Checking your Video cards temp is fairly easy on most Nvidia cards as such:

Before ShIII
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...007_160106.jpg


After couple hours of SHIII
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y11...007_180436.jpg

Some of you play SHIII with a lot of unnecessary background stuff and one of those is the 'Internet'. Shuting off the internet, virus checker, firewalls and a bunch of other background stuff will speed up your SHIII and give your computer a break. Also when graphics start getting goofy colors and pics being out of line ( streaked ) your graphic card is more than likely overheated as a lack of ventilating fans,lots of dust in computer, etc.

Like I said turn off the Internet when playing solo for your e-mail will still be there when your done playing. ;)

I did that and....
 

Here was result - normal usage (like now - 116 - 123 F)
Post Game crash 152 - 155 F
Comments?

Errrr . . . that sounds awful warm to me.

Judging by the length of this thread, it's probably not the problem but...

... I had problems with overheating last year. I replaced all my four air fans except, the ones on the chip and the powerhouse, that really helped. Meanwhile I was thinking, nah, that can't make too much of a difference right?

:huh:

It did :cool:

Yep it was a heat issue
 

It was heat - installed motherboard monitor and put the machine through it's paces - recreated the problem and then took the side off of it and the temp dropped 15 - 20 degrees. Now my computer temp is 132 during game (after exiting vice 155).
Thanks to all that helped
Bravo Zulu!