I recently reinstalled everything from scratch.
After playing some BF3 it crashes. Does not matter if its single player or online.
It just closes out of BF3, but you still hear the audio. I cannot go back into the game, I have to kill the task from task manager.
I was using a GTX 590 before the GTX 680 SC+ and did not have these issues at all.
I'm still using the official drivers that came with the card. Does anyone know if the new beta drivers address this issue ?
Thanks

Happens to me rarely, and very randomly. In the beginning I thought it was a heating issue but I don't have that problem anywhere else. It's the Nvidia driver crashing basically, which kills the visual part of the game, but leaves audio. 
 
Would love to know if anyone has any suggestions regarding this issue.

If it's OC'd at all put it back to the default clock settings, sounds like the problem I used to have with my GTX 570 SC's when I would try to OC them too high.

Only issue i have had is after being killed and spawning at the bottom of the map, think its a hacker getting mad when I kill them over and over again... only has happened on some servers...

My card is at stock speeds. I'm going to try other games like Crysis 2 and Skyrim to see if I get the same issue.

try repairing the install also if you find the time,also try what others above have mentioned.Ive heard of a few rare cases where the last update slightly corrupted some game files .Ive been using the last 2 beta drivers with no issues ,currently on 301.32

Crysis 1 also crashes, and I get a notification saying the nvidia driver crashed and successfully recovered.
I'll give 301.32 a try.

OP: Happens every now and then with my GTX 260. (Yeah, I'm outdated...)
 
Of course, nothing is as frustrating as the loading screen freeze, where you have to restart the client because it will never actually load.

Does Windows Event Log show anything useful?  If you plug the 580, or any other card for that matter, does the game still crash?
 
The answer could simply be, you need a RMA for the 680.

his card is fine , simply put the client is garbage.

I can now confirm that drivers 301.32 fix the BF3 lockup issue.
I have been playing for a couple hours straight without a hitch.
Same goes for Crysis 1
Have yet to try out Skyrim

I found the best fix for BF3, it is probably the only one that works 100% for sure. I highly recommend it the next chance you get, matter of fact I think it will solve any performance issue you may ever get with bf3, or any personel problem, want to know what it is?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
uninstall that horrible game.

thePoison


I found the best fix for BF3, it is probably the only one that works 100% for sure. I highly recommend it the next chance you get, matter of fact I think it will solve any performance issue you may ever get with bf3, or any personel problem, want to know what it is?



uninstall that horrible game.

 
Please dont tell me you're either a COD fanboy or an EA/Origin hater.... There's no place for hate on these forums  

thePoison


I found the best fix for BF3, it is probably the only one that works 100% for sure. I highly recommend it the next chance you get, matter of fact I think it will solve any performance issue you may ever get with bf3, or any personel problem, want to know what it is?

uninstall that horrible game.

Lol come on... BF3 is a great game.
 

He's just mad that he can't fly jets and heli's in his game of COD

Where I can download 301.32?

Nnukx


Where I can download 301.32?

I don't even see .32 on evga or nvidia. I think he's talking about this 301.24 which is the beta drivers from April 12. You can find that here http://www.evga.com/support/download/
 
If I am wrong, please correct me.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2903 32bit
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=2902 64 bit

Be aware that the 301.32 is a CUDA developer driver and if you attempt a clean install with it, you will have to install PhysX separately as it is not contained in the driver package. Also, the driver is from an older branch than the current 301.24 driver. A few have reported issues trying to remove the driver to install other versions. Just be aware of some of the issues.

Thanks Heavy! Did not hear about this .Been flawless for me till now.Did a install over .24 so my PhysX is intact .For me in BF3 this driver has been solid since the day it was released/leaked.

EDIT-Damn, I still crashed while checking out Crysis 2 on max. Wasn't paying attention to the temperatures this time...
 
I just got the card (superclocked version) today and started a few games. BF3, Saints row the third, shogun 2 and they all crashed to desktop (with a black screen) 5-10 minutes into the games(amazing crash considering it sounded like a movie's Transformer shouting).
 
The temps were all at 78 c right on the crash.
 
Got the precision X tool and started a stress test, I kept an eye on the temperature and it remained at about 60-68. I noticed the fan percentage speed keeping up with the temps at 1:1 ratio most of the time. Fired a game and played a full round of BF3, while still looking at temps, which remained stable at 60c.
 
Closed precision x and went to Shogun 2, a few minutes in, crashed again. 78 c again. Just tried it with Precision x and had no problems at all.
 
I can't say 100% sure as I wasn't looking , but when it crashed the fan must have not be keeping up with the temperatures. I don't remember the fan working as hard as it is at the moment when it went down, but maybe I wasn't paying attention.
 
Of course, not going to say that having Precision X is necessary for everyone, this is what I experienced, it could be completely different for others.

Is that a universal response to such a game, call them a COD fan boy? What a bunch of sheep, and by all means I am relatilvey above average, the game is just a big pile of you know what
 
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/thePoison0/stats/235607606/

thePoison


Is that a universal response to such a game, call them a COD fan boy? What a bunch of sheep, and by all means I am relatilvey above average, the game is just a big pile of you know what

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/soldier/thePoison0/stats/235607606/

 
A game is a pile of you know what, and you still drop over 200 hours into the game.... ****...

can we stay on topic? this does not help the original posters problem.Want to argue about the game take it to PM's please.Thanks

That's odd I've never had bf3 crash since getting my 680, I've even done a reformat and still no issues.

I still cant play the game as it crashes and kicks me to desktop and I get 0 errors or warnings. This sucks I hope it is a driver issue. I have tried the 301.42 and 301.32 no change. I have also changed the settings in game and it does not matter it just crashes or lockes up and I have to restart. Oh and the vram showing is 3105 and that seems high to me. My sys spec are wrong I just boutght a EVGA 680 GTX SC everything was running fine with my rebuild for a week with my 580 waiting for the 680 to become available. The first time I ran the 680 in game it crashes.

Agreed! to the jealous about BF3 comment.....sorry to hear others are having problems I hope that is not the case for me.....

Hi i was crashing in battlefield 3 as well using 301.42 WHQL drivers. The error reported that it was the nvidia driver causing the issue (NVWFG.dll or somthing like that). I went back to 301.24 beta and no crashes at all.
 
I am using GTX680 SC Signiture running 1262 boost clock and 6508 memory. 
 
so in short its a driver issue with 301.42 WHQL.

I have tried 3 drivers now and I still get the same problem. I was using this driver with the 580 and I had 0 problems. I even tried this morning to reduce the clocks down to stock and it still crashed. Oh and my card is not responding to Precision X for setting a certain FPS, it does'nt matter what I set it on I'm getting way above that. If I did not have this problem I would not complain at all I love the FPS I get for the few min it does work. I'm getting like 75+ on Ultra at 1920x1200.

I just put my GTX 670 FTW in last night (3rd RMA), started up BF3, and it worked fine for a bit... Then it started "hitching" occasionally, with the sound getting jumbled for like 1 second.  (sounded like the transformer sound mentioned above).     The stuttering got worse.  Eventually it crashed.   Was using  301.42 WHQL drivers.
 
Ugh.