Strange ATI driver issue

[Saurdaukar]

For those of you that remember - I was in the process of shopping fdor a new vid card.

I ended up with an ATI 9600Pro and I love it... but.

Playing certain games causes an interesting fault.  Thus far Ive had the problem playing Homeworld 2 and Call to Duty (pretty good so far).

The screen will go black, the game will continue to operate (sound, my inputs cause reactions, etc) and I get a message saying something to the effect of 'driver software failed to communicate with video card' or some such garbage.

Latest drivers installed - and I even tried one of those Omega drivers - both to no avail.

Any ideas to help me enjoy a game longer than 25 minutes at a time?

[Furious]

Might try stepping back to the  Cat 3.7's

[Saurdaukar]

cc - ty.  Ill post if its a fix.

[airguard]

Could be a heat problem too, open the case and try playing with the one side off and see if the game still shuts down.
If it does its probably not heat.

Just a tough since you can play for some time and then locks up.

[Saurdaukar]

Got it - apparently the ATI cars dont like HW2 shadows.

The CoD problem is still ongoing.

Definiately not a heat issue, BTW - thanks for help all.

[SunKing]

The COD bug is effecting all of us Raedon users. Just gotta wait for a driver update or patch. Don't bother trying every versoin of the CAT drivers.. users have spent the time and nothing has changed.  Meantime play RO so i can give you some Kar loving.

[boxboy28]

Saur - i had the same problems with COD it only hasppens in the 2nd and 3rd level (old demos levels) once i got passed that it stopped happening.  By the way im already up to the russin segment already too RTed Square and moving on, im playing it on the :" normal level" but  what sucks is in the 1st stage of the russian segment they dont givi you a gun just 1 clip of ammo!:aok   but i got past that pretty easy Key thig remember to quick save alot when your playing thAT game specially if your still getting lock ups:aok

[Scot]

Hail All,

I found that selecting "optimal settings" for your system and not adjusting any video or sound choices has stopped the crashing for my system. The minute I change a video or sound setting the crashes come back. Hope they get a fix soon.

COD is a hoot

P42.4Gig
1Gig 2700 Ram
ATI 9700 Pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
P4G8X Asus MB

[SunKing]

Originally posted by Scot
Hail All,

I found that selecting "optimal settings" for your system and not adjusting any video or sound choices has stopped the crashing for my system. The minute I change a video or sound setting the crashes come back. Hope they get a fix soon.

COD is a hoot

P42.4Gig
1Gig 2700 Ram
ATI 9700 Pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
P4G8X Asus MB

but thats a bunch of garbage. were forced to play a game at low settings just to get it to work...  I'll wait for a fix so I don't spoil the game for myself.

[SunKing]

A supposed fix for COD ATI users.

"The following setting config entries make CoD freeze when TruForm is DISABLED and they work fine when TruForm is set to APPLICATION PREFERENCE:
# set truform_tess to 4
# seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotro pic "1"
# ati_fsaa_samples to 16
# seta r_skip_auto_config "1"

The following config entries let me play CoD no matter what my settings are (including Fast Writes and EXTRA texture/model settings):

# set truform_tess to 0
# seta r_ext_texture_filter_anisotro pic "1"
# ati_fsaa_samples to 16
# seta r_skip_auto_config "1"   "


taken from COD forums.

[Scot]

Thx SK!