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"Rather Urgent-ish -- Constant Crashing"

It's my our old friend - my dad's PC.

A while ago, he got a new Gfx card - ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, Tyan Tachyon make.

Anyways, recently it's been freezing after about 1-2 minutes of playing Moh:AA.

It used to be fine, it's all so suddenly. Moh: AA Breakthrough (the Expansion) was fine also.

So what's going on?
It's all (seems to be) installed properly.
It has a built on thermometer thingy, and checking that before play, it's only touching 30 degrees C, and the danger area is 70.

Hmm.
Help!

(And MOD - I'm going to slap you if you touch this thread)

I know this shoulds simple, but make sure you have it in the right mode (32 or 16 bit). I have a friend who was moaning that his Gfx card wasn't playing games, and when I told him to check that they worked. Otherwise have you recently downloaded a new Direct X? That did in my card until they released a new one (annoyed me just a bit, that did). Erm... Have you checked the voltages under strain? My AGP gets a bit unstable if I overclock my CPU past 2.8 GHz and no matter what I do the voltage always gets to low and the card turns off. Apart from that I carn't think of anything.

Does the same problem happen in other games or is it just mohaa, if it is just mohaa it might be worth saving the saved games and re-installing it, if it is not just while gaming then you may have a faulty video card or memory chip, try downloading sisoft sandra benchmarking and use the burnin test then see what happens, also did you try disabling all the background applications.

Colin

Azul wrote:
> Hmm.
>
> The built on fan spins wonderfully enough, and it certainly doesn't
> feel 164 degrees to the touch.

Yeah, i think it may be a a little inaccurate. Otherwise your graphics card could boil water.

Exactly why I said "apparantly".

Anyways, that's what I've returned to tell you - I kicked it and it gave the proper reading.
Well, not really.

But all the readings are 38 ish now, and seem good.

But it's still crashing.

I've set OpenGL and DirectX settings to Optimal Performance rather than Quality.

But it's still happening. Grr.

Tomorrow, I'm going to try the card in my comp, see if it crashes here.

Hi mate

Have you tried anything i have suggested and if so what was the outcome.

Cheers

Colin

AMD_MAN wrote:
> Does the same problem happen in other games or is it just mohaa, if it
> is just mohaa it might be worth saving the saved games and
> re-installing it, if it is not just while gaming then you may have a
> faulty video card or memory chip, try downloading sisoft sandra
> benchmarking and use the burnin test then see what happens, also did
> you try disabling all the background applications.
>
> Colin

Sorry mate.
Right, the drivers are the newest already, I'd already tried re-installing MoH: AA - same thing keeps happening. It was happening with Vietcong as well.
It appears to be while gaming only.
I'm going to try the card in my comp - see if it works alright, and if it doesn't, it's the card, if it does, it's something else.

I'll try the benchmarking thing after that. I'll update you then.

Azul wrote:
> Anyone?

Bet you wish you had thought of a better title now ;¬/
Mod!

Who is this mod kid, is he getting on anyone elses nerves or is it just me?

colin

He's annoying everyone.

Anyway, I think we've pinpointed the problem.

The card worked perfectly well on my comp.

It was crashing on his with the games (Moh) setting at their lowest.

It worked perfectly well on my comp with the setting at their highest qualities.

So, I now think it could be his CPU overheating, as there isn't a fan on it, and it's rather hot indeed after it has crashed.

So, is a fan the answer?

And by the way, my comp has about 193128 fans, and his has 2.

He hasn't got one over the CPU, which is why I think this is the problem.