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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Saurdaukar on November 02, 2003, 03:21:56 PM
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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?
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Might try stepping back to the Cat 3.7's
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cc - ty. Ill post if its a fix.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 :aok
P42.4Gig
1Gig 2700 Ram
ATI 9700 Pro
Audigy 2 Sound Card
P4G8X Asus MB
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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 :aok
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.
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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.
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Thx SK!