Author Topic: Hard lock-ups (Read 1147 times)

Eagler · « **Reply #30 on:** March 27, 2007, 09:58:42 PM »

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Originally posted by 38ruk
Its the third one up from the bottom , here is the title .

AMD Opteron™ Processor with AMD PowerNow!™ Technology Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) 1.3.2.16

It's date is july 2006 Good luck

~~thanks, I found it was lookng at your first link b4 ..~~

TexInVa · « **Reply #31 on:** March 29, 2007, 07:32:40 PM »

Last ditch effort, try setting your sound hardware acceleration to 3/4 vs Full.

Bruv119 · « **Reply #32 on:** March 30, 2007, 12:37:37 AM »

Update.

I believe my problem to be resolved. I logged 9 hours yesterday and the day before without having one gfx glitch.

Was a driver problem after all. When I first set the machine up with the CD drivers ANY game would hard lock up after 5 minutes and AH randomly. After racking my brains out to cure this problem I most likely sorted out whatever the issue was.

I used driver cleaner and re-installed the CD drivers and no more gfx glitches. Also moved RAM into a different slot but I believe it to be me corrupting the drivers when I was losing patience with it...

All Nvidia and AH remarks taken back!

Look forward to killing you all with graphics maxed, smooth and pretty.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Bruv
~S~

HomeBoy · « **Reply #33 on:** March 30, 2007, 07:54:05 AM »

Good news! Glad to hear it Bruv.

I'd still like to see your vid settings some time. I spent an entire evening playing with settings using nhancer. I ended up with something very close to what I started out with ("Balanced"). Oh well. You have you texture size set at 1024 right? And all the sliders set to max in game?

Honestly, I couldn't tell that much difference even when I maxed out the graphics settings from a balanced setting. It looks pretty darn good either way. I do get sort of a "twinkle" from the water and ground terrain. It would be nice to tone that down but haven't figured out how.

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Bruv119 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 30, 2007, 11:06:11 AM »

I have Hi-res 1024,
16xAA
16x anisoptric filtering
v sync on
should be rock solid at or around 60FPS at all times.
everything max in game

I have animated water off because although it looks nice it seems to reflect like glass and I never got used to it. When turn fighting over it sometimes the sea was much closer than i thought it was

I'm just glad its sorted now I will look forward to getting one of the latest graphic intensive games and testing it out properly, AH just doesnt do the card justice at all.

But the reason we put it in was future proofing yes?

Bruv
~S~

Mister Fork · « **Reply #35 on:** March 30, 2007, 02:02:22 PM »

Apart the fact that my hijacked thread got one players issue resolved (jk bruv), I still can't play AH with all the settings enabled.

I'm forced to play with 256 textures, hardware accel off, and default video settings. I can tell you that my ATI 9700 pro never had any issues.

Bruv - what VERSION of the drivers are you using? The one that came with the video card?

Bruv119 · « **Reply #36 on:** March 31, 2007, 12:42:51 AM »

apologies fork! homeboy and myself built nearly the exact same machine around the same time and he gave me confidence to try and sort mine out as his worked ok.

The spinning clipboard problem seems to be related with dual core AMD machines have you followed the link posted above?

My advice in regards to changing between drivers make sure you uninstall the nvidia from add remove programs. reboot into safe mode by hitting f8 on start up run driver cleaner. also do the cab files. restart normally then run your driver CD. also make sure directx is installed properly also.

I have a 8800GTS which can only run 97.28, 97.92, 100x at first use the CD ones.

If its a PCI-E card go into the bios and change PCI latency timer usually default is 64 change it to 128. this has been explained in a diff thread by Kev367th.

Rolex · « **Reply #37 on:** March 31, 2007, 01:23:12 AM »

Note: anisoptric filtering is not used so you can turn it off.

TexInVa · « **Reply #38 on:** March 31, 2007, 07:43:42 AM »

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Originally posted by Bruv119
If its a PCI-E card go into the bios and change PCI latency timer usually default is 64 change it to 128. this has been explained in a diff thread by Kev367th.

PCI-E video cards DO NOT have latancy timers. This is only effective for AGP cards.

Mister Fork · « **Reply #39 on:** March 31, 2007, 08:32:25 PM »

thanks for the tips. will give it a try.

Mister Fork · « **Reply #40 on:** March 31, 2007, 10:36:33 PM »

Well... after installing the AMD drivers and then the nVidia drivers that came with my video card, it's running peachy smooth now. How did I do this?

First thing first, I installed Drive Cleaner Pro (2+) and the AMD drivers for dual core XP.

I Then:
a) Went into control panel - Add/Remove Programs.
b) Uninstalled current nVidia Driver
c) Rebooted into Safe Mode
d) Ran Drive Cleaner Pro and uninstalled nVidia and nVidia WDM
e) In the view options for Explorer, unchecked hide system files and hidden folders
f) Did a search for nv*.dll and "Nvidia display" in the 'search for text in files' inside of C:\Windows
g) Deleted any additional files I saw
h) Popped in the OEM driver disk from nVidia video card (did not install anything here)
f) Rebooted machine
g) When it found my video card, pointed it to the drivers on the CD. Selected the correct video driver
h) Rebooted

Presto. Been playing AH for a few hours with no spinning clipboard or lockups. Getting a sold 60fps in all maps and modes. Gonna try 512 textures then 1024. Hopefully all will be good!

Bruv119 · « **Reply #41 on:** April 01, 2007, 01:05:51 AM »

Congrats fork,

Glad you got it sorted!

Bruv
~S~

HomeBoy · « **Reply #42 on:** April 01, 2007, 04:31:42 PM »

Glad your problems are solved Fork. Sorry, Bruv and I hijacked the thread. It was with good intentions of course.

And now back to the hijack...

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Originally posted by Bruv119
I'm just glad its sorted now I will look forward to getting one of the latest graphic intensive games and testing it out properly, AH just doesnt do the card justice at all.
Bruv
~S~

This weekend, I reloaded FS2004 with all my terrain addons, airplanes, etc. FS IMHO is the most resource intensive game I have ever run across (and I understand X is even worse!). To my surprise, I am able to run 2004 maxed out. I get FRs dropping in the low 30's (flying low over NYC in rain at dusk; worst conditions I could come up with). I have NEVER had a machine that could run any of the MSFS with full sliders before. It looks beautiful. I can even hover the R22 which I've never been able to do before.