problems with new g/card

ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

I'm having problems with my 9600 256mb card Crying or Very sad

everything was running fine the first day i had it but now every time I run fs9 after about half a hour it freezes up and a warning message appears saying something about VPU recover and about it not running normally any more Mad

.I have tried everything to my knowledge d/loading new drivers,reinstalilng fs9,deleting the old drivers have also tried reinstalling XP(which takes ages) nothing has worked and it was all a waste of time.Help would be very much appreciated.

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

It's the new drivers for your card that's causing the problem.
Go to ATI and download older drivers, I think there were a 4.1 driver, use it and make certain that you have cleaned out the old drivers before loading the new ones.
Reload DirectX 9.0c in case it became corrupted and use the old control panel for your card instead if the new one and that crummy .Net from MS.
Let us know how you do.

Radar

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ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

Thanks for the advice but i downloaded 4.1 from ATI and couldn't install it Confused

. The message was to install standard VGA drivers first. But I have already done that Question

.Any more sugestions.

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject:

Forget that message you didn't touch the VGA drivers. Just "do your thing".
Uninstall the video drivers in "safe mode" if you have to then go back to Windows and install the video drivers.
When you reboot Windows should forget about the VGA drivers.
If you uninstalled the video drivers already which ones are you running the card on.
You can find out by going to /start/run/and type in dixdiag, that'll tell you what drivers are loaded and you can test them there also.

Radar

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ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

It still won't install Mad

.Its proberly something I'm doing wrong.Thanks for your sugestions anyway

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

What drivers are you using now.

Radar

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ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

I installed everything that came on the installatoin disc that came with the hardware(peak radeon 9600pro 256mb card)I'm an a amateur at this so I dont now what the drivers on the disc are Embarassed

.The 4.1 drivers refused to install what ever i did.Sorry if this did not help

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject:

They usually put old drivers on the disk, how are they working.
If you keep having problems you can run it in the Window mode (Alt+Enter) it should run better there for now.

You can find out by going to /start/run/and type in dixdiag, that'll tell you what drivers are loaded and you can test them there also.

Don't forget you have to go to the control panel to uninstall the old drivers in "Add or Remove" programs.

Radar

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ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

I think I'm just going to ask the local pc shop to see what they say.Anyone else in these forums got any sugestions.Thanks agian for your help radarman.

tomthetank · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

ATI

I know very little about ATI vid cards.but I do know that OMEGA do tweaked drivers for ATI
Select ATI then your windows version from the top and it should present you with some "modified" drivers

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

they are certainly worth a try

Note they also do NVidia drivers which I use Thumbs Up!

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ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

Did not work TTT but thanks for the help anyway.I took the computer to the pc store and got it working properly.It took the man 4 days to fix it Exclamation

!!!!!! at least its working now Smile

RadarMan · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

I'm glad it's working now and you can get back to flying.
Did he tell you what he did to fix it.

Radar

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Guest · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

Turns out he did not fix it Crying or Very sad

.The computer is still crashing after about 1/2 an hour Sad

and there is nothing I can do about it.I've wasted a load of money on this card Mad

and it still wont work I dont think the card is foulty the man in the pc shop would have noticed it.Its not the memery I have 512mb of it and thats enuogh.I emialed the shop I got the card from and thay dont have any more advise.I have been searching other forums and they have the some problem they also say that its just the flight sim and theres nothing I can do about it Crying or Very sad

ranald · Captain Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 666

Last post was by me forgot to login Embarassed

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

I still don't know which drivers you are using but it may not be the drivers after a half an hour.
It may be overheating, that usually causes crashes after a period of time.
Take the side of your case and run the sim for a long time.
If it doesn't crash then you can add a $10 fan in the rear and that will cure the problem.
I hope you clean the inside of your computer occasionally, especially the CPU fan. The fans pick up quite a bit of dust.
Try that, and let us know how you do.

Radar

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