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Can anyone help me solve this?

I recently traded my Nvidia FX 5500 128MB for an ATI Radeon 9550 256MB graphics card. I only play one game, F1 Challenge 99-02. Runs pretty well on the 9550. What happens though is when I'm in middle of the game the screen just blacks out. Sometimes the screen hangs too yet you could still see a picture. The game freezes and there's this hissing and crackling sound I could hear from my speakers. This only happened when I replaced my GPU. So is it the graphics card? Hit me about several times already. I think I have enough RAM. I have 2x512MB DDR 533 RAM. My CPU is a Celeron 336.

Please help. Thanks.

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Are u serious abt the cards??
The 9550 is WORSE then the FX 5500. The 256Mb increase means NOTHING!

I say, get it back, or get a better card. And a new CPU while ur at it, Celeron is not for gaming.

For now.. did u OC ur card?

Reply to Track

Use DriverCleaner to totally clean all of the nVidia drivers. Then install latest ATI drivers. This should help this problem.

Reply to prozac26

I was planning on overclocking the 9550 but decided not to when I started encountering problems. Actually the 9550 scores better in 3dMark than the FX 5500. But hey, if the card's faulty, I'm getting back my 5500.

I'm planning on getting a core 2 duo processor and a capable mobo sometime in the future. The Celeron really sucks. I feel it too.

Thanks.

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The 9550 is WORSE then the FX 5500.

No it's not. A radeon 9550 is better than an FX5500. Only way the 5500 might win is if it's a 128-bit vs. a 64-bit 9550se.

http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-fcs20-800.shtml
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-trs-1024.shtml
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/over2k4-d3s-1024.shtml

See, 9550 128-bit even beats the 128-bit FX5500 in Doom 3.

Reply to pauldh

I never thought a 9550 would be better than anything, but there's the proof...

Reply to prozac26

Damn Pauldh. You pulled dat out o ur arse!

Reply to Anoobis

lol. Paul beat me to it. Yep, the 9550 is certainly better; it should overclock really well, too.

Your celeron is holding you back a little, but it shouldn't be causing crashing.

Something might be overheating, or maybe your power supply is being pushed too far.

Do you have your old card? You could reinstall it and see if it crashes...

Reply to Cleeve

Nah Cleeve, my old card has never crashed. The fan even stopped spinning for a a couple of weeks and I didn't even notice. Still kept on going. Performance never went down, maybe a bit though, but it wasn't noticeable even on benchmarks.

What's a good midrange card? I see lots of FX 6600s. There's ultra, SE, 128MB, 256MB, etc. Sometimes the 256s are even cheaper than the 128s. How do I choose which is best?

By the way, could it be that the heatsink on the 9550 might have been unseated or something? It moves around quite a bit.

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