Hi. I just got a Sapphire HD4830 card, and it seems to be giving me a couple issues.
1) Whenever I'm playing a game in fullscreen mode and alt tab, change resolution, or exit the game I freeze for 10 seconds to a minute. Sometimes it doesn't come out of it and I have to do a hard reset. Sometimes my video wigs out, and gives me a driver error saying that it is stuck in a loop or something and I need to reboot, though that's only happened a couple times. I would think this is a driver issue, but I haven't been able to find anyone else having similar problems. This started on a fresh install of XP Pro, and I've tried a few different catalyst drivers (completely removing the previous ones) from 8.9 to 8.12 and they all do the same thing. If I just stay in game I can play fine for hours, everything looks and runs great. I've tried Fallout 3, WoW, L4D, Mass Effect and they all do the same thing. This also happens when I'm playing in fullscreen and change any ingame video settings, though it usually doesn't crash afterwards, it just takes a long time.
2) If I play WoW in windowed mode I can change settings and resolution, do whatever I want in the background etc. fine, but it seems to be capping me at 20 fps for some reason. I have no idea what's causing that either.
So I've tried different drivers, it's not overheating (stays below 55c under load usually), and my PSU should be fine, I only have 1 hard drive and a dvd burner. I've fiddled with whatever settings I can think of and that's about the extent of my diagnostic abilities. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else I can do, or something else that could be causing it?
The rest of my system:
ASUS M3A78 AMD 770 ATX Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Antec Earthwatts 430W PSU
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC6400
Seagate Barracuda 250gb SATA HD
1) Whenever I'm playing a game in fullscreen mode and alt tab, change resolution, or exit the game I freeze for 10 seconds to a minute. Sometimes it doesn't come out of it and I have to do a hard reset. Sometimes my video wigs out, and gives me a driver error saying that it is stuck in a loop or something and I need to reboot, though that's only happened a couple times. I would think this is a driver issue, but I haven't been able to find anyone else having similar problems. This started on a fresh install of XP Pro, and I've tried a few different catalyst drivers (completely removing the previous ones) from 8.9 to 8.12 and they all do the same thing. If I just stay in game I can play fine for hours, everything looks and runs great. I've tried Fallout 3, WoW, L4D, Mass Effect and they all do the same thing. This also happens when I'm playing in fullscreen and change any ingame video settings, though it usually doesn't crash afterwards, it just takes a long time.
2) If I play WoW in windowed mode I can change settings and resolution, do whatever I want in the background etc. fine, but it seems to be capping me at 20 fps for some reason. I have no idea what's causing that either.
So I've tried different drivers, it's not overheating (stays below 55c under load usually), and my PSU should be fine, I only have 1 hard drive and a dvd burner. I've fiddled with whatever settings I can think of and that's about the extent of my diagnostic abilities. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else I can do, or something else that could be causing it?
The rest of my system:
ASUS M3A78 AMD 770 ATX Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+
Antec Earthwatts 430W PSU
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC6400
Seagate Barracuda 250gb SATA HD
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