ATI 9250 and BF2 causing VPU recovery

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"V "fnugen"" <fnugen@hotmail.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> My daughter continues to get a VPU recovery screen right after the womans
> voice says "welcome to duty" It will sit for about a minute then the
> window pops up saying it recovered from a video failure. I tried to turn
> on, then off Fast write (CMOS), upped the agp aperture to 256. It's a 128m
> 9250 AGP card. It doesn't show as being supported, but neither does the
> 9000pro on their other PC and it works fine there. After every attempt it
> gets the same lockup and eventual crash. Anybody find a way around this,
> or run into this as well?? Any advice would be helpful, but please don't
> just suggest a new card.

I don't know if this will help, but I suffered from similar problems, I
think.
I have a X800XT PE, and my game crashed frequently or restarted my computer.
(VPU recovery off = Reboot and VPU recovery on = CTD, it seems.)
Sometimes a few minutes into the game, and occationally in the menus. Tried
various drivers, fixes and even installed XP SP2. (:-/) Nothing helped.

BUT!
When I, (a week ago) upped from 1 gig of RAM to 1,5, everything were fine.
Iv'e had only 1 CTD since.
So I suggest that you buy or borrow some more RAM, and try it in your
daughters computer, to see if it helps.

Gubb

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V "fnugen" wrote:
> My daughter continues to get a VPU recovery screen right after the
> womans voice says "welcome to duty" It will sit for about a minute then
> the window pops up saying it recovered from a video failure. I tried to
> turn on, then off Fast write (CMOS), upped the agp aperture to 256. It's
> a 128m 9250 AGP card. It doesn't show as being supported, but neither
> does the 9000pro on their other PC and it works fine there. After every
> attempt it gets the same lockup and eventual crash. Anybody find a way
> around this, or run into this as well?? Any advice would be helpful, but
> please don't just suggest a new card.

Okay, setting the AGP speed to 4x gets her into the game, but when she
fires a gun it lags for a couple seconds. For instance with the machine
you can hear it fire but she is frozen while it fires and inside a tank,
she fires and it hangs for about 3 secs until your hear the explosion
then she pops outta lock up. I have read there are problems with the
9350 and BF2, but so far found no answer for the lag. It has nothing to
do with video settings and/or audio. Video is medium/low and audio is
bare minimum including hardware driven. No EAX or anything, VOIP is
disabled as well........I am at a loss. last ditch I suppose.

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I suggest you get a video card that is supported. Then, if your still
having issues let us know. Trying to get unsupported hardware working
is pretty pointless.