Screen Freeze

[therealmaze]

Hello, I'm having some problems with the game. After a short amount of time, usually between 5 mins to an hour my screen will either freeze up, showing the game still, but I can't move my mouse/do anything, or it will show a dark navy blueish-black screen. Either way, the result is the same. I have to restart my PC. I've seen a few threads of people having the same problems, all of whom seem to have fairly high end PCs, and I think all of them have a Radeon GPU in the 6k series.
My specs are :

CPU : Sandy Bridge 2500k unlocked, overclocked to 4.5ghz
GPU : Radeon 6950 2gb

I noticed in the few threads I've seen with this same problem, people suggest to check if your drivers are up to date and if hardware isn't faulty. I can assure you, it is neither of those things, my computer works fine with everything else, when I built it I ran the typical tests, such as prime95 and memtests. All is working fine.
I assume the problem stems from the gpu not agreeing with H&H/java for some odd reason, or perhaps windows 7? Either way, I'm no genius when it comes to computers and can't seem to figure out the problem despite googling about it for hours.

I've tried to get on, on my old PC, which also has windows 7, and that wouldn't work either, however when I tried it on a PC with vista, it ran with no errors what so ever.

So yeh, I'm pretty stumped here...

Can anyone help me out?

[Rreed1996]

you useing client? and if so what is it?

[therealmaze]

Happens both with Enders, and without it. I've been using enders though for the most part.

[Rreed1996]

try to update java

[therealmaze]

I have done. I've tried java 32 and 64 bit. With both enders clients too. All updated to the latest versions.

[MagicManICT]

how's your system performing? heat ranges getting up there? have you bothered to track it? is your power supply stable enough for the O/C? Is your drivers the most up-to-date or best ones for OpenGL (OGL support quality varies from release to release it seems. ATI and nVidia are more concerned with DirectX performance for Windows for desktop cards and don't seem to worry too much about OGL.)

addition:

Can't really help you with why you can't connect with your other PC unless you tell us what the problem is.

With an overclock, there can be sooo many things that are going wrong to cause a complete system freeze. I seriously suggest you monitor temperatures on: CPU, memory, HDDs, GPU, northbridge, and southbridge if you're going to OC any system. There are warnings about OCs for a reason, and they shouldn't be done by people not willing to go to the trouble of knowing what the warning signs are. I guess if you have the cash floating around to replace parts willy-nilly, all fine and good, but it still won't save you the headaches of problems like this. I'll but cash money on something is wrong with your overclock--overheating or not enough power to a part of the system.

[therealmaze]

Temps seem fine to me. They're at 36-41 with H&H on....thats pretty much the temp it's at without H&H as well. I'm not gonna say I couldn't have fucked the overclocking up, but it's been working fine for just about everything else I've threw at it.
Since the only PC I've got this game to work on has been a comp with vista, I've set the game compatibility to run it as vista. I've been roaming around for 2-3 hours so far with no crash, though I personally feel I'm just getting lucky. If it does crash again sometime soon, I will be completely out of ideas as to what to do next. What would you suggest then? To revert my overclock back to default? I'd pretty much only do that if it was almost a guarantee it would work, since I was shitting brix just trying to get the confidence to overclock the thing in the first place.
As for the drivers, all I know is they're up to date for sure.

[MagicManICT]

Since I didn't build your system, and you haven't ran down the complete specs on EVERYTHING that is in it, all I can say is: Yes, adjust the clock speed down. One of the signs that you're pushing the clocking too high is instabilities like this. Java programs can tax a system in ways nothing else will.

I know this is probably going a bit off-topic, but there's a lot of great websites on creating a profile for overclocking a system. If you do it right, it's very safe and you get the same system as if you had bought a bigger processor/graphics card for only a little more. If you don't, you'll end up spending much more for a very little more power than if you would have just gone with a more expensive base build (not to mention the headaches like this). The trade off is the time to research and tweak your system properly instead of forking out another couple hundred dollars. Two of my favorite power user mags are Maximum PC and Computer Power User (CPU). Great product reviews, how-tos, and other stuff.

[therealmaze]

Welp. Got about 8 hours out of the game last run before it froze again. Decided to revert to default clock settings, and the game froze within 2 mins of logging in.

Full specs of PC.

RAM : G-Skill 8GBXL Ripjaws X for Intel Sandybridge Platforms DDR3 PC12800 1600MHz 8GB Kit
Motherboard : ASUS p8p67 Pro
GPU : Radeon 6950 2GB
CPU : Sandy Bridge i5 2500k unlocked

Running Windows 7 Proffesional 64-bit.

This shit refuses to work on my system.

[sthalik]

Bumping the old thread.

Is this gone in 12.4 drivers? Doesn't happen under Linux at all, only Windows 7/maybe-older-versions is affected.