On overclocked machines you see this a lot. The owners usually counter "it worked like this for years." The problem is that parts age. Now they may be thinking about silicon chips which mostly don't age so fast but the parts that do in just months are electrolytic capacitors. To fix this we swap out the motherboard and PSU so they can get their overclocking fix again.
I read nothing about other changes so the factors of drivers are dismissed since same drivers would load on a reboot.
Classic aging signs to me.
Hey.
I have started to get this problem about a year ago. About 2 min after starting the game the screen goes black, you can hear a buzzing sound in the speakers/headphones and I have to hard restart the computer to start it back up again.
Computer specs:
OS: Windows 7 64 Ultimate
Processor: Intel I7 920 clocked up to 3.86
Cooler: H80 Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 (LGA 1366)
RAM: Corsair dominator 12GB (6x2GB) 1600mhz
Sound : ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 Pci Express Sound Card
Disk 1: 120gb SSD Kingston Hyper X Fury
Disk 2: 1000GB Western Digital Caviar Black
Power supply: Corsair Professional Series Gold AX 750, 750W, 80 Plus Gold
GPU: XFX Double D HD 7970 3GB GHZ Edition

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