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9600xt lockups - Possible problem with Farcry?
Please forgive me, but I am a relative newbie to PC gaming although I
have been playing games for over 20 year now! I have searched many groups and found numerous problems related to the superb Farcry, and the ATI 9600xt. I have such a problem, where I get continual lockups seemingly at any resolution with any choice of video settings. I have a Celeron 2.7Ghz (Yes, I know...), 768MB Ram, 9600xt 256MB, XP SP2, DirectX 9.0b, Catalyst 4.9 drivers, and Farcry build 1256 (Patch 1.1). I had a 9200SE, which was about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike, so I upgraded to the 9600xt about 6 weeks ago, which means I have no old NVIDIA drivers on my machine. Doom3 runs perfectly well at 1024 x 768 High, and Painkiller runs at 1600 x 1200 with everything turned on. I have turned off the VPU recover, the AGP is set to 4x, and the FastWrite is turned off. I am completely virus / spyware / adware free, and have recently done a scandisk / defragmentation. I think that is the lot! What else can I possibly try? Why do all of my other games run like a dream and Farcry runs like a three-legged dog?? There must be issues with Farcry, hence the 1.2 patch that fleetingly appeared. If I am barking up the wrong tree, please advise!! |
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turn the shadows down.
install 9.0c i think you should be able to maintain the agp 8x, fast writes - set these in and turn shadows down (shadows - in game config menu) - everything else should be able to go max, ultra. ** Far Cry with Valerie as the Adventuress ** http://www.smokeypoint.org/farCry.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm ** No Fate ** cheers, dracman Tomb Raider: Shotgun City http://www.smokeypoint.com/tomb.htm ** Singles: Flirt UP Your Life AI and character MOD http://www.smokeypoint.com/childrenspajamas.htm#singles ** adventuring North to Ironforge. Dwarf Airport Discovered http://www.smokeypoint.org/wow/worldofwarcraft.html ** GTA III vice City Character MOD http://www.smokeypoint.com/uzi.htm#gta3 "JetSetWilly" wrote in message m... : Please forgive me, but I am a relative newbie to PC gaming although I : have been playing games for over 20 year now! : : I have searched many groups and found numerous problems related to the : superb Farcry, and the ATI 9600xt. I have such a problem, where I get : continual lockups seemingly at any resolution with any choice of video : settings. : : I have a Celeron 2.7Ghz (Yes, I know...), 768MB Ram, 9600xt 256MB, XP : SP2, DirectX 9.0b, Catalyst 4.9 drivers, and Farcry build 1256 (Patch : 1.1). : : I had a 9200SE, which was about as much use as an ashtray on a : motorbike, so I upgraded to the 9600xt about 6 weeks ago, which means : I have no old NVIDIA drivers on my machine. Doom3 runs perfectly well : at 1024 x 768 High, and Painkiller runs at 1600 x 1200 with everything : turned on. I have turned off the VPU recover, the AGP is set to 4x, : and the FastWrite is turned off. I am completely virus / spyware / : adware free, and have recently done a scandisk / defragmentation. : : I think that is the lot! What else can I possibly try? Why do all of : my other games run like a dream and Farcry runs like a three-legged : dog?? There must be issues with Farcry, hence the 1.2 patch that : fleetingly appeared. : : If I am barking up the wrong tree, please advise!! .................................................. ............... Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access at http://www.TitanNews.com -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=- |
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Try the 1.2 patch. Search for FarCryPatch12.exe
rms |
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I was thinking same thing about Doom3 ;-)
He could just mean it doesn't crash or lock up His card is an XT though, so I don't see why he shouldn't be able to play Far Cry at a reasonable resolution. I was able to play at 1024*768 with everything turned up (AF not on full though.) With AF off I did play through at 1280*1024, and it slowed occasionally. 9800 pro AMD 2500. "Wblane" wrote in message ... Doom3, "perfectly fine" at 1024x768 on a 9600Xt, I've got a 9800 Pro and it sure as hell doesn't run "perfectly fine" at 1024x768, high detail, 2xAA, 8xAF. Far Cry at 1024x768 can't be done on your video card, it's far too slow. so I upgraded to the 9600xt about 6 weeks ago, which means I have no old NVIDIA drivers on my machine. Doom3 runs perfectly well at 1024 x 768 High, and Painkiller runs at 1600 x 1200 with everything turned on. I have turned off the VPU recover, the AGP is set to 4x, and the FastWrite is turned off. I am completely virus / spyware / adware free, and have recently done a scandisk / defragmentation. -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) |
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Sorry that I haven't replied sooner, but I have tried a few things
over the past week or so, but to no avail. I now find that my PC is freezing randomly - in Farcry, Painkiller, but more worryingly when I am moving around on my desktop! At least I now know it is nothing to do with Farcry. If it helps, here is the original spec of my machine: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00127599.pdf The only changes to that spec is that I now have a Sapphire 9600xt and a further 512mb ram. I keep reading about power supply limitations in these forums. Is it that my HP box can't take my new card, do you think? With regards to my sound, I don't seem to be having any problems. My device manager says that I have "Realtek AC'97 Audio", if that is any help? I now have DirectX 9.0c, and all diagnostics seem to run successfully. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled the Catalyst drivers, but still no joy. Can anyone please tell me of anything else I can try? Many thanks in anticipation! |
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It could be a host of problems.
Could be bad RAM. (run only one DIMM if possible and see if you a freeze.) Could be a bad video card. (put in your old card and see if get a freeze.) Could be a bad motherboard. Could be a virus or bad spyware. Could be CPU temp is getting too high. Are your fans all working at proper RPM? Did your problems start after installing new drivers or hardware? Is the box still under warranty? If so, send it in to HP with the old parts in it. "JetSetWilly" wrote in message m... Sorry that I haven't replied sooner, but I have tried a few things over the past week or so, but to no avail. I now find that my PC is freezing randomly - in Farcry, Painkiller, but more worryingly when I am moving around on my desktop! At least I now know it is nothing to do with Farcry. If it helps, here is the original spec of my machine: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c00127599.pdf The only changes to that spec is that I now have a Sapphire 9600xt and a further 512mb ram. I keep reading about power supply limitations in these forums. Is it that my HP box can't take my new card, do you think? With regards to my sound, I don't seem to be having any problems. My device manager says that I have "Realtek AC'97 Audio", if that is any help? I now have DirectX 9.0c, and all diagnostics seem to run successfully. I have completely uninstalled and reinstalled the Catalyst drivers, but still no joy. Can anyone please tell me of anything else I can try? Many thanks in anticipation! |
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Jeez, this PC gaming isn't easy, is it?
This may make your blood boil, but you can see why PS2s and XBOXes are so popular for gamers - no crashing, no hardware compatability issues, no 70mb SP2 downloads (lol). Can anyone tell me if there are any utilities that can find possible hardware problems i.e with my memory / motherboard / graphics card? I have found that vendor support is very poor, as Ubisoft / Sapphire / Ati either didn't have a clue or didn't even respond. Again, I am relatively new to this PC gaming, but I have found that if you look at other groups/forums that are MS related, MSCEs etc try to help out. For example, the Excel forums are constantly interacted with Microsoft personnel. Why are the the Ati support people not being involved with this forum? Is it not deemed professional? Do they not know that this is here, perhaps? Do you think that if vendor support was good enough, these forums would not be necessary? |
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OK, I have eliminated overheating and any possible memory problems.
The interesting thing now is that I finally had an error message to send to Microsoft. The web link said that it couldn't determine exactly what was wrong, but it brought up KB293078. It suggests that my device driver is not working correctly. Could this be true? I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Catalyst drivers for ver 4.8 and 4.9, but still no luck. Does anyone have any ideas as to what else I can try? Please? Pretty please? |
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