BF2S Forums No crashes for 80+ hrs, crashes right away now

With the info given, it looks like your video card fried. Was it overclocked? And do you have a good airflow in your system?

Thanks everybody, a bad video card is my primary suspect. I have not seen the problem outside of BF2 - BF 1942 still works, but it doesn't tax the video card the way BF2 does.

Nothing on the system is overclocked, and airflow is very good (3 case fans, cool room).

I'm going to swap out the video card and see if the problem goes away.

well to make sure its your video card thats broken:

*Play other games that requires some of ur Graphic card
*check ur CTRL+ALT+DEL (Taskmanager) and look at the memory usages of ur video card driver

if he keeps crashing more often dont waste time of solving it urself it only can make it worse take it to a shop
(in case u think..hell it cant get worse then this Format ur pc and reinstall ur OS and drivers to make sure its not an software conflict)

go to ur system properties : pick the icon that says System and turn off the Windows XP (or do u have another OS) that he reboots if an fatal error ocures ...so in place of the pc that reboots automatic, windows XP will show a Screen of Death...and maybe there u will find something about whats going on.
Question : if u rebooted will it show an field that say that XP occured a fatal error and tried to fix it with under the option to send a report to Microsoft or to show more info about the error that occured.

My own experience with video cards :
Geforce FX5500 256 mb - Doom 3 i was playing and suddently he rebooted...and after that it just went point black..no more screen - video card broken
Geforce FX5700LE 256 Mb - well i was happy with it ...going fine...after 4 months my XP suddently crashes under the game MOHAA . wtf...hmmm rebooted and tried again...all the other games just crashed my XP in about 5 - 25 minutes... - Problem video card broken and the shop told it was my fault coz it seemed i overloaded it...right..with a game from 2001 bullshit i made an complain about that shop and as result they gave me an Geforce FX5700LE 256 TD (256 Ram) brand new and it stills works so i,m happy

i think the best advice is : Bring the PC to the shop and let them look at it coz i,m pretty sure that ur video card is broken

It was the video card.

I NEVER take my PC to a shop because I know more about PCs than they do at most shops.

Leatherface-TCM wrote:

Glad you got that solved - so what video card is going into your PC to replace busted one?

An Nvidia 6600 GT, just like the one that went bad. The first one was from eVGA, and the replacement is from PNY, but they clearly both came off the same assembly line!

I read all the reviews I could get my hands on before I bought the 6600 GT, and it really is the sweet-spot for a high performance video card at a reasonable price.

Lt.Maverick|Lw| wrote:

Ive got the giggabyte 6600gt card,good card but im considering a 6800gt or 7800gt for xmas

What do you expect to get from the 6800gt or 7800gt that you don't get from the 6600gt? Yes, I know that those cards are 2x-3x faster, but what does that actually give you in-game?

TriggerHappy998 wrote:

Vic42 wrote:

Lt.Maverick|Lw| wrote:

Ive got the giggabyte 6600gt card,good card but im considering a 6800gt or 7800gt for xmas

What do you expect to get from the 6800gt or 7800gt that you don't get from the 6600gt? Yes, I know that those cards are 2x-3x faster, but what does that actually give you in-game?

Well for one they're future-proof. You won't need an upgrade for a few years with them. With all the new high quality games being produced nowadays your 6600 will soon be ancient and out-of-date. Getting a 7800 is a great investment and I highly recommend it.

"A few years"??? No disrespect intended, but I think this is one of the great fallacies of computer gaming hardware. Buying a $400 video card instead of a $200 card is NOT going to double the time to obsolescence.

Most people don't have unlimited bucks to spend, so getting the best value for their dollar is important. No video card out today is going to be current technology even two years from today! A new Direct-X version, a new PC bus technology, a new memory technology, or even a new video interface can make your current card a legacy. The leading edge will soon be multiple cores per card, something you can't even buy today.

What you want is a card that supports the latest Direct-X version and shader models and performs well on current games, with a little margin left for the next set of games. Once games start coming out that use features your current card does not have, you start thinking about replacing it.

Better to get a $200 video card every year or a $300 video card every 18 months than a $600 video card and expect it to last three years!

Of course, if bragging rights to the hottest hardware is what is really important, buying just enough to get the job done won't cut it.