I have never had this before. I was playing Battlefield 3 (skyping at same time) and all of a sudden my game freezes... then my PC starts buzzing real loudly and my monitor loses signal. I had no idea what was happening and I let it go for maybe 5 minutes and ended up shutting it down. Any idea what could have happened? It's a prebuilt with a HD5670, AMD Athlon X4 620, 4GB RAM
[QUOTE=oldage;33565438]I have never had this before. I was playing Battlefield 3 (skyping at same time) and all of a sudden my game freezes... then my PC starts buzzing real loudly and my monitor loses signal. I had no idea what was happening and I let it go for maybe 5 minutes and ended up shutting it down. Any idea what could have happened? It's a prebuilt with a HD5670, AMD Athlon X4 620, 4GB RAM[/QUOTE]
It sounds like your PC can barely handle it and is freezing and shutting itself down, and have you always run skype AND BF3 at the same time?
Skype is hardly demanding...
Strikes me as overheating, install HWMONITOR, start it up and then run bf3/skype for 10 mins. Then exit the game and give us a screenshot (it shows us max temps).
[editline]4th December 2011[/editline]
Note that your rig is kinda pushing it with regards to BF3's sysreqs.
Buzzing... Faulty PSU trying to crank out it's maximum wattage but can't? What brand is the PSU?
[QUOTE=Coridan;33618193]Buzzing...?[/QUOTE]
Maybe he ment that buzzing that usually comes from speakers when you get bluescreen as it repeats the last few ms of sound that was being played before the error that caused the bluescreen.
I used to have that problem with Bad Company 2. Sometimes I had x116 BSODs after. Turns out it was my graphics card being defect.
I've also heard about solutions such as getting a sound card, that is, not an integrated one.
If you're using the Motherboard "onboard" sound chip, and it's a Realtek... there is a driver issue:
Realtek's sound driver: [url]http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3...4347718379170/[/url]
Option 1: Disable Realtek onboard sound chip in BIOS and use USB or PCI audio add-in card/device.
Option 2: Follow directions in the link above and disable exclusive mode in the driver settings.
Bugging me for ages since I upgraded from a VIA-based onboard sound mobo to a Realtek-based one.
Also affects other punkbuster enabled games like APB Reloaded
I wouldn't say it's his system "pushing" BF3's specs - mine ran BF3 on all low fine with a 4350.
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