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August 4, 2014 10:07:56 PM

When I launch and play a game, I'll be fine for a few minutes, but then the game just crashes, there's no error log or anything, it just crashes. I don't know what to do other than assume I have a malfunction on one of my components, or maybe compatibility issues. I never crashed when I first got my pc (about a year ago) but now it started acting up and I don't know how to fix it.
Specs:
Intel i5 3570
Asus GTX 660 DirectCU II OC
Asus P8Z77-V LE plus
Corsair Vengeance 2x4 gb 1600mhz ddr3
Corsair AX750 gold plus
Western Digital Black 1tb
NZXT Phantom 410 black (Not sure if it matters really)
Windows 7 ultimate 64bit

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August 4, 2014 10:13:37 PM

Go to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Event Viewer and look for the warning or error for your game. Do this as soon as your game crashes and paste what you find here.
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August 4, 2014 10:16:49 PM

Is the game crashing and you get thrown back to windows or is the whole computer crashing and restarting. Any game at all? Pls be more specific.
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August 6, 2014 12:52:56 PM

Kris Degruytere said:
Is the game crashing and you get thrown back to windows or is the whole computer crashing and restarting. Any game at all? Pls be more specific.

It brings me back to windows and just acts like I was never playing games in the first place.

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August 6, 2014 12:54:22 PM

modernwar99 said:
Go to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Event Viewer and look for the warning or error for your game. Do this as soon as your game crashes and paste what you find here.

Will do, and thanks for telling me where I can find logs for the computer...
Here's the error message:
Faulting application name: bf4.exe, version: 1.3.2.3825, time stamp: 0x53a4d82a
Faulting module name: bf4.exe, version: 1.3.2.3825, time stamp: 0x53a4d82a
Exception code: 0xc0000005
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August 9, 2014 6:20:09 PM

I found out that my ram was the problem. When it was crashing, the ram was set in the second color set, so I just switched it over to the closest color to the cpu, and made sure that the ram wasn't over clocked in the bios. I also switched my motherboard from TPU back to EPU... Not sure if that does anything, but I fixed my game crashes. So for future refferences, make sure your ram sticks are in the closer colors to the cpu (Ram, no ram, Ram, no ram)
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August 9, 2014 7:10:35 PM

TPU is Asus version of a performance modifier, basically it's voltage and clock controls for over clocking on a z board. Since you have a locked 3570, you can't over clock other than a small bump in buss clock. This bump has the unfortunate side affect of also over clocking the ram at the same time. Assuming your ram was under XMP profile with stock timings and voltage, it's already overclocked, but within specs. Now add further OC from the TPU, and what you get is ram that under normal usage is quite stable, but under the conditions bf4 imposes, becomes unstable.

EPU is Asus energy management. It allows you to go 'green' and set cpu usage as low as 30%, useless on a pc used for gaming.
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August 13, 2014 10:39:42 AM

Karadjgne said:
TPU is Asus version of a performance modifier, basically it's voltage and clock controls for over clocking on a z board. Since you have a locked 3570, you can't over clock other than a small bump in buss clock. This bump has the unfortunate side affect of also over clocking the ram at the same time. Assuming your ram was under XMP profile with stock timings and voltage, it's already overclocked, but within specs. Now add further OC from the TPU, and what you get is ram that under normal usage is quite stable, but under the conditions bf4 imposes, becomes unstable.

EPU is Asus energy management. It allows you to go 'green' and set cpu usage as low as 30%, useless on a pc used for gaming.


So should I put it back to TPU?

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August 14, 2014 6:39:10 PM

I would leave both off. Having either on especially the epu can hurt performance, and i wouldn't try to 'supercharge' your cpu with yhe tpu either. Messing with the buss clock on Intel cpu's is not really advised. Best to leave it set at default 100.00

I would reset everything to default factory settings then play. If you still have crashes, then its easier to solve, than trying to second guess what settings you have changed
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