GRAPHICS/BF2 problem

bigsaucybob

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I got my new ati x800 xl a few days ago and installation was a breeze. I started playing bf2 on 1024x768 or something like that with all high settings excpet for 2 settings on medium. And it runs quite smoothly for the first hour or so but it could be 2 minutes after an hour or an hour after an hour(2hours) and it freezes and goes to a blue screen where i cant do anything but turn it off.
I dont really know wat this could be but i think its overheating, which i find hard. I have an 80mm fan about 3 inches away from the card supplying it wit plenty of cool air to suck into the heatsink. So im a kinda confused, is it becasue its overheating or becasue it simply cant handle the almost all high settings?


Thanks
 
What error does the blue screen give you? It will tell you if it's a driver problem, or the games problem...with a little research on the error code it gives you.
 
sounds like chipset options in your bios. im pretty sure its a 256 meg 256bit ram card, so you want to set your appature in your bios to 256, not 128 (128 is the default, change it) next make sure the AGP frequency is set to 66. nothing more. for heat (which its more than likely not a heat issue) make sure you have AT LEAST 2 fans in your case, one fan blowing IN, one fan blowing OUT. that simple. if your unfamilure in your bios just post back and i can walk you though. before your video card overheats and freezes you will see lines and artifacts eminating from the dead center of the screen and they radiate out, since this isnt what you described, its not heat. bios settings. many things detirmine system stability. i can list out a tutorial, im new here so i dont know the admins yet, maybe i can have it stickyed.
 
I had this happen to me twice now on my 9800 Pro. Whilst playing BF2 a blank blue screen appears and you have to restart.

Dunno what it is though.
 
1337cshacker said:
sounds like chipset options in your bios. im pretty sure its a 256 meg 256bit ram card, so you want to set your appature in your bios to 256, not 128 (128 is the default, change it) next make sure the AGP frequency is set to 66. nothing more. for heat (which its more than likely not a heat issue) make sure you have AT LEAST 2 fans in your case, one fan blowing IN, one fan blowing OUT. that simple. if your unfamilure in your bios just post back and i can walk you though. before your video card overheats and freezes you will see lines and artifacts eminating from the dead center of the screen and they radiate out, since this isnt what you described, its not heat. bios settings. many things detirmine system stability. i can list out a tutorial, im new here so i dont know the admins yet, maybe i can have it stickyed.

I have four fans 2 blowing in and 2 blowing out, one is pointing at the card. Its a pci-e card and yea it has 256mb of ram. And with the bios i really have no idea wat that is and if i do change it is there anything that can go wrong or is it only benefitial if thats not the problem?
 
bigsaucybob said:
I have four fans 2 blowing in and 2 blowing out, one is pointing at the card. Its a pci-e card and yea it has 256mb of ram. And with the bios i really have no idea wat that is and if i do change it is there anything that can go wrong or is it only benefitial if thats not the problem?
dont worry its only benifical. just look and jot down what i said before what to do. go into your bios (del key or whatever it is for your mobo at system startup)
and look for either "cell menu" or "chipset options" in there you will find agp appature (change to 256), default video (default is PCI change to AGP), and AGP frequency (change to 66). this will work. yw in advance.
 
i reccomend also that u dump the ATI catylist stock drivers. i had graphics corruption on bf2 running all on high..using that and then i switched to Omega Drivers. they improved peformance, stability, and speed.

www.omegadrivers.net
 
Hi, i just got the same problem again, and restarted. I sent the error report to windows and i got

''Analysis Information

Thank you for submitting an error report.

Your system crashed because the random access memory containing Windows program code was corrupted. Microsoft is unable to determine if this corruption was caused by a hardware or software issue. The nature of the corruption suggests that a hardware issue is more likely. To determine if this is the case, Microsoft developed a Windows memory diagnostic that tests your PC memory.

We recommend you download and run this tool on your computer system. On most configurations, you can download the diagnostic, read the documentation, run the test and complete the test pass in less than 30 minutes. Click here to get started''.
 
That's a lod of hooey! lol Basically they send you a memory test program whne they can't figure out what in the heck is wrong with your machine. MANY errors spawn this result from M$.

I would try the Omega drivers too if you want. I've used them before and they weren't bad at all. Catalyst is a bit bloated for me.
 
can someone possibly give me a link directly to the omega drivers site where i can download for my x800 xl. And wat microsoft said is a load of crap right?

thanks
 
bigsaucybob said:
can someone possibly give me a link directly to the omega drivers site where i can download for my x800 xl. And wat microsoft said is a load of crap right?

thanks

not necessarily all crap, i've jsut found that the M$ help you get is usually just general nonsense that anybody could tell you.

"Hey, my computer rebooted!" - your problem
"Oh, it must be having a [insert any computer hardware part here] problem" - general response

That's what M$ seems to do. Randomly list hardware errors and tell you computer was unstable. But then you fin out it was jsut a driver error, and M$ told you that you needed to go buy new RAM or something.
 
i highly doubt omega drivers will make it more stable. the omega drivers were mainly designed for the 9xxx series cards. with my experiences, catalyst were always more stable.
 
1337cshacker said:
i highly doubt omega drivers will make it more stable. the omega drivers were mainly designed for the 9xxx series cards. with my experiences, catalyst were always more stable.

well.. my old fx5200 did run more stable on omega drivers.. :rolleyes:
 
''The nature of the corruption suggests that a hardware issue is more likely.''

LOL, they would say that seeing as they are the makers of the software :rolleyes:
 
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