Freeze with stuttering sound

[combatwombat]

PR freezes for me sometimes, with the screen locking in place and the sound stuttering - and to get out of it I have to manually reboot (alt-tab and alt+ctrl+delete do nothing). Does anyone else ever get this? I used to get it once a week at most, but today it happened 3 times all within the space of 3 or 4 hours. Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

[combatwombat]

nobody else gets this???

[para_hjs]

Post your settings and PC specs.

I got freeze / soundloop with the old 7900GT. Got a 8800GTS 512 G92 = no freeze.

[ArmedDrunk&Angry]

I get a freeze, then a blackout sometimes with just the trees showing, then it comes back.
Sometimes it seems like VIOP causes lag for me and I do get the freeze up with stuttering that requires a manual reboot.
I have a dirty 128mg GPU and only 1G of RAM.
I has happened more often last week and then I cleaned the GPU as best I could it stopped for the most part.
I run on all low settings.

[RA::LUNG]

I have just started getting this recently and also happens about once a week or more, I had thought mabey from playing a long time but has happen without any long time play to as well screen freezes and then sound stutter im baffled. Tried a bunch of things and no fix yet. Have to manually reboot not control alt ability to reboot.

[combatwombat]

System specs:
CPU: Q6600 (2.4 ghz quad core, no overclockage)
MOBO: Elitegroup P965T-A
RAM: 2GM DDR2
GFX: nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
HDD: 153 GB (6.7 unused)
OS: Win XP

Originally Posted by ArmedDrunk&Angry

I get a freeze, then a blackout sometimes with just the trees showing, then it comes back.

I used to get this too but not anymore

[Cyrax-Sektor]

Hmm, I thought I was the only one getting this. I've a HP dv9000 laptop, can run PR and BF2 fine at Medium, yet at times, it just freezes, nothing I do can budge the laptop, and the looping noise just keeps going. I have to manually shut down the laptop. I check the fans and see it's rather hot.

Conclusion: overheat. Never happens with vBF2, as it's not as complex as PR.

[Levesly]

I get freezes where everything slowes down to a snail pace. Its like suffering from UBER lag but my ping is abolutly fine. I can talk/hear people on TS and yet for 2-3 mins PR is unplayable as everything it stuttering about, I will see some one walking twoards me then bag he is behind me. Then everything will be fine for 5-10 mins before it starts again. Anyone have any ideas?

[[R-DEV]Cheeseman]

If any of you have anything overclocked then it can cause BF2/PR to freeze up, because of Punkbuster.

[[R-PUB]MrD]

I have a suspicion this is related to overheating GPU cards. I was experiencing it as the temperature rose this summer until I fitted a Zalman VF700-CU cooler to my x1950pro GPU (required a couple of extra heatsinks, one with a bit cut off, for the VRM chips)and lowered the temps 20c. I think I've had one lockup since, but not the annoying ones from before.