Game Crash, lots of small black vertical pixilated lines

I play the game via Steam, all my other games work fine, like Call Of Duty ect so I know my gear is good. I have a new nvidia 9800gt, dual core 3.2ghz athlon, 4gb ram, windows 7 premium 64bit up-to-date, i have tried various drivers for the graphics card, i have backed up the game via steam, then deleted it and restored, yet the same crash happens every so often. Game patch has been updated via steam client as well.

Basically the entire screen freezes, keyboards locks out as well and i get a load of short black pixilated horizonta lines all over the screen, only happens with FM2010. I need to do a hard re-boot every time.

I have sound disabled, tried using the steam cache/integrity check, even lowered & raised the graphics levels, still no difference, happened about 2-3 seasons into the game. The only thing I have not tried is a full re-install and completely wipe all the saved files as well...which will be the last thing I'll do.

Sorry...it's horizontal lines, not vertical.

Any ideas?

yeah, maybe they're too hot for the game to handle, ;-), it's so annoying, even if i load the saved game, minimise the screen so i can jump on the net for a bit or even play some sounds, the same crash happends, that leads me to believe it's a corruption of the saved game loading up, which sadly means a complete re-install with loss of progress

The symptoms you describe sound like a Graphics Card issue, but it's weird it doesn't happen on more intense games. So a CPU, Memory or a Motherboard problem would be what I look for. Tried running something like memtest

I'm not a techie, but that sounds like your graphics card is overheating. Check BIOS on restart temperature of graphics card, CPU etc... it all might need a good clean out inside with an air duster.

cards temp is good, i have a large tower with a well vented case, card is about 3 weeks old, i can play modern warfare 2 without an issues, which is a high demanding game, if that was crashing as well then i'd be worried

my first thought was the graphics card was over heating, but it only happens when FM2010 is loaded up, the only thing i have not done is completely delete the whole game

i do have loads of custom tactics & training saved, additional team logo's, badges, hair styles for gen players ect to enhance the game a bit more, maybe it's corrupted config files

i'm very pc literate, always keep my system clean and dust free, always get the best drivers (until now that is ;-) and always keep my system up to date, it's a self build as well so i know all the parts well and can usually spot a problem before it happens, but this one has got be puzzled,

Hmm... I did have what sounds an almost identical problem with the same graphics card (GTX model) on Warhammer Online, and only that game.

I never solved it unfortunately, hope you have better luck than me with FM!

I'd test the actual temperatures of your machine both (CPU and GPU). It probably won't be your GPU if COD is running fine but worth checking anyway.

I had a similar thing a while back and it turn out it was my GPU overheating, I cleaned out the case and card got the temps back down and haven't seen any problems since. Having said that, I also replaced my PSU so I guess there's a chance that could be causing problems if you don't have a good one.