Metro 2033 issues with stability

[AnthrSolidSnake]

I just got done building (well, 90% built so far. I'm using a temporary CPU from my older rig until I buy a new one) a new PC, and I decided to try one of my most intesive games. The game installed fine, and it even starts up fine. I get through the intro screen, the first sequence of the game, and I get to the part where the monsters start to invade the base, and my game freezes and the audio stutters. I either have to alt-tab my way out, or turn off my system entirely. I also get the vertical black lines when changing graphic options, and one time I even had the game stop working and back out into this screen of four squares being white, blue, green and pink.

I know my system is capable of running this game, but is there a stability issue somewhere? I'd post in the Steam forums, but the moderators haven't "authorized" me to post yet for almost a half hour.

My system:

GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
EVGA GTX 670 graphics card (Driver version 320.18)
AMD Phenom II 960T x4 @ 3.0Ghz
8GB DDR3 RAM
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit

I turned off the DOF and Nvidia Physx, running the game in DX11 with Very high at a resolution of 1360x768

 

[Supernova1138]

Roll back to an earlier graphics driver revision, The 320 drivers seem to have been causing all sorts of issues. If your graphics card is overclocked, return it to stock clocks. If your problems are persisting after a driver rollback, you may have a bad graphics card. Also, what kind of power supply do you have? If it is a very cheap generic one, it may not be able to deliver enough power to run a GTX 670 without causing stability problems and/or system shutdowns.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Roll back to an earlier graphics driver revision, The 320 drivers seem to have been causing all sorts of issues. If your graphics card is overclocked, return it to stock clocks. If your problems are persisting after a driver rollback, you may have a bad graphics card. Also, what kind of power supply do you have? If it is a very cheap generic one, it may not be able to deliver enough power to run a GTX 670 without causing stability problems and/or system shutdowns.

Well, funny enough, I had a 880W Power supply, but it just burnt out a few hours ago, so I replaced it with a 600W power supply. All my other games are running perfectly fine. I'll try rolling back the Drivers like you suggest and see if that helps. And I doubt the card is bad, since I just bought it a week ago, and didn't start using it until yesterday.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

Rolling back the drivers seems to have done it. However, I still can't turn on Advanced DOF or else I get the black vertical lines again. Oh well, it's an effect I never noticed anyway. (And it seems that my performance has increased with the driver rollback too)