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minotaur@agora.rdrop.com (Roger Bonzer) crashed Echelon writing
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6adnZXqJL5SYVDfRVn-tA@scnresearch.com:
> Seems to be a Radeon thing,
> apparently Sony and ATI might be working on it.
Rather than might, why dont you send off your problems to ATi driver
feedback, then they might be able to fix the problem.
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minotaur@agora.rdrop.com (Roger Bonzer) wrote in
news6adnZXqJL5SYVDfRVn-tA@scnresearch.com:
> In article <JF7ze.170718$3V6.11495@fe04.news.easynews.com>,
> Nick <nsub1@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>>Anyone else having problems with an ATI card and EQ2.
>>
>>Have a Radeon 700pro 256mb. Been having VPU error messages and
>>crashing issues for the last two weeks. Second computer with a low end
>>FX card runs EQ2 fine.
>
> Yeah. It's happened to me as well. On June 25, 2 Saturdays ago, EQ2
> was fine. On the 26th, I couldn't play for more than 2 minutes without
> it locking up, requiring a power-off to fix. Seems to be a Radeon
> thing, apparently Sony and ATI might be working on it. There's a few
> posts about it in the tech support forums on the EQ2 web site. For me,
> I upgraded from the 5.1 drivers to the 5.2 drivers, and now I can play
> for 2 to 90 minutes without it locking up. Yippie.
>
> Anyway, you're not alone. Some of the forum posters have suggestions
> that may work for you. Good luck.
>
Odd, I've been playing EQ2 all along and encounter no such problems,
running a 9800 Pro, with catalyst 5.2 I think it is. Not sure on the
drivers themselves off hand, have not upgraded them in ages.
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Graeme Faelban wrote:
> minotaur@agora.rdrop.com (Roger Bonzer) wrote in
> news6adnZXqJL5SYVDfRVn-tA@scnresearch.com:
>
> > In article <JF7ze.170718$3V6.11495@fe04.news.easynews.com>,
> > Nick <nsub1@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>Anyone else having problems with an ATI card and EQ2.
> >>
> >>Have a Radeon 700pro 256mb. Been having VPU error messages and
> >>crashing issues for the last two weeks. Second computer with a low end
> >>FX card runs EQ2 fine.
> >
> > Yeah. It's happened to me as well. On June 25, 2 Saturdays ago, EQ2
> > was fine. On the 26th, I couldn't play for more than 2 minutes without
> > it locking up, requiring a power-off to fix. Seems to be a Radeon
> > thing, apparently Sony and ATI might be working on it. There's a few
> > posts about it in the tech support forums on the EQ2 web site. For me,
> > I upgraded from the 5.1 drivers to the 5.2 drivers, and now I can play
> > for 2 to 90 minutes without it locking up. Yippie.
> >
> > Anyway, you're not alone. Some of the forum posters have suggestions
> > that may work for you. Good luck.
> >
>
> Odd, I've been playing EQ2 all along and encounter no such problems,
> running a 9800 Pro, with catalyst 5.2 I think it is. Not sure on the
> drivers themselves off hand, have not upgraded them in ages.
Yeah, I haven't had any problems at all with my cards (9800Pro then
X800) either. The friends I gave my old card to hasn't had any
problems either. I wonder if it is a conflict between some system
configurations and the driver? It surprised me to hear people were
having problems with them.
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In article <Xns968D7EDCA5E5Bbjoegdk@212.242.40.170>,
Bjarke Andersen <bjoeg@*spammer*bjoeg.dk> wrote:
>minotaur@agora.rdrop.com (Roger Bonzer) crashed Echelon writing
>news6adnZXqJL5SYVDfRVn-tA@scnresearch.com:
>
>> Seems to be a Radeon thing,
>> apparently Sony and ATI might be working on it.
>
>Rather than might, why dont you send off your problems to ATi driver
>feedback, then they might be able to fix the problem.
ATI will fix my annoying coworkers? Righteous!
Truthfully, though, I'm just not that good at tracking down hardware or
system software problems. Right now all I know for sure is that playing
eq2 locks my box up within 90 minutes. I've done virus scans, upgraded
video drivers, memory checks, cpu fan tests, etc. Nothing so far has made
the problem go away. Upgrading the video driver changed the MTBF from 2
minutes to ~20 minutes, so I'm leaning towards it being video related, but
of course that doesn't eliminate the driver, the video card, or eq2 itself
from the playing field. I was hoping this weekend to swap video cards with
my brother (we have the same type of card) to see if that will make a
difference. I'd definitely like to go to tech support with something more
to go on than "my game crashed -- fix it!"
As you seem to be interested in helping with the problem, feel free to
offer suggestions on how I can eliminate suspects or finger the guilty.
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