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Originally Posted by relfin

When you say that it "crashed to a black screen" do you mean that the pc turned itself off/rebooted? If so, it could be an overheating of the processor that is turning off the pc. Download a free CPU temp check program. It did crash to a black screen but didn't turn itself completely off. I still had a power light but had to reboot to get computer to function.

You could try opening up your case and blowing a fan on your parts.
The side panel is already off and four fans are moving air.

Good Luck

I also see that you reused the cpu from your old motherboard. You want to make sure that you use some new thermal compound between your CPU and heatsink. Make sure you blow all the dust out of all of your fans and off of the heatsink fins. That's the first thing I did was to ensure a new layer of thermal compound went down before I put on the heat sink and then blew compressed air everywhere to get rid of all dust.

I have personally had an overheating problem myself which resulted in my pc shutting down. I was able to fix the problem with the suggestions above.

I got it to work (sort of) but after about five minutes the frame rate takes a crash dive and the video just starts stuttering. I have since reinstalled Win7 and the game (including patch) again and are going to give it another go in a bit. I'll keep my fingers crossed.