Haven't posted in a while so pinching my post from the EA forums about my troubles with my Graphics cards!!;
I like to think that I have a pretty decent rig; Dual Nvidia GTX 560Ti's, 8 Gig of serious RAM, Core i5 2600k etc... Also, running Windows 7 and all things seem pretty stable.
Kinda enjoying this game when it works but getting it to not crash has been a bit of a nightmare. I won't even go into the lack of 3D support....
Anyway, got fed up this evening and decided to post. I managed to get the game working relatively well after disabling my SLI (lame!) and turning down the resolution to something I would hope that my rig could handle - 1280x1024. This stopped the constant random crashing at the start of every level or at least reduced to every now and again which wasn't so bad.
I've just made it up to the Nikki and Mila level (end of Level 2) and straight after the cut scene, as soon as it fades back into the game it crashes every time. I'm not sure what to try next as I've tried tweeking the graphics settings down even further and still having the problem. Essentially I cant play the game as I cant get this level to start!
I have never seen a PC game with this many severe bugs and I've been gaming since day dot.
PS, Sorry, I also forgot to mention that I am experiencing the same Nikki and Mila crash before AND after installing the PC patch that came out 3 days ago.
Cheers
[UPDATE!!!!]
So I think I have resolved this issue finally. Though not exactly sure what the cause was. I'm leaning towards blaming my Gigabyte 560 ti OC's unstable factory overclock. After much headache installing temperature monitoring software and getting this working in-game Nvidia released the 295.73 drivers in late February. It may have been a bug in the previous drivers or it may have been the (factory) overclock. After installing the 295.73 drivers I managed to get past the Nikki and Mila stage and thought all was running well but still suffered momentary crashes.
I was playing another game and was experiencing similar crashes now and again. Trawling the Nvidia forums I stumbled across a 560 thread and noted a lot of people having the same kinds of problems mostly with BF3 (another frostbyte engine title). A lot of talk of increasing the stock voltage to over 1.000 volts but CRUICIALLY underclocking the card from it's factory overclock to the standard 822/1900 (instead of 900/2004) speeds. Once I had done this NFS seems A LOT more stable. I have not had a single crash on start up (used to happen first time, every time requiring me to start the game twice) nor in game crash. Not very happy that (albeit overclocked) card is released and is completely unstable. You would think that these things would ship and be relatively stable out of the box??
Anyway - posting an update so that this may help others..
Cheers
