Black screen y flying ctl/alt/delete

[tobeaucu]

RATS, for the first time ever i have experinced a problem that is beyond me, im running a Palit 460GTX 2GB DDR5 Core I5 4 GB Course Air mem 1333 mhz win7 64 everything seems fine game loads, good FPS, will fly around for a while no set amount of time about 30 to 45 mins and without any warning i get a black screen cannot recovery screen i have to CTL/ALT/DEL end program and restart program doesn't lock still up says its running in task mngr. I just put this system together fresh install of win7 do you guys have any suggestion. I saw a thread a while back that delt with this problem but couldn't understand why the thread was closed couldn't see the resolution. Any help would be greatley appreciated because i really would like to play.

[OLDZEKE]

Did you update the vid driver?

[tobeaucu]

I am running the most current drivers for the 460GTX i think its ver. 266.58 but don't quote me on that not at my computer right now.

[GOPHUR]

Gah. no idea.

I don't have a Fermi (460) in house to test but that doesn't seem right.

Do you have an old GPU to test against?

Closest I have is a 260gt but I know from resent testing it'll fly for hours with no issues (till the gas runs out).

[beazil]

Here me out on this one. I'm currently experiencing something similar with my current build where the monitor kicks into energy saving mode - ie: shuts off while I'm flying.

Why does it do this? My theory is that since it's not getting keyboard inputs, it thinks nothing is going on, and so shuts down after a given time. Kinda like landing and comming back to your computer after a break, you have to whack the spacebar or move the mouse to get your screen to come back on. I have to do this in flight every once in a while, because I'm too lazy to set it up properly (at least today).

Well, what happens if your computer, like my old one, goes into sleep mode, but won't "wake up"?

Sometimes, if your bios isn't configured to "wake on" events, or if your win OS isn't set up the same way, it's possible you could run into trouble there.

You could try disabling energy saving in windows and bios, at least until you figure out what the problem is. Then you can make appropriate adjustments.

[beazil]

Fixed my issue tonight. Wondering if you had any success Tob.