wtf is wrong

radium_1

Hey guys, i have a radeon 9600 pro 128 mb, and it has been great to me for a good year and a half now. i recently purchased the new shooter Chronicles of Riddick, and every time i boot it up, i can play only for random amounts of time before the entire game freezes. Is this some weird monitor problem? A problem with my drivers? If so, i dont know how, as i have tried the 4.12's and the new omegas. I have no idea what is wrong, and if anybody has this problem, pleease tell me what you did to fix it.

Oh, and VU Games's Technical Support SUCKS.

Athlon 64 3000+
Via K8M800 Mobo in Shuttle SK83G
1 GB Corsair XMS 2-2-2-5
160 GB seagate 7200 rpm
19 inch MAG Innovision LCD Display


PLEASE help me! I'm good w/ computers, but idk what is wrong here!

nauticus

Do you have any overclocked components? This sounds like 1) A driver problem, or 2) A heat related problem.

My money is on a driver problem, though. If it was heat related, most likely your computer would just radomly restart during gameplay.

Try downloading an earlier driver for your card

Also, to see if it is heat related, use MBM 5 to check your temperatures when the game freezes, or shortly after restart, but I believe MBM 5 will alert you if your temps get too high, automatically prooving it is a heat problem.


If it is a heat problem (or if it isn't, you should do this anyways), carefully vacuum out your case and fans, especially the CPU fan, because the CPU overheating would be the main culprit in a heat related freeze.

MythicaL

Could be just a game specific problem. Dunno if there's a patch out yet, but I found the game to be pretty stable