AH has encountered a problem...

[[Sg]ShotGun]

and needs to be shut down. Is what  MS error screen tells me.

I was flying my 262 when I went to strafe a town. Right after I blew the building I get discoed, lose half my perks for the jet and comp locks up.

Why cant the error message TELL me what the problem is, sound, vid, memory.

any advice?

all this being equal, its the first time I took out the jet after re earning enuff perks for it. Its the lose of the points when I discoed that burns me.

[Skuzzy]

More than likely it is driver related, which takes control away from the game, so we cannot really post up an error message.

Without more information I can guess.  If you have a 6000 or pre-7900 series NVidia video card, try using the 82.xx drivers, and not the 84.xx drivers.  Also make sure you do not preload textures into video memory.

If this is far from the beaten trail, please send in a DXDIAG output.  The information onhow to do so is located in the "Hints and Tips" post at the top of this forum.

[straffo]

Originally posted by [Sg]ShotGun
Why cant the error message TELL me what the problem is, sound, vid, memory.

it's quite difficult to speak with a dead... you can try a medium

[NHawk]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
....

Without more information I can guess.  If you have a 6000 or pre-7900 series NVidia video card, try using the 82.xx drivers, and not the 84.xx drivers.  Also make sure you do not preload textures into video memory.

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I may be missing something here, but the NV web site skips from 81.98 to 83.62. I use the 81.98 forceware driver, but can find no mention of an 82.xx driver.

[Skuzzy]

Ok, use the 81.xx.  Point being, the 84.xx drivers have a serious memory management issue when the video RAM gets full and has to swap textures in and out of system RAM.

Preloading textures into video RAM makes the problem far, far worse.

[[Sg]ShotGun]

oops sorry

radeon 9700
1g of kingston mem
p4 3.0mhz

on board AC97 5.1 sound.

[Skuzzy]

Use the Catalyst 4.12 drivers and the ATI Control Panel for the 9700.

[[Sg]ShotGun]

well i got the 412s, but it seems the panel is MIA. obviously the panel is not in the 412 ZIP file??

also, to install this file, it is the normal 'change driver to standard vga, delete all ATI files (i got the 614s and the center now), reboot', and then install the  412s??

ok...just got 'A' control panel..its the 613 version...is that the correct version?

[Skuzzy]

In ATI's download page, where the 4.12 driver are, there are several options.  Read them carefully.  You want the driver and the control panel.  It is two separate downloads.

Install the driver first, then after the computer reboots, install the control panel.

Of course, remove the current drivers and control panel (if you remove the driver, the control panel is removed at the same time).

I would link to the files you need, but ATI's site no longer allows direct links.

[2bighorn]

EDIT: I hate ATI customer support!!!

[Skuzzy]

That link does not work.

[2bighorn]

Right, buggers are using sessions now... Shoot 'em!

[[Sg]ShotGun]

When you say to delete the current ATI components, is that just delete the file(s) from my computors control panel and/or change my computors vid driver from ATI to standard vga and THEN install the 412s?