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Old October 7th 05, 04:38 AM
AAvK
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Default x800xl and Far Cry, disasterous!


....WHAT - A - DISASTER!!!

My tech specs:

WinXP home SP2
Abit IS7 mobo
P4c HT 2.60ghz
1 gb Kingston Dual channel PC3200/DDR400 Value RAM
Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm/8mb on a seralell (Siralell?) adapter
Maxtor 40gb 7200/2MB storage disc
New Pioneer DVD drive
Sony burner
x800xl AGP made by ATI, 256/256bit 400gpu / 980RAM...
-- Product ID: 100-435508
-- using Omega 5.9 drivers only, thus far

On first attempt, using the fully upgraded Far Cry 1.33, the computer
shuts down fully, power all the way off, taking much MB electricity with
it, as takes 3 minutes to be able to turn it on again. This happens time after
time and it played fine, if a little slow, using the old GF4 Ti4600. by
Chaintech.

After the second occurance I increased the AGP voltage by a half a point
as well as the same for the P4 CPU... then I was able to start the game and
play a while at increased graphics levels and some types shadows for
smaller objects were not black, but green and yellow. When driving a vehicle
it froze after a while, then it was all over for good, and same story.

I must have worked with this for 5 hours, and gone through 25 restarts...
Anyone know what can be done before I grab a replacement RMA?

TIA all,

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Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com


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Old October 7th 05, 06:50 AM
Paul Goodhew
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AAvK wrote in message ...

...WHAT - A - DISASTER!!!

My tech specs:

WinXP home SP2
Abit IS7 mobo
P4c HT 2.60ghz
1 gb Kingston Dual channel PC3200/DDR400 Value RAM
Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm/8mb on a seralell (Siralell?) adapter
Maxtor 40gb 7200/2MB storage disc
New Pioneer DVD drive
Sony burner
x800xl AGP made by ATI, 256/256bit 400gpu / 980RAM...
-- Product ID: 100-435508
-- using Omega 5.9 drivers only, thus far

On first attempt, using the fully upgraded Far Cry 1.33, the computer
shuts down fully, power all the way off, taking much MB electricity with
it, as takes 3 minutes to be able to turn it on again. This happens time

after
time and it played fine, if a little slow, using the old GF4 Ti4600. by
Chaintech.

After the second occurance I increased the AGP voltage by a half a point
as well as the same for the P4 CPU... then I was able to start the game and
play a while at increased graphics levels and some types shadows for
smaller objects were not black, but green and yellow. When driving a

vehicle
it froze after a while, then it was all over for good, and same story.

I must have worked with this for 5 hours, and gone through 25 restarts...
Anyone know what can be done before I grab a replacement RMA?

TIA all,

--
Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com



It's probably related to your power supply. You are probably using too much
power for it to handle. anything less than 350 watt power supply and you are
asking for trouble. If you have alot drives etc then a 450 watt PSU would be
the go.


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Old October 7th 05, 07:54 AM
AAvK
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It's probably related to your power supply. You are probably using too much
power for it to handle. anything less than 350 watt power supply and you are
asking for trouble. If you have alot drives etc then a 450 watt PSU would be
the go.


Thanks but that's what I've got, 450 watts and it is plugged into the card.
No other game besides Far Cry shuts the computer down.

--
Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com


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Old October 7th 05, 09:25 AM
Derek Baker
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AAvK wrote:
It's probably related to your power supply. You are probably using too much
power for it to handle. anything less than 350 watt power supply and you are
asking for trouble. If you have alot drives etc then a 450 watt PSU would be
the go.



Thanks but that's what I've got, 450 watts and it is plugged into the card.
No other game besides Far Cry shuts the computer down.

What's the make and model of that PSU?
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Old October 7th 05, 01:02 PM
dave
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It'll definately be the power supply - we had a problem with an nVidia
card and a 450W PSU, the games ran OK but when playing Far Cry for two
hours the PSU blew up (obviously the PSU was being overdriven and wasn't
regulated poroperly) !

We now have a 750W PSU and everything is fine - If you wish to maintain
cutting edge performance without continually replacing PSU you're
probably better getting a 1KW PSU :-)

"AAvK" wrote in message
news:VXo1f.630$UF4.88@fed1read02...

It's probably related to your power supply. You are probably using too

much
power for it to handle. anything less than 350 watt power supply and you

are
asking for trouble. If you have alot drives etc then a 450 watt PSU

would be
the go.


Thanks but that's what I've got, 450 watts and it is plugged into the

card.
No other game besides Far Cry shuts the computer down.

--
Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com




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Old October 9th 05, 01:06 AM
Knight37
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"dave" once tried to test me with:

It'll definately be the power supply - we had a problem with an nVidia
card and a 450W PSU, the games ran OK but when playing Far Cry for two
hours the PSU blew up (obviously the PSU was being overdriven and wasn't
regulated poroperly) !

We now have a 750W PSU and everything is fine - If you wish to maintain
cutting edge performance without continually replacing PSU you're
probably better getting a 1KW PSU :-)


holy ****

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Once a Gamer, Always a Gamer.

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Old October 8th 05, 12:36 AM
dawg
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If it's a cheapie PS,it doesn't matter if it's 800W!! Not saying you've got
a crappy PS. But if it doesn't have enough amperage on the 12V(18A at least)
and 5V(35A at least) you might get problems with new hardware and software..
It could be Far cry stresses everthing and shows some weaknesess. I could be
wrong. Might be a software problem with motherboard drivers or even sound
drivers.

"AAvK" wrote in message
news:VXo1f.630$UF4.88@fed1read02...

It's probably related to your power supply. You are probably using too

much
power for it to handle. anything less than 350 watt power supply and you

are
asking for trouble. If you have alot drives etc then a 450 watt PSU

would be
the go.


Thanks but that's what I've got, 450 watts and it is plugged into the

card.
No other game besides Far Cry shuts the computer down.

--
Giant_Alex
cravdraa_at-yahoo_dot-com




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Old October 7th 05, 08:05 AM
fanni001
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...WHAT - A - DISASTER!!!

My tech specs:

WinXP home SP2
Abit IS7 mobo
P4c HT 2.60ghz
1 gb Kingston Dual channel PC3200/DDR400 Value RAM
Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm/8mb on a seralell (Siralell?) adapter
Maxtor 40gb 7200/2MB storage disc
New Pioneer DVD drive
Sony burner
x800xl AGP made by ATI, 256/256bit 400gpu / 980RAM...
-- Product ID: 100-435508
-- using Omega 5.9 drivers only, thus far

On first attempt, using the fully upgraded Far Cry 1.33, the computer
shuts down fully, power all the way off, taking much MB electricity with
it, as takes 3 minutes to be able to turn it on again. This happens time
after
time and it played fine, if a little slow, using the old GF4 Ti4600. by
Chaintech.

After the second occurance I increased the AGP voltage by a half a point
as well as the same for the P4 CPU... then I was able to start the game
and
play a while at increased graphics levels and some types shadows for
smaller objects were not black, but green and yellow. When driving a
vehicle
it froze after a while, then it was all over for good, and same story.

I must have worked with this for 5 hours, and gone through 25 restarts...
Anyone know what can be done before I grab a replacement RMA?



Use all "default" settings for mobo and graphics card. Use default ATI
drivers and not Omega. And make certain it's not the PSU. A poor 450W unit
will cough and splutter . I found this out a while back with mine. It was a
no name cheap-o and with 2 burners, 2 Kingston RAM modules, ATI X800PRO, USB
devices etc, etc..it would freeze playing certain games. Far Cry was one.


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Old October 7th 05, 04:13 PM
Al Kaufmann
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:05:26 +0200, "fanni001"
wrote:

...WHAT - A - DISASTER!!!

My tech specs:

WinXP home SP2
Abit IS7 mobo
P4c HT 2.60ghz
1 gb Kingston Dual channel PC3200/DDR400 Value RAM
Maxtor 80gb 7200rpm/8mb on a seralell (Siralell?) adapter
Maxtor 40gb 7200/2MB storage disc
New Pioneer DVD drive
Sony burner
x800xl AGP made by ATI, 256/256bit 400gpu / 980RAM...
-- Product ID: 100-435508
-- using Omega 5.9 drivers only, thus far

On first attempt, using the fully upgraded Far Cry 1.33, the computer
shuts down fully, power all the way off, taking much MB electricity with
it, as takes 3 minutes to be able to turn it on again. This happens time
after
time and it played fine, if a little slow, using the old GF4 Ti4600. by
Chaintech.

After the second occurance I increased the AGP voltage by a half a point
as well as the same for the P4 CPU... then I was able to start the game
and
play a while at increased graphics levels and some types shadows for
smaller objects were not black, but green and yellow. When driving a
vehicle
it froze after a while, then it was all over for good, and same story.

I must have worked with this for 5 hours, and gone through 25 restarts...
Anyone know what can be done before I grab a replacement RMA?



Use all "default" settings for mobo and graphics card. Use default ATI
drivers and not Omega. And make certain it's not the PSU. A poor 450W unit
will cough and splutter . I found this out a while back with mine. It was a
no name cheap-o and with 2 burners, 2 Kingston RAM modules, ATI X800PRO, USB
devices etc, etc..it would freeze playing certain games. Far Cry was one.


My system:
Abit NF7-S with 3200+ cpu, 2 GB ram dual channel, ATI X850 XT, 3
maxtor drives, 2 CD/DVD burners, usb webcam, ethernet card, usb 2.0
self powered hub, ATI TV Tuner PCI, HP parallel port printer, usb
webcam and I think all the rest is plugged into the usb hub. The
system is powered by an Antec 480W True Power supply. I am running
Windows XP Pro SP2 and the latest ATI driver.

As luck would have it I bought a new mouse (Logtech G5) and installed
the Far Cry demo to give it a try. The mouse acted very strangely and
slowed down many times. I played around with the mouse a bit but I
could not get this game to work properly. Since the mouse works as
advertised with other games like Unreal Tournament I blamed Far Cry
and uninstalled it.

If the problem I am having with Far Cry is caused by my power supply -
why does this game need so much power? Also what is the recommended
power supply?

Thanks,
Al



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Old October 7th 05, 07:24 PM
Alfie [UK]
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On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 15:13:06 GMT, Al Kaufmann
wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:05:26 +0200, "fanni001"
wrote:

As luck would have it I bought a new mouse (Logtech G5) and installed
the Far Cry demo to give it a try. The mouse acted very strangely and
slowed down many times. I played around with the mouse a bit but I
could not get this game to work properly. Since the mouse works as
advertised with other games like Unreal Tournament I blamed Far Cry
and uninstalled it.

If the problem I am having with Far Cry is caused by my power supply -
why does this game need so much power? Also what is the recommended
power supply?

The OP was advised it may be a problem with power supply because of the
shutdowns. Most new graphics card need 1 or 2 direct power connections
and this means a 300w PSU just won't cut it anymore. If you draw too
much power the PSU will shutdown to stop it burning out. Equally if you
have a too high rated PSU and are not drawing a significant power level
the PSU can shutdown, act erratically, or blow it's 12v rails through
'overheating'. This is more of a problem with the cheaper PSUs as they
do not have such a stable output.

A good test is to use this calculator to see if you have an appropriate
level of power; http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/

You want at least 20% more power coming out of your PSU than the
calculator says you need to be safe from the typical fluctuations you
can get in a PSU, especially cheaper PSUs that might not have a stable
power profile. Over 65% more power means you are at risk of damaging
your PSU through 'overheating' as it's generating a lot more power than
you need.

With regard to your problems with FarCry, do you have the Logitech
drivers installed as some drivers are known to be flakey (and usually
only with some software which makes you scratch your head as to whether
it's the software or the drivers causing the problem) ?
--
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http://www.delphia.co.uk/
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