My 5970 isn't overclocked (apart from slight factory oc). I'm using the latest drivers 11.5b hotfix and 11.5 cap1 for application profiles.Īnd as I already said, the rest of my games run fine. I'm nonplussed as to where to start trouble-shooting now. Not only didn't Ctrl-Alt-Del work this time but while I was trying it I got the Blue Screen of Death requiring a re-boot of my pc. Turning to google before the 3rd try, I removed all 'startup' items from msconfig - it allowed me to choose my car and start a race in Norway (which ran perfectly smooth and fantastic!) only to get a big freeze after a minute.

On the second try, exactly the same thing above happened. I got a window saying that Dirt 3 had stopped working. Then I was inputting my name and nationality etc, when the game froze.Ĭtrl-Alt-Del worked. It started up fine, Games For Windows Live logged me in perfectly like it does with Dirt 2 and Fallout. It's on the desktop you can see in my system specs (not the laptop). I installed it on the 250GB external drive connected by e-sata (just like the rest of my non-Steam games, to save ssd space). I have a hard copy of Dirt 3 on dvd (because for some reason Steam doesn't sell it in my region). I play Dirt 2, Metro 2033, Crysis and Crysis 2, Portal 1 & 2, Fallout New Vegas, Amnesia, Oblivion.

I am assuming this is not a hardware problem since I never had a game crash, freeze or BSOD on me apart from the Sims 3 - and I had solved the Sims problem by going for an older graphics driver then (because come 11.4 and 11.5 the game just worked fine).

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