Starcraft 2 Drashing with black screen

[srothman]

Anyone else experience this:

I'll play for a while, and then the screen will just go black, losing input, and I end up having to hard-reboot my machine to get back to the desktop.

This only happens with SC-II, and I haven't had any issues with any of my other games, including Diablo III, Battlefield, etc.

Initially I though it might have been an overheating issue, but I've ran numerous stress tests on the CPU and GPU, and I've tested the RAM, etc. and at 100% utilization. Still goes black after a while, and it is random... can be after an hour, can be after 5 minutes.
System is as follow:

Gigabyte Z77-D3H board
i5 3570K stock
Gigabyte HD 7850 GPU
8 GB Corsair RAM
Corsair GS700 PS

Any suggestions? I've scoured the net, and although I find similar issues relating to other games, I haven't yet found any of those solutions to work.

I've re-installed the OS, all drivers with updated versions, updated the BIOS, updated the video BIOS, rolled back drivers, re-installed/repatched the game, reseated hardward, swopped hardware with different ones (much as I could).... no joy.

At wits' end

 

[srothman]

lol...."Drashing"....ffs....

 

[Creepster]

lol...."Drashing"....ffs....

Jip better watch.Whose Drashings will get yous

 

[AfricanTech]

Phew! Hard one. Nothing overclocked I presume? Had similar problems couple of years back with Assassins Creed and eventually traced it to DRAM voltage issue.

 

[srothman]

Played around with those too. Nothing OC'ed and board running with defaults Flippin annoying!

 

[AfricanTech]

Any chance of trying a different video card?

I remember eventually just replacing my whole computer - needed an upgrade anyway

 

[srothman]

Actually though about that this morning, and going to try with the on-board card. The 7850 is less than 4 months old, and everything else works fine. I also though it might have been that, but after stressing it as much as I can without any issue, not even heat, I ruled out the card as being an issue.

 

[GreyBush]

Try a bump in voltage on CPU, GPU and RAM... Perhaps try run the game at the lowest spec and see if it continues.

 

[srothman]

Try a bump in voltage on CPU, GPU and RAM... Perhaps try run the game at the lowest spec and see if it continues.

Will give it a shot, thanks.
I'll go through the process with EasyTune for the Gigabyte board to change the voltages for the CPU/RAM. I've changed the settings of the game to pretty much every possible combination, but that doesn't seem to help.

 

[GreyBush]

Will give it a shot, thanks.
I'll go through the process with EasyTune for the Gigabyte board to change the voltages for the CPU/RAM. I've changed the settings of the game to pretty much every possible combination, but that doesn't seem to help.

I don't trust easy tune... go into the bios and just bump it by one increment... Use afterburner for the GPU

 

[srothman]

Thanks

 

[PsyWulf]

Try underclocking the GPU by 10% for testing

 

[AfricanTech]

I don't trust easy tune... go into the bios and just bump it by one increment... Use afterburner for the GPU

+1 on that advice

Pity you're in Pretoria - I have an old Nvidia card you could have tried for testing purposes.

 

[shubz]

I had the exact same issue with SC2, eventualy I swapped out my ram and no more issues.

 

[srothman]

I had the exact same issue with SC2, eventualy I swapped out my ram and no more issues.

I hope that's not the issue
I want to get an additional 8GB in any case, so maybe I should get that and test it with the new RAM, and then if the problem goes away get rid of the old ones.

EDIT: I just find it odd that it's only with this game that it happens.

I see Rebeltech has a special on RAM at the moment... 16GB for R1000-odd... Might be a good deal.

 

[shubz]

I played various games at the time, but only had errors with SC2. Lucky for me I just swapped the RAM betweem my microserver and my gaming rig. The Ram I took out though is still in the microserver with no issues.