Fear and 7800GT Lockups

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Hi people.. I just bought this game.. I'm loving every second of it. But I seem to get hard lock ups every once in a while. I thought it was related to my video card's overclock at first, but I set them back to stock and I still get the lockups. My overclocks worked like a charm in every other game. I dont think its the temperatures, I have excellent airflow in my case. My power supply's voltages are dead-on (Fortron 500W). I'm currently using the 81.84's.

By the way, It freezes in the performance test too, no other game I have freezes like this. I'm lost. :confused:
 
Oh.. forgot to add, I've already patched it, I get the same freezing problem. i can run the game at 1280X1024,everything set to maximum, 2XAA and 8XAF, with soft shadows, and I get ~48Fps average, minimum of low 30's. Still locking up though :(
 
Wel... I'm not sure how soft shadows are supposed to look like, but the shadows of the people are still 'edgy'.. they were like this before too, I'm not sure if that correct. I got a performance boost for sure on the test, bah... I have to go to school now though, I'll give it a more thorough test when I get home.
 
i have a xfx 7800gt, and i get random lockups for about 5-10 secconds and then it just back to normal. Im running it at stock speeds also.
 
If it isn't an environmental issue(heat or power), I suspect the .85 drivers will fix it for you.

I played for about 8 hours without any lockups last night. I've never had a lockup in the game, which is pretty amazing, when I compare it to other games I play.
 
Triz08 said:
i have a xfx 7800gt, and i get random lockups for about 5-10 secconds and then it just back to normal. Im running it at stock speeds also.
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I bet that's the copy protection issue.. sounds excatly like it... try and fund a nocd hack for it.. there was one mentioned in this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=965676

around page 3 or 4 I think...
 
Well... did some reading, and it turns out the lockups come from the volumetric lighting, I have no idea what that does but I turned it onto medium and it seems to not lock up anymore.

I also finally got soft shadows to actually work and the performance loss for the quality just isn't worth it, I'm back to 2XAA everything on maximum at 55FPS+ :D
 
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