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March 27, 2014 12:07:52 PM

hey guys, I am getting problems playing metro last light. I was just playing it there on medium settings no problem 60fps! so thought I would treat my eyes to high settings see what its like, and was getting 60fps with little jumps very playable, anyhow this lasted about 5-10mins then my pc cut off with what I would describe as a loud fan noise and crash, so reboot system and get this message "Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 124
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: FFFFFA800E47D8F8
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\032714-19515-01.dmp
C:\Users\Sean\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-30342-0.sysdata.xml

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today I overclocked my fx 4170 from 4.2ghz to 4.3ghz with amd overdrive, I overclocked via (Preference's quick setup and when from default to level 1. that gave me a 4.3 overclock) system seems stable and tried valley benchmark with out a problem, so then tried metro last light, was running fine on medium settings as I have said but as soon as I put it on high settings I get a crash! my system settings are as follows Mobo gigabyte GA 78LMT USB3 CPU AMD FX 4170 4.2 BLACK EDISION, EVGA GTX 650 TI BOOST 2G SC DDR5, 16GB OF DDR3 RAM, CIT 650W PSU, can anyone tell me why this is happing? thanks in advance sean

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March 27, 2014 1:06:55 PM

I would suspect the following in order
A) MLL is high demanding so being OC on HIGH settings causes the 'break point' more then medium settings. Try without OC and see if you stably can play on high. If so then you need to reexam the OC settings to lower.
B) Overheating inside (see below)
C) 650ti unable to handle the settings graphically (can check on canirunit.com)

Some Basics we may want to try first to eliminate "the usual suspects":

Open Computer, Can Air dust out the bunnies and use paint brush on the vents, coolers, fans, etc.
Download and run SPECCY, copy and paste the first tab to show your idle temps
Download and run MSI Afterburner, run some of the games that crash, what temps are you getting when underload?

Did you install all Windows Updates? Including options except BING? Check them and repeat till ALL are installed.
Download and run Slim Drivers, install all the latest updates but you don't need to reboot until you do the last update

Remove whatever AV your using and go to www.filehippo.com and download AVAST! or AVG and do a full system scan - this repeatedly has resolved alot of people issue relying on MS Essentials.
Download Malwarebytes do a full system scan (AV doesn't pick up alot of malware) - this resolved almost ALL other similiar posts to date as most had Malware the AV didn't pick up.
Repeat the AV/Malware scans till the system comes up clean.

Let us know the results of each.
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March 27, 2014 4:12:27 PM

Thanks for the reply! It was my gpu overheating that was shutting down my system, i over-clocked my gpu and had a bad fan curve, it got to 90 degrees and bluescreened. Managed to get my fx 4170 to 4.4ghz stable and took the over clock off my gtx 650ti, its amazing what a cpu OC can do, before i was getting a bottleneck, OCing the cpu has fixed this and gave me stable fps on high settings on metro last light, that has surprised me! I was going to spend alot of money upgrading parts at the weekend but seems i wont have to now! Happy chappy :) 
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