12-28-2003, 08:19 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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...... before I go shit crazy
ok.... as many folk know my pc went shit crazy a bit back. i've had one of those 'when it rains it pours' times.
my os went nuts..... $200 for win xp. ethernet card died.... $20... christmas night one of my 80 gig hds died..... $210. . now i load up FFXI..... i'm fine unti time to make a character when suddenly the screen goes black and then it is as if the game was never began. again...... the setups, menus, movies..... everything plays flawlessly. the game itself starts. crash. also I got Battlefield 1942 with the same results. not one other programs fucks up. I have a Radeon 7000 card..... if I need a new one i will be broke but i can handle it. i will not handle anymore fuck ups. advice? ..... is there any fuckin way a $200 or less can handle Doom 3? i don't understand graphics cars.... |
12-28-2003, 08:33 PM | #2 (permalink) |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Get a GeForce FX 5900. It's the best card out right now for under $200. Do not get the FX 5900 SE; it's...well, not good. And don't get the Ultra since they're well over $300. A Radeon 9800 will do good as well, but I couldn't find any for under $200.
There's a small problem in the video card market right now. The "budget" DirectX 9 cards have benchmarked decent in Doom 3, but play most of today's games (BF 1942, FFXI, UT2k3, Max Payne 2, etc.) at an unimpressive rate. On the other hand, the older DirectX 8 cards (GeForce 4 TI series) perform much better than the newer budget DX 9 cards in today's games, but don't do as well in Doom 3. See my point? You need a card that will perform today's games good as well as future games that rely heavily on DirectX 9. I'd go for a GeForce FX 5900. If you want to spend more money, there's more powerful cards out there. -Lasereth
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12-28-2003, 09:51 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Z, sounds like you had to reinstall everything.
go up to the radeon site and get the latest drivers for your video card. i have a radeon 7000 pci on this pc now and its a pretty decent card.
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12-28-2003, 10:40 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Yeah, install the drivers! I figured you had them installed. Not having the correct video drivers installed will cause odd events like the crashing to occur!
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12-29-2003, 12:35 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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12-29-2003, 12:38 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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Location: New Orleans
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Check the fan on the vid card. I had the same problems with my GeForce 4 the past few days. Was playing Need for Speed Rice and th video would lock up after about 10-15 mins and I would have to reboot. I also started having lines scrolling horizontally. I took the card out and almost burned my fingerprints off. Fan wasn't working properly and cooling thus overheating the card. I blew out all the dust and spun the fan a few times with my fingers and reinstalled and havnt had anymore problems yet.
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12-29-2003, 07:47 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: California
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Sounds like one of your ram sticks is bad or they don't like each other........ My old AMD 1.3 would run flawlessly except for games..... I had one 256 and later bought another 256, then the problems started..... It drove me nuts until I just said screw it and bought two new 256's. High end games would still crash on occasion but for the most part things ran smoothly.
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12-29-2003, 03:34 PM | #13 (permalink) |
Crazy
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Update!
alright. last night i did a new driver install... and it didn't work a bit. today I sent my mom of with a dreaded Credit Card... I am not in debt cuz I avoid them, anyhow...... wal-mart sold out..... and i realized i had forgotten to redo directx.... downloaded directx 9 and it still wouldn't work. then what the hell... i searched again for drivers........ got the Catalyst drivers....... it worked! i have the setting all the way up and it works flawlessly! -bouncey!- |
12-29-2003, 11:14 PM | #15 (permalink) |
Crazy
Location: Salt Town, UT
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Just my two bits
I know that this thread pretty well solved itself, but I was having some pretty crazy problems with my server computer for the longest time, would only last a day or so without a reboot (it runs Linux, and typically had uptimes of over three months). So I started replacing all sorts of hardware, and it would still crash on me. Even replaced the powersupply. Until I realized, that I hadn't checked the thing that is easy to check and kills systems all of the time, ram.
In order to test your ram in your system, use a program called memtest, it comes as a bootable cd image, so just burn it and keep it around, let it run overnight on any system you are having problems with, and if it doesn't find any memory problems, you are almost guaranteed to be safe. Being a totally free program also helps to use it first before replacing a lot of stuff: http://www.memtest86.com |
12-30-2003, 09:20 AM | #17 (permalink) | |
The GrandDaddy of them all!
Location: Austin, TX
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