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Periodic freezing in games: 9800 pro overheating?
I've got the following system specs
I've got an NF7-s v2.0 (heatsink attached to southbridge), 98SE, 1 gig PC3200, Barton (running overclocked at 11.5 * 202 = 2323), WD 250GB drive + 20GB Seagate running on an Promise TX100 EIDE controller, logitech optical wheel mouse on USB, Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro (running at stock speeds). Periodically, games will freeze up for a second after running the games for some time. The Far Cry demo is the worst offender here. This is the only problem I experience w/this rig. I'm thinking the 9800 Pro might be overheating because even though I removed the dried-out, crusty stock heatsink "paste" and replaced it w/Arctic Silver III (and a better, ball-bearing Pentium fan) the heatsink is at best loosely attached w/the stock mounting hardware (I can easily twist and turn the heatsink). Could I epoxy the heatsink directly to the GPU core w/Arctic Silver adhesive? I'm thinking this way I would get better contact betwixt the heatsink and GPU core. I only ask because the directions for Arctic Silver adhesive suggest NOT to use it to attach heatsinks to CPU cores. -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) |
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Kind of doesn't make sense. Either the game freezes up,
or it doesn't. A 1 sec "freeze up" sounds more like a drive access problem. I notice you have a Western Digital drive. My years of experience has convinced me to never get another WD drive for any reason at all. I do believe I have seen WD drives just quit and have to do another head seek to the zero track to get going again. Another problem could be that your drive is badly fragmented, esp if the C-drive is the 20 gig. I don't really understand why you left that drive in your machine at all when you have a 250 gig .. unless your OS is there. By now, a 20 gig is getting a little worn out, and it could be losing its track position .... especially if it is fragmented. johns |
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...., 98SE, 1 gig PC3200,
I seem to remember reading of a problem with running Win98 and more than 512 MB RAM. Try searching Google groups to find fix. I have read of background programs like firewall causing problem you describe. -Kent |
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Fastwrites are on, but i thought they were supposed to be on for 9800
vid-cards? If the CPU were overheating wouldn't the system just completely hard lock? I've run the C&C Generals: Zero Hour for hours on end (at max details and 1600x1200 resolution) and the system didn't crash (and yes it's pegged at 100% CPU utilization according to MBM). Even stranger is the fact that the periodic freezes are really bad when I first start the Far Cry demo then steadily decrease to zero as I play the game longer and longer until they nearly completely disappear. I'm beginning to think 98SE and the Catalyst 4.3 drivers I'm using are the problem and there's no fix except going to XP. Fastwrites are switched off are they ? What happens to Far Cry if you run the CPU at 11x200 ? Virus checker in the background ? Memory Leaking ? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) |
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Interesting. I have a somewhat similar problem in Far Cry running on an
A7N8X deluxe with a 9800 pro and 1 gig of ram on Windows XP. The game will freeze for about a minute at some point, usually only once in the hour that I play, and then continue. I'm using the latest ATI drivers. I thought it might be heat, but since this is a game on the cutting edge of 3D technology I decided to turn off fast writes in my mobo bios. It seems that that is alway recommend for ATI Radeon video cards for some reason but I never bothered to turn it off since I had no problems. I really don't know if that will work or not because I haven't tested the change enough. But so far, so good. JK "Wblane" wrote in message ... Fastwrites are on, but i thought they were supposed to be on for 9800 vid-cards? If the CPU were overheating wouldn't the system just completely hard lock? I've run the C&C Generals: Zero Hour for hours on end (at max details and 1600x1200 resolution) and the system didn't crash (and yes it's pegged at 100% CPU utilization according to MBM). Even stranger is the fact that the periodic freezes are really bad when I first start the Far Cry demo then steadily decrease to zero as I play the game longer and longer until they nearly completely disappear. I'm beginning to think 98SE and the Catalyst 4.3 drivers I'm using are the problem and there's no fix except going to XP. Fastwrites are switched off are they ? What happens to Far Cry if you run the CPU at 11x200 ? Virus checker in the background ? Memory Leaking ? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) |
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On 30 May 2004 21:02:21 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote:
Fastwrites are on, but i thought they were supposed to be on for 9800 vid-cards? If the CPU were overheating wouldn't the system just completely hard lock? I've run the C&C Generals: Zero Hour for hours on end (at max details and 1600x1200 resolution) and the system didn't crash (and yes it's pegged at 100% CPU utilization according to MBM). Even stranger is the fact that the periodic freezes are really bad when I first start the Far Cry demo then steadily decrease to zero as I play the game longer and longer until they nearly completely disappear. I'm beginning to think 98SE and the Catalyst 4.3 drivers I'm using are the problem and there's no fix except going to XP. Fastwrites are switched off are they ? What happens to Far Cry if you run the CPU at 11x200 ? Virus checker in the background ? Memory Leaking ? -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) Well the famous ' memory leak ' was fixed in the SE edition and the later ME but at the end of the day these now very old O/S's will never stack up against WinXP. Ati amongst others are withdrawing support for both '98 & ME. Whilst some MOBO's can run with ' fastwrites ' others can not and suffer instabilities, regardless of this fact the Radeon range do support FastWrites and there is no speed gain from having them switched on, so turn them off. From here then (1) try the Omega v4.5 Catalyst drivers, and read his Radeon FAQ before installing his driver set[s] ; and, Get upto speed (2) and with a clean install of a slipstreamed WinXP prepare to be astonished at the improvement in you gaming, again use the Omega's. BoroLad http://omegacorner.com/ |
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