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| Thread ID: 53373 | 2005-01-15 21:38:00 | DirectX 9 problem (i think) | Tonnes (6881) | Press F1 |
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| 314559 | 2005-01-15 21:38:00 | Hi there, I seem to be having a problem with DirectX 9(maybe). when ever i load some games the computer simply restarts or the monitor goes into sleep mode. The funny thing is that it only does this in more advanced games (i.e Half Life 2, Medal Of honour:Pacific Assault, Star Wars Battlefront, Need for speed: Underground 2, etc) it does not however crash in older games which use DirectX 8.1 (i.e GTA: Vice city, Counter Strike) which leads me to believe it has something to do with DirectX 9. My Video Card Is a GeCube Radeon 9800Pro 128MB I also used to get this on my old video card (A Chaintech GeForce FX5700 128MB) which is why i bought the Radeon card and for a while it seemed my problem had been solved, but now it has raised its ugly head from the pits of hell to haunt me once more. Another thought that i have on this problem is that it might be my Motherboard (an Asus A7V600) maybe DirectX 9 is conflicting with the MotherBoards drivers. Thanks in advance for any assistence rendered forthwith P.S here are my full Computer Stats AMD Athlon XP2200+ 1.8ghz 512MB Kingmax DDR400 RAM (Certified for use with my motherboard) Asus A7V600 GeCube ATI Radeon 9800Pro 128MB ColoursIT 400 watt PSU |
Tonnes (6881) | ||
| 314560 | 2005-01-15 22:06:00 | Do have DirectX 9.0c installed? I'm sure this would have been installed with HL2 but you can check by using Run> DXDIAG | HadO (796) | ||
| 314561 | 2005-01-15 23:13:00 | Indeed I do DirectX 9.0C installed. Furthermore i have attempted to reinstall it and the latest catalyst drivers to no avail! | Tonnes (6881) | ||
| 314562 | 2005-01-15 23:18:00 | Tried lowering the operating screen resolution/refresh? | ninja (1671) | ||
| 314563 | 2005-01-15 23:24:00 | Hi there have you tried turning fast write off and turning AGP speed down to 4x this worked for me HTH |
Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 314564 | 2005-01-15 23:50:00 | This has happened to Tonnes before, and I came to the conclusion last time that it was, although this is absurdly unfounded, simply a problem with the graphics card and the motherboard, as a combination. Although this never explained the fact that they worked together earlier, it also explained that neither the motherboard nor the graphics card was faulty (tested in other systems, sent back for RMA.) Reinstalling windows did not help last time, and as I have not even seen the problem this time I'm not sure if it will do anything this time round. That being said, last time it even crashed before Windows loaded, randomly, and during any game. It also worked some of the time. Although the symptoms are the same I am reluctant to relate this to a previous issue, considering that the card ran for about 6 months perfectly (or was it 3 months). For this reason I suggest that it's a software setting, something changed recently. Then again, Tonnes told me that a system restore fixed absolutely nothing. Presuming he set it back a good week, I'd say that something very very stupid is going on. Does anyone think it's possible for a motherboard to stop liking a graphics card after a while? Maybe it's a cooling issue. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 314565 | 2005-01-16 00:05:00 | This problem only seems to affect Radeons its an issue that affected my pc too but Tonnes should try turning off fast writes and turning AGP speed down to 4x, I would be keen to know how he gets on after that. | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | ||
| 314566 | 2005-01-16 00:49:00 | Ummm i do not believe its just a problem with Radeon cards as something similar happened to my Nvidia Card. But then again Im an ATI fanboy :P. However i will try lowering the AGP speed, etc. Thanks for your assistance. I'll post back after I've tried this. |
Tonnes (6881) | ||
| 314567 | 2005-01-17 22:16:00 | Hi there I've got a bit of an update here. I tried lowering the AGP speed to 4Xand turning of AGP write as was suggested but this did not solve the problem. I have since come to the conclusion that this problem is directly associated with the installation of medal of honour pacific assault. After i run a system restore to a date before i installed said game, the computer works perfectly, whereas after i install it the problem starts up again. Also even more serious issues are arising, sometimes when i enter windows, it simply crashes, the menus go all funny or i simply get a blue screen of death. The irritating thing is, that on the EA games support site you can only search for issues and nowhere on that site have i found an E-mail address, so therefore i cannot inform EA of this very nasty problem. I will also try Reformatting and reinstalling XP within the next few days. |
Tonnes (6881) | ||
| 314568 | 2005-01-17 23:44:00 | before you do that disable directx direct sound completely while this may sound unrelated it fixed mine and many other peoples problems with a rct3 crashing the graphics card | Brad H (738) | ||
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