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    I got this three times as my game completely locked up, and freezing my computer in the process, it always seems to happen when I go into wide open places where the sky is fading into view. It also appears to randomly freeze the game and computer up, making the game unplayable.

    Please help.

    I have a petty high-end system that runs the newer games at almost max quality without a problem.
    Last edited by Enever; December 31st, 2009 at 06:37 PM. Reason: System, new info

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    What effect does adjusting your video options seem to have? At what levels do you have them set? Especially view range, quality, shadows...?

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    I seem to be having the same problem. I am able to get into the game but shortly after everything has loaded the game freezes up and crashes my computer or the game freezes and closes on its own. I haven't changed any settings in the game or on my computer.The morning of the first day that it happened, I was able to get into to the game and play no problem, but that afternoon the problems all started. Believe it was on Saturday. Any ideas?
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    Be sure to have the latest drivers for your GPU. Maybe do a full patch of the game on launch. You may need to completely reinstall the game and see if that helps.
    Another possibility would be to run the game in compatability mode for either XP or Vista. Try out one or the other and see if it runs any better.
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    I wonder do you have an ATI 4, 5 series card? If you do some hunting around you will find out there's lots of problems with them right now. Flickering screen, Grey screen of death, vertical stripes, lock up, crash to desktop, system crashes etc, those types of things. The rumours are that the card's initial voltage settings for the idle state is far too low. More rumours suggest ATI never tested these cards thoroughly in their eagerness to make money.

    A,D forums are riddled with disatisfied, ranting customers.

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    i'm haveing a similar problem on my brand new computer, it has an i3-540 3.06 ghz proccesser with built in Graphics card and this game on max settings and never runs hot but 3 days ago i crashed and everytime i run it, it stops respondig just as soon as everything loads i deleted the cache manually and it worked again for a hours and then crashed again wtf? i'm running windows 7 64bit and it worked perfectly for a long time until now i need help!

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    I and a friend had this problem, full freeze and a jumble of colors on the screen. I had as bad video card in a brand new computer too. I did all kinds of test and it said it was fine but when I removed the card 1 of the connecting pin (strip) was missing. So made it a random error that just got worst till I could not connect anymore.

    Her card was dying then died. hehe But we were both having similar problem.
    If you have or can borrow another card, try that. That may be easier then reinstalling the whole computer.
    Good luck

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    i know it's not my graphics...it's something else...game is still not responding after it loads

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    It's getting worse it's not the cache as i delete it everytime i log off, but when the name of he place i'm at shows at start up...that's when the game becomes unresponsive the music keeps playing but that
    s it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Image View Post
    I and a friend had this problem, full freeze and a jumble of colors on the screen. I had as bad video card in a brand new computer too. I did all kinds of test and it said it was fine but when I removed the card 1 of the connecting pin (strip) was missing. So made it a random error that just got worst till I could not connect anymore.

    Her card was dying then died. hehe But we were both having similar problem.
    If you have or can borrow another card, try that. That may be easier then reinstalling the whole computer.
    Good luck
    if it were my Graphics card then my Procceser would have died with it as the Procceser is ALSO the graphics card...and i sure hope you had a warranty on your graphics card..
    Last edited by Hawkman007; August 16th, 2010 at 06:53 PM. Reason: spell check

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkman007 View Post
    if it were my Graphics card then my Procceser would have died with it as the Procceser is ALSO the graphics card...and i sure hope you had a warranty on your graphics card..
    If you have a integrated graphics chipset then it is most likely part of the South Bridge. This is separate from the CPU.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enever View Post
    I got this three times as my game completely locked up, and freezing my computer in the process, it always seems to happen when I go into wide open places where the sky is fading into view. It also appears to randomly freeze the game and computer up, making the game unplayable.

    Please help.

    I have a petty high-end system that runs the newer games at almost max quality without a problem.
    Have you tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling the game?
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    I can't send in ticket because apparently i don't exist on the support site...*sigh* I tried 20 times to log in there...that's whole the reason i don't send in support tickets.
    Last edited by Hawkman007; August 16th, 2010 at 06:48 PM. Reason: Misspelling

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