Radeon 9800pro problem!

Can somebody help me abouut my card. When I play Most Wanted & Carbon it simply kick me of the game. Without any message. Before 9800pro I had a nvidia fx5200 and played Most Wanted on lower resolution & details with no problems. But when I get radeon card I have problems with playing. Can this be a problem about temperature of 9800pro??? It has a stock cooler. Or something else???
Thanks

What??? 8O
No one will help me. OK! Thean I must try to find help on other forums. Thanks guys!

I don't think that's a monitor problem.
Everything was fine with my gf5200 on lower resoution & details.
Carbon details: 1024X768 & medium details.
Monitor is 15", frequency 60 hz.

I haven't overclocked my card. Removed all display drivers and installed them again, but with no result. It's powercolor radeon 9800, 128mb,128bit

BUY A NEW VIDEO CARD AND MONITOR. 9800 128-bit = CRAP

Now be a good little boy and go play your solitaire.

could be psu problem 9800pro uses more power than fx5200. try playing another graphically challenging game see what happens.

Newegg is hardly a site to use as proof. And I did say I thought.

Like someone else said, make sure you remove ALL old nVida drivers from the system and ALL old Ati drivers (Google it). Then reinstall the drivers. Also make sure the chipset drivers are ok. Final thing you can do is check that your card does run at reference speed.

Other probable causes have also been mentioned in this thread.

I have a couple questions that will give us a better idea of what is going on.

1. Does it kick you from the game immediately, or does it play for a while before crashing?

2. Have you tried reinstalling that game? The game's user files are stored in My Documents, so you can be sure to back them up before reinstalling.

Since the game doesn't crash immediately, that rules out a lot of possible system incompatibilities. My next question is, do you have the lastest patch version?

I had a similar problem with Most Wanted where my game would crash unexpectedly and somewhat often in the middle of races. It turned out that dust had built up in my video card heatsink (despite the case filters) and it was overheating just enough to glitch, but not enough to trigger VPU recover. Even without the heat issue though, I noticed that the game would to crash sometimes at the end of races when it started loading the race results screen. I started playing NFS: Carbon though and never tried to solve the problem.

For now I need to go get some sleep, but I will keep thinking about this and post back if I think of anything. Hopefully we can solve your problem.

If it plays for awhile then crashes, I suspect heat. Clean the card, and make sure it has enough power. (check your PSU, and make sure the cord is plugged in.)

Is the card new, or new to you? Its possible that you have a bad card.

The VF700 is a plenty powerful cooler for your video card, assuming that it is seated properly with good heatsink compound. But, as far as I know, that heatsink is flat on the bottom. If the guy who installed the cooler never removed the VPU shim, then it will not make proper contact and will overheat. This is something you need to inspect your card and find out if it was done properly.

To illustrate what I am saying:


As you can see, there is a metal shim around the outside perimeter of the chip. This shim is taller than the core and will prevent proper contact with a flat heatsink such as the VF700. I found this out first hand when I installed a Vantec Iceberq on my 9800Pro back in the day. Note that removal of this shim voids any warranty you may have (although it doesn't sound like you have a warranty anyway).

If the shim is still installed on your card, then it a likely source of your troubles. But as 4745454b says, it is also possible that you got a faulty card.

Card work on other games whith smaller performance. like championship manager.