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Games crashing 9700-Pro all of a sudden
Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry,
Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Is there something that (perhaps I'm not aware of) I should be doing with this new fangled XP? No jokes please! I mean I can fully understand it having trouble running old games, but these are all pretty new and XP-compatible. I, of course, have made sure I'm using XP-specific drivers. By the way, does XP make things run hotter? Or is that just an old wives' tale? Here are my system specs for those of you who might want to know: AMD 2600XP XP home Audigy 2 Radeon 9700 Pro x8 AGP 512 DDR 3200 RAM 160GB HD 7200RPM (primary - lots of space) 80GB HD 7200 RPM Duel fan PSU 1 'intake fan' 1 'outlet' fan I guess a lot of that is irrelevant, but you never know and I'm getting kinda desperate ( Oh well, I hope some of you can provide me with a few tips. Thanks all |
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1. Witch drivers are you using ? ( 4.4' work the best for me
everything after that caused problems ) 2.Turn off vpu recover that makes only problems from what i've herd 3. What kind of power supply you got ? On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:10:15 GMT, "Di Farker" wrote: Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry, Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Is there something that (perhaps I'm not aware of) I should be doing with this new fangled XP? No jokes please! I mean I can fully understand it having trouble running old games, but these are all pretty new and XP-compatible. I, of course, have made sure I'm using XP-specific drivers. By the way, does XP make things run hotter? Or is that just an old wives' tale? Here are my system specs for those of you who might want to know: AMD 2600XP XP home Audigy 2 Radeon 9700 Pro x8 AGP 512 DDR 3200 RAM 160GB HD 7200RPM (primary - lots of space) 80GB HD 7200 RPM Duel fan PSU 1 'intake fan' 1 'outlet' fan I guess a lot of that is irrelevant, but you never know and I'm getting kinda desperate ( Oh well, I hope some of you can provide me with a few tips. Thanks all |
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"Di Farker" wrote in message
... Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry, Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Is there something that (perhaps I'm not aware of) I should be doing with this new fangled XP? No jokes please! I mean I can fully understand it having trouble running old games, but these are all pretty new and XP-compatible. I, of course, have made sure I'm using XP-specific drivers. By the way, does XP make things run hotter? Or is that just an old wives' tale? Here are my system specs for those of you who might want to know: AMD 2600XP XP home Audigy 2 Radeon 9700 Pro x8 AGP 512 DDR 3200 RAM 160GB HD 7200RPM (primary - lots of space) 80GB HD 7200 RPM Duel fan PSU 1 'intake fan' 1 'outlet' fan I guess a lot of that is irrelevant, but you never know and I'm getting kinda desperate ( Oh well, I hope some of you can provide me with a few tips. Thanks all Check the BIOS do you have APIC mode enabled ? Windows 98 doesn't support APIC mode but Windows XP does - so if you install Windows XP with APIC mode enabled XP will be in APIC mode - this can cause the problems you are describing - its known as the infinite loop. Its not as easy as just disabling APIC mode however you gotta disable it then do a repair install or re-install of Windows XP to get it to run in PIC mode as it was doing under Windows 98. |
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heat issue
"Di Farker" wrote in message ... Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry, Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Is there something that (perhaps I'm not aware of) I should be doing with this new fangled XP? No jokes please! I mean I can fully understand it having trouble running old games, but these are all pretty new and XP-compatible. I, of course, have made sure I'm using XP-specific drivers. By the way, does XP make things run hotter? Or is that just an old wives' tale? Here are my system specs for those of you who might want to know: AMD 2600XP XP home Audigy 2 Radeon 9700 Pro x8 AGP 512 DDR 3200 RAM 160GB HD 7200RPM (primary - lots of space) 80GB HD 7200 RPM Duel fan PSU 1 'intake fan' 1 'outlet' fan I guess a lot of that is irrelevant, but you never know and I'm getting kinda desperate ( Oh well, I hope some of you can provide me with a few tips. Thanks all |
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"Di Farker" wrote in message
... Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry, Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Try turning fast write off - when i had that on i had random lockups but when i turned it off it made my computer completely stable.. |
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Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry,
Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. Be sure to get latest AGP chipset motherboard drivers. VIA 4in1 is VIA chipset. RAM timing issues should be looked after that. Check the forums at http://rage3d.com for best info. -Kent |
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Make sure you installed your chipset drivers. And also try AGP 4x
instead of 8x. 8x made my computer crash all the time with games. Di Farker wrote: Recently I did a clean install of XP and now a lot of my 3D games (Farcry, Unreal 2, Painkiller etc) all crash for seemingly no reason. They either turn the monitor off, freeze themselves or even reboot the entire machine. This sought of thing did not happen on '98'. It is the same machine with the same components and it's all patched up (although older patches didn't seem to help either). I'm pretty sure it is the GFC card because I often get VPU errors saying that the card needs resetting. Sometimes I can carry on and sometimes it just freezes. The longer I go on for, the more chance there is of a 'mess up'. I wondered about overheating so (despite the fact that I didn't have to with my old OS) I ran the PC with the case off, but had no luck. Is there something that (perhaps I'm not aware of) I should be doing with this new fangled XP? No jokes please! I mean I can fully understand it having trouble running old games, but these are all pretty new and XP-compatible. I, of course, have made sure I'm using XP-specific drivers. By the way, does XP make things run hotter? Or is that just an old wives' tale? Here are my system specs for those of you who might want to know: AMD 2600XP XP home Audigy 2 Radeon 9700 Pro x8 AGP 512 DDR 3200 RAM 160GB HD 7200RPM (primary - lots of space) 80GB HD 7200 RPM Duel fan PSU 1 'intake fan' 1 'outlet' fan I guess a lot of that is irrelevant, but you never know and I'm getting kinda desperate ( Oh well, I hope some of you can provide me with a few tips. Thanks all |
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Check the BIOS do you have APIC mode enabled ? Windows 98 doesn't support
APIC mode but Windows XP does - so if you install Windows XP with APIC mode enabled XP will be in APIC mode - this can cause the problems you are describing - its known as the infinite loop. I had a look and, sure enough, it is enabled. I disabled but the PC wouldn't go to the desktop, so I enabled it again. Its not as easy as just disabling APIC mode however you gotta disable it then do a repair install or re-install of Windows XP to get it to run in PIC mode as it was doing under Windows 98. I haven't heard of a 'repair install' before, is it easy to do? Thanks |
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Try turning fast write off - when i had that on i had random lockups but
when i turned it off it made my computer completely stable.. Thanks, but I've just found out that it already is turned off ( |
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"Di Farker" wrote in message ... Try turning fast write off - when i had that on i had random lockups but when i turned it off it made my computer completely stable.. Thanks, but I've just found out that it already is turned off ( Make sure you are not using WindowsXP default video drivers. They do not support OpenGL. You said this was a fresh install, but I saw no mention of going to www.ati.com to get the latest drivers for your card. Of course, load the newest chipset drivers before your vid card drivers. Good luck. |
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