COD4 and BO2 crashing

jthill909

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Hello,

Been very frustrated lately with COD on pc and the problems I've had trying to play cod4 and bo2. Both games fail with the same crash where the game will freeze, but the game will continue behind the frozen image. I'm able to alt+tab out most of the time, but this is very annoying and occurs anywhere from 1 hour of playing or even 2 mins of playing.

I was able to sort-of fix the problem by disabling the steam in-game overlay and this sorted out the problem for about two days, and then it went back to what it was doing before. So annoying.

Specs:(should be in sig)
-3570k
-6870
-8gb 1333 ram
-z77 Extreme 4
-xfx core 750w
-500gb HD
-13.1 drivers
 
Solution
Maybe cpu unstability? Did you stress test it? Did you oc your gpu? When oc gpu, results from stress test such as furmark could varies and when you game it crashes.

jthill909

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My 3570k is overclocked to 4.4, but I've run many custom tests on prime95 for hours, passed multiple tests of the Intel Burn test, and have been using it overclocked since the beginning of January with no problems. I do have my 6870 overclocked, but I can revert it back to stock. I stressed it with the built-in benchmark on Afterburner which is essentially Furmark and it was stable. I'll try reverting both the cpu and gpu back to stock, but I don't think that that's the problem because this doesn't happen with any other game, except for cod.
 

jthill909

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Well, tried bo2 with everything set to stock and I was able to play for about an hour without any problems. So, now I'm thinking that it actually might have been the CPU all along. I'll just keep it at stock for the time being. Thanks for the suggestion Pete!