Frequent post-patch crashes/reboots from game

[Russkly]

Originally Posted by E69_vencejo

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
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