled by ASUS SmartDoctor software. HyperDrive on but set to Cooling mode, not to 3D Games mode. Fan on Auto. So, GPU will be driven to run cool rather than run performance.

I turned the res down to 1600x1200 and flew the 6 Hurris vs 6 109s over water quick mission without problems (at game settings posted earlier in this thread).

Hoorah!

Then got cocky and tried the Hurris vs Ju-87s over Manston quick mission at 1680x1050.

No problems over water, but as soon as I came over land to head home - bang!!!! PC reboots itself.

SmartDoctor doesn't have a log facility like MSI Afterburner, but, having used the latter, I am sure that the GPU was maxed out at that point and simply rebooted the PC to avoid heat damage.

I'm not sure what to do now - I'm loathe to turn the settings down further, because they're hardly maxed out, and my system's not that bad (is it?). And I don't really want to install some water-cooling system for 1 game - RoF never gives me this problem on pretty high settings for example, and nor does Arma 2.

Any thoughts? Will any of the upcoming patches address this; or is it something I'm doing wrong; or is my GPU simply too wimpy?

Shame, because @ 1900x1200 at the game settings above, it looks wonderful.

R

Russkly
It is very difficult for me understand inglish. When you say:
"(delayed when a Firefox-inspired System Restore screwed up Steam so that I couldn't get into CoD!)"
You meant that you make sistem restore?
If this is correct, then please, make a graphic card log (gpu-z is good) and check clocks too.
Before the blue screen problem solution, i did a restore sistem.
I'm not very sure even the problem is the temperature, then i repeated again the test, and the surprise was that when prior to the restore, the graphics card was everything 100%, then now it does not exceed 60% (before flying with all the options middle, 100% graphic card working, and after, witch all options to full without loss of fps's or stutters increased after 1 minute).
I think there is something that escapes us. Visor events have launcher and net 4.0 errors even. The difference is that now i don´t have reboots or blue screens :confused:
Thanks Russkly

Sorry for the lack of clarity, Vencejo.

What happened was that I had an Adobe Flash plug-in problem with Firefox 3.6 so installed Firefox 4. After that Firefox crashed every time I tried to open it. So eventually I did a system restore, after which Steam would not work - kept saying that it was connecting to my account and then nothing would happen. I then spent all day uninstalling and reinstalling Steam until it worked.

In short, the crashes have nothing to do with the system restore - they were happening before that.

So, where are we now?

I'm now settled at 1680x1050 with settings as above except for buildings now very low and shading low.

I played the bomber intercept over London QM with no problems, and even turned shading up to medium, because it looks better than at low.

Then tried the dogfight QM with Ju-88s, 109s, Spits & Hurris (over water) - crash/reboot just a couple of minutes in.

Using GPU-Z (thx for the tip) the temps are up at 75c max (which shouldn't be a huge problem) with the fan running at max. Strangely, according to GPU-Z the GPU loading doesn't appear to be maxed out (although difficult to tell from the *.txt file) but runs at about 30%. Core clock, memory clock and shader clock are all maxed out, however, so I don't understand why GPU load would only be 30%.

So, I'm perplexed.

I can't really play the game, though, because it's clearly not good for the PC to be rebooting itself - this indicates major trauma, no?

Also, it means restarting everything (TrackIR, plug in joystick, disable anti-virus, open Steam, run game, select mission, wait for loading, etc.).

Anybody please help me understand what is going wrong?

Am I just being too ambitious with the settings?

R

Thanks Russkly.

I do not know why the problems have now disappeared after doing a system restore. I cross my fingers.
If it's any help, the only difference between before and after the restore is that now, in uninstall / change program windows, I have only this:

Microsoft visual c + + redistributable 10.0.30319 2010x86

When before had two visual c + + 2010 for to uninstall / change. Sorry I did not remember what exactly.


Ah, i forget it. I use a new controls perfil too.