jchornakis

Hi All,

I have a Thinkpad T60p (ATI Mobility FireGL 5200, Driver 8.442.3-080103a1-057754C-Lenovo) that I am often using to play some games, mostly Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament III without any problem. Well until yesterday.

While playing UT3, the game crashed with a message from ATI that the video card stopped responding and it had to be reset. The system fell back in a very low color mode (16bit I think) and I had to restart. Since the restart almost all 3D games have from barely noticeable to serious texture problems. The more demanding graphics the game has, the worse the problem is.

Unreal Tournament III does not even display the menu textures. In game there is not a single texture displayed:



Strangely, when I go to windowed mode, almost all of the textures are displayed but there is a noticeable lack of various effects:


The situation is better with UT2004 where it is playable in full screen but some textures are missing like the weapons or some vehicles.


In Broken sword 4 that i tested, no textures are shown. Alien Arena seems to behave OK. While connected on my external screen the problem gets worse and all games are unplayable while they used to be fine.


I uninstalled the ATI drivers and installed a fresh package from Lenovo without any difference. Dxdiag does not show any problem. Actually nobody complains. UT3 crashes most of the times during startup with an error inside kernel32.dll.

Seems to me that most likely the card is damaged in which case i will have to send the laptop to Lenovo, but is there a way to verify that this is not a problem related with windows installation. I mean, avoiding the obvious which would be to install windows on a second disk or second partition. A diagnostic utility would be good for example.

Thanks

Y.