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Dexxel Farcry
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The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.12 07:32:00 -
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After 10 seconds to 3 min of being out in space I crash. Hard. The screen goes black. I can still hear everything happening. Then I hear eve disconnect and go back to the splash screen. I can tell because of the music. The compuer will not restart on it's own. I have to physically turn it off, and turn it back on again. I can't get back to windows at all. Nothing works when this happens. Not even ctl alt del.
I'm am alomst 100% sure this is video card related.
I use a x1600 ATI readeon 512mb. It's not over clocked, in fact nothing is overclocked on my system. I've treid to screw with Direct x settings and nothing, I've put hardware acceleration at every level, even none, nothing. Write combining is not checked. I've turned off hardware accel for sound, I've disabled sound, I flashed the Bios I've screwed with virtually every setting imagininable. The card is in a PCIE slot. But I set the AGP apeture to 128 anyway just to see hwat would happen. The refresh rates on the moniter and card match.
I've been working on this for days. I sent a petition to CCP. They responded very quickly and professionally. But I can't use the log veiwer, becuase when the crash happens the enitre computer freezes, and I can not do anything but turn it off. So there is no way to save or send the log file.
I'm hoping someone out there has an Idea, becuase I am at a loss.
I run an AMD Athalon 64 3200
1.5 gigs of ram
windows xp SP2
ATI 512 mb x1600
I played Eve a few months back, and it ran beautifully. My computer since then took a serious dump. And I was forced to format and start over. I'm thinking it may be the driver for the vid card. Any other ideas? Or does anyone else use an x1600 and know of a driver that works?
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Ladyah Liandri
A GmbH
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Posted - 2007.09.12 07:46:00 -
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Have you run a memtest86 already?
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erzykiel
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Posted - 2007.09.12 09:09:00 -
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Last I heard is that the ATI 16xx series have a serious driver issue(this being since approx 4-5 weeks), I keep hearing complaints about games crashing, random artifacts in desktop environments and even blue screens while doing absolutely nothing.
Maybe it's better to not take the latest driver release but roll back to an earlier version:)
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Talidair
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Posted - 2007.09.13 05:06:00 -
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I have run memtest, it's fine. There's gotta be someone that had a similar issue related to the video card. I hope. Any other ideas?
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Dexxel Farcry
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.13 05:07:00 -
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 Originally by: Talidair
I have run memtest, it's fine. There's gotta be someone that had a similar issue related to the video card. I hope. Any other ideas?
oops sorry that was me, selected the wrong charcter
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erzykiel
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Posted - 2007.09.13 15:19:00 -
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http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=594179
^^^^^
That's a thread which holds a possible solution, also a 2nd link inside the above thread to ppl with a similar problem (als ATI card)
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Dexxel Farcry
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.14 06:20:00 -
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Edited by: Dexxel Farcry on 14/09/2007 06:20:19
Treid the suggesttions in that thread, but it's not the same error. And it didn't work. I got one of those "system just recovered from a serious error". Messages again. It said the Operating system stopped communicating with the Video card. Any other Ideas? Or is my card just screwed. And if my card is screwed, what Card do you guys recommend that won't break the bank too much. Try to keep it under $300. But Eve seems tempramental with some video cards.
This whole thing is driving me crazy. I remember having an issue like this once a long time ago. I can't for the life of me recall what it was I did to fix it.
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SublightNova
Amarr
Lightwave technologies
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Posted - 2007.09.14 10:56:00 -
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Edited by: SublightNova on 14/09/2007 10:57:06
You said you ran memtest.. .For how long?
If you don't let it run for at least 5 or 6 hours, the result means nothing.
Also, run consecutive 3dmark runs to further stress test your system and mainly your videocard.
If 5 hours of memtest and a couple of hours of 3dmark don't turn up anything you could pretty safely assume your hardware is fine.
Any messages in your eventlog that could give you a hint?
Also make sure you monitor your temps constantly to see if they are spiking.
You say you disabled sound. Do you mean you disabled it ingame or did you physically remove the soundcard. Because that is what it takes to really disable sound and then uninstall drivers...
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Dexxel Farcry
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The Scope
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Posted - 2007.09.15 06:17:00 -
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Ok, I've run memtest over night, it's fine. No issues. I think I have it narrowed down to something though. I have an onboard memory card. ATI xpress 200, I think it is conflicting with my new card somehow even though all it's drivers are uninstalled and it is disabled. I can't think of anything else. I pulled the x1600 and the game is running fine within the limits of insanely crappy onboard shared memory. Has anyone had issues with onboard cards conflicting with others before?
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Talidair
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Posted - 2007.09.17 00:30:00 -
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Update :
I finally gave up. So in summary this is what I have done. I took the whole comp in to my local nerd herd and had the alpha male check it out for me. After a few hours, he determined that the video card for whatever reason was having massive tempeture spikes. Upon closer examination it turns out that the card somehow became defective.
Solution? I bought an Nvida 8600 256mb ddr3. The game looks better than it did before all this crap started. I'm running max settings on everything now, looks great, it's not choppy, and my blood pressure is down. Thanks for the effort in helping me guys!
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