System stalls during first few seconds of gaming!

Bootup05 · 06-01-2006, 06:00 PM

Hey peeps,

Just got my new system up n running, took a while to get all the sortware cofigured without conflicions and all that but I eventually got there.
However, Just instaled GTA San Andreas and I have started getting a problem,
You start the game up, it enters the 2D part and is fine, when the actual gameplay part comes up where you start and the graphics transform to 3D the system just stalls for about 5 seconds, sometimes making the sound also stall and then comes back into life and works fine.

This happens every time I go into the game, though it could be the system changing from 560Mhz graphics core (2D) to 590Mhz (3D), so I changed them both to 590Mhz and still get the prob.

Also tryed setting card to stock, and no success, about to set the CPU to stock to see if that makes any difference.

There is one other thing that could be causing the problems, I do not have any external power to this card, its one of them that doesn't need it and has no PCI-E power socket, what I was thinking was that the card may not be getting enough power and may have to wait to load all the detail up, which causes a graphics and system stall.

Anybody got any other suggestions?

Any replies are greatly appreciated.
Just don't get what the prob is as this only happens whilst 3D gaming

Thanks!

mrjack · 06-01-2006, 07:58 PM

Have you updated GTASA and your GPU drivers?

Bootup05 · 06-01-2006, 08:39 PM

Yeah my graphics drivers are all up to date, and this has started to happen on any game now

reedbananaboat · 06-07-2006, 01:51 PM

your proble is your power supply unit when you activate 3d rendering your gpu needs a lot of extra power so it pulls all it can get so does your cpu and ram and your motherboard.
the only reason i know this is because im dealing with this very same problem. right now.

so i would research a little into power supply units and determine how many "amps" i have on my 12v rail. *read power supplys 101* int the power supply and cooling part if this forum and you will know what im talking about.

06-01-2006, 06:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bootup05 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Essex, UK Age: 17 Posts: 1,266	System stalls during first few seconds of gaming! Hey peeps, Just got my new system up n running, took a while to get all the sortware cofigured without conflicions and all that but I eventually got there. However, Just instaled GTA San Andreas and I have started getting a problem, You start the game up, it enters the 2D part and is fine, when the actual gameplay part comes up where you start and the graphics transform to 3D the system just stalls for about 5 seconds, sometimes making the sound also stall and then comes back into life and works fine. This happens every time I go into the game, though it could be the system changing from 560Mhz graphics core (2D) to 590Mhz (3D), so I changed them both to 590Mhz and still get the prob. Also tryed setting card to stock, and no success, about to set the CPU to stock to see if that makes any difference. There is one other thing that could be causing the problems, I do not have any external power to this card, its one of them that doesn't need it and has no PCI-E power socket, what I was thinking was that the card may not be getting enough power and may have to wait to load all the detail up, which causes a graphics and system stall. Anybody got any other suggestions? Any replies are greatly appreciated. Just don't get what the prob is as this only happens whilst 3D gaming Thanks! __________________ Main System Proccy - Intel E6400 @ 3440 \| Mobo - P5B DLX \| RAM - 2GB TwinX 6400 C5 \| GPU - 96GT HDD - WD 400GB Caviar SE - WD 320GB Caviar SE - 160GB Seagate Ext Monitor - Asus 19" Wide LCD \| PSU - Tagan 600W Dual Engine \| Soundcard - SB Live Ext 24 Heatsink - S Infinity \| Optical - Pioneer DVDRW \| OS - Vista Ult64 SP1

06-01-2006, 07:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
mrjack VIP Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Finland Age: 17 Posts: 2,344	Have you updated GTASA and your GPU drivers? __________________ Main rig: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3GHz \| MSI P7N Zilent 2x2048Mb OCZ Titanium 800MHz DDR2 Samsung Spinpoint T166 320Gb SATAII Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250Gb SATAII Western Digital Caviar SE 160Gb SATAII MSI NX8800GT OC 512Mb @ 660MHz/950MHz Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio \| Antec Truepower Trio 550W

06-01-2006, 08:39 PM	#3 (permalink)
Bootup05 Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Essex, UK Age: 17 Posts: 1,266	Yeah my graphics drivers are all up to date, and this has started to happen on any game now __________________ Main System Proccy - Intel E6400 @ 3440 \| Mobo - P5B DLX \| RAM - 2GB TwinX 6400 C5 \| GPU - 96GT HDD - WD 400GB Caviar SE - WD 320GB Caviar SE - 160GB Seagate Ext Monitor - Asus 19" Wide LCD \| PSU - Tagan 600W Dual Engine \| Soundcard - SB Live Ext 24 Heatsink - S Infinity \| Optical - Pioneer DVDRW \| OS - Vista Ult64 SP1

06-07-2006, 01:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
reedbananaboat Bronze Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 63	your proble is your power supply unit when you activate 3d rendering your gpu needs a lot of extra power so it pulls all it can get so does your cpu and ram and your motherboard. the only reason i know this is because im dealing with this very same problem. right now. so i would research a little into power supply units and determine how many "amps" i have on my 12v rail. read power supplys 101 int the power supply and cooling part if this forum and you will know what im talking about. __________________ Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.40E Ghz Prescott Caches: Level 1 :48 KB Level 2 :1 MB NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS CO SUPERCLOCKED 460 MHz GPU 16 Pixel Pipelines 400 MHz RAMDAC (1600 effetive) OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM Unbuffered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Platinum System Memory MSI 865PE NEO 2-P w/SEAGATE 160GB SATA HDD Powered by:ASPIRE ATX-AS520W BLACK ATX 520W +12V@35A Cooled by: Zalman CNPS9500 LED+Arctic Silver 5 (prescott never breaks 40 C)

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