Corrupted!

[E.K.x]

graphics card, buy a NVIDIA 8450GX

[Koister]

How hot is your GPU running tho..

Sometimes card manufacturers overclock their cards more then the weak fans they put on them can handle. So when people who live in warm climates are using them, they slowly degrade over time. Or it's just getting to hot and causing artifacts and reboots.


Have you tried "DOWNclocking" your card?

Use ATI Tool and try downclocking your card about 15mhz on the memory and core clock.

Then play and see if you have anymore issues.

[Silver Ice]

Originally Posted by Mega

I had a real incentive to try and get the rebooting stopped this weekend:

Your order for Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3850 / 512MB DDR3 / AGP 8X / Graphics Card has been posted.

Arrives Monday!

lol

Let us know how the swaps go and whether it fixes the problem

[VeNgeNcE]

Originally Posted by Mega

Before anyone says how crap AGP cards are:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...gp,1939-4.html

Never said AGP were crap.. matter of fact i still have one system here at home that uses one .. just opted to go PCI-E with my upgrades since i was looking at a whole package anyway.

But just as a note on the THG article .. did you see that the PCI-E card was UNDERclocked? that does make a fair bit of difference. I consider anything under 40 FPS to be unplayable for myself but then again that is just me :p Oh and one more thing ... look at the crysis benchmarks for the new card. not sure how you feel abou tit.. you'll be able to see what is going on but at only ~20-25 FPS it may be a too choppy to really enjoy VU10

Anyway .. like Silver Ice said .. would like to know how and if the new card fixes the issue of the reboots.

[Mega]

Originally Posted by VeNgeNcE

Never said AGP were crap.. matter of fact i still have one system here at home that uses one .. just opted to go PCI-E with my upgrades since i was looking at a whole package anyway.

But just as a note on the THG article .. did you see that the PCI-E card was UNDERclocked? that does make a fair bit of difference. I consider anything under 40 FPS to be unplayable for myself but then again that is just me :p Oh and one more thing ... look at the crysis benchmarks for the new card. not sure how you feel abou tit.. you'll be able to see what is going on but at only ~20-25 FPS it may be a too choppy to really enjoy VU10

Anyway .. like Silver Ice said .. would like to know how and if the new card fixes the issue of the reboots.

No, I know you didn't VeNgeNce, its just I had that exact reaction from 2 people I told in game about my new purchase you see, so didn't want anyone else to poop in my cornflakes before it has even arrived.

Yeah I had noticed the PCI-E was underclocked, the thing is, I will be doing a comparison test before and after for other AGP motherboard owners like myself. It may make an expensive upgrade for Cryengine 2 to a more modest one, if you can get away with just a Graphic Card change instead of Mobo,Ram,CPU & Graphic Card.

Koister - the 9800pro is at stock, I never overclock anything so hopefully itll soon be fixed.

Latest update: I have swapped the 400w Zalman PSU out for my spare 431 Enermax PSU.

Graphic card is coming out in 24 hours anyway, and the graphic corruption shown only happens occasionally.

fingers crossed!

[Mega]

Incidentally, for those who know about voltages (I'm not too clued up on them TBH)

Old PSU / New PSU


Core 0 1.62 / 1.60
Core 1 2.72 / 2.72
+3.3 3.33 /3.38
+5.0 5.03 / 5.08
+12.0 11.80 /12.16
-12.0 12.03 /-12.19
-5.00 4.99 / -5.39

From looking at the figures, the new PSU appears to provide a stronger output?

I've left it running Prime 95...

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm

Link provided for anyone else who wants to check their PC is working 100%.
It's really easy, just install then click on Options/ Torture test and you are away.

[the-unknown]

The screenshot you have shows something similar to what my dieing 7900 GT (graphics card) used to show previously.

I used to see white dots in my bios screen / windows desktop as well.

As of a couple of weeks ago, am happily using a Power Color 4870 (ATI) card now.

Nice speed boost in all my games.

[Wody]

Since it is partial corruption, and it has restarts, I would say it is not your graphicscard, but the harddisk that is not doing too well, so I'd check that with the program from the manufacturer

[ruskea]

its always the graphic card.. god damn i hate those bastards....

[Sneaky B'stard]

Sounds like faulty ram on the graphics card to me..
It could aslo be dirty contacts on an agp card - give them a clean with a pencil eraser - the soft white kind of eraser......