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"Hardware Lockdown" when games played on 9600 XT
When I play Unreal 2k3, Halo, Max Payne 2, about 3 minutes into the
game the frame freezes, then gets all fuzzy and exits to windows. In windows the ATI utility tells me that there was a hardware lockdown because of bad communications with the card due to the driver. I was origanally using version 3.8 catalyst drivers, and then I uninstalled those and installed 3.10 but the problem still persists, Help!!!!!!!!!! -Thanks |
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New one for me sounds like a dud card,anyone ? Make sure the card is pushed in all the way On 17 Jan 2004 18:43:34 -0800, (matthew) wrote: When I play Unreal 2k3, Halo, Max Payne 2, about 3 minutes into the game the frame freezes, then gets all fuzzy and exits to windows. In windows the ATI utility tells me that there was a hardware lockdown because of bad communications with the card due to the driver. I was origanally using version 3.8 catalyst drivers, and then I uninstalled those and installed 3.10 but the problem still persists, Help!!!!!!!!!! -Thanks |
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But why would the games play fine right when they start up if the cards a dud?
We Live For The One We Die For The One wrote in message . .. New one for me sounds like a dud card,anyone ? Make sure the card is pushed in all the way On 17 Jan 2004 18:43:34 -0800, (matthew) wrote: When I play Unreal 2k3, Halo, Max Payne 2, about 3 minutes into the game the frame freezes, then gets all fuzzy and exits to windows. In windows the ATI utility tells me that there was a hardware lockdown because of bad communications with the card due to the driver. I was origanally using version 3.8 catalyst drivers, and then I uninstalled those and installed 3.10 but the problem still persists, Help!!!!!!!!!! -Thanks |
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I have the same problem with my 9600 pro extreme. Runs ok in 4x AGP, but 8X
runs for a minute or so then crashes. 3D Mark 2001 is a good test. Crashes during the first test in 8x, but runs right through in 4x. Could be a voltage problem, not sure. I hope it's just a driver issue, as there may be hope for me too. Good luck. Psyke "Lithurge" wrote in message ... (matthew) wrote in om: But why would the games play fine right when they start up if the cards a dud? It may be that it needs to be pushed a bit first before it causes problems (heat problems?). However I found initially with my 9700Pro that I could play games for a few minutes then they'd lock. Initial cure was to reduce the agp speed to 4x rather than 8x. Once ATI had released another couple of Cat driver versions I found I could up it to 8x with no problems. One day I may reinstall the 3.2's to see if they really were the problem. |
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