RADEON 8500 just wont have it

Treaders · Feb 27, 2003, 01:04 PM

Yeah tried lowering all settings and still freezes up if I don't lower the Mhz of my card. ATI think the card is defective and are sending me a free replacement.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 27, 2003, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by Treaders
This is the error message:

The driver for the display device as unable to complete a drawing operation.. The display driver 8500 seems to be responsible for the instability.

I get this message with every single driver.

The files at fault are:

szAppname: Drivers.Display
szAppVer: 1002514C00013A1002
szModName: ati2dvag.dll
szModVer: 6.13.10.6118
Offset: AA1A06EA

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Originally posted by Treaders
Yeah mate UT2003 does the same along with Delta Force Black Hawk Down. I just used the video options and lowered the 3d acceleration use to about half way down as it said use to correct severe problems and I got the game running for about 30 mins, with the mouse cursor blinking, then it crashed.

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Originally posted by Treaders
Hello thankyou for your replys, I have posted on a few technical support boards and I had an email from a guy who told me he had same problem and no matter what he did he couldn't fix it. He said the only way he could get it to work without freezing is to use Rage 3d tweaker and lower the Mhz of the clock speed on the video card. I tried this (lowered from 277 to 261) and NO PROBLEMS! I can now run these games without any freezing all day long. Obviously I am pleased that I can run these games but it makes me wonder about ATI, there technical support basically gave up on me and all I can do to get the card working is to lower the clock speed, this is appauling and I will get a Geforce card next time, (And no I hadnt overclocked my card it was at default settings). I am going to report this to ATI and see what they have to say for themselves.

Again thankyou for all your help.

I have the same problems RMAed it back ATI says it fine! must be a hardware Issue .... really it worked fine for a year with no chages to the machine then it started happening, tried it in another simular system same thing... re-format install ... every driver known to man nope same things.... I am a pc tech and have tryed it all ... I gave up on it too... and yes I ended up buying a Geforce 4 4200 TI....

That ATI card is destond for Ebay alog with the letter from ati saying the card is perfecty fine

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The_Neon_Cowboy · Feb 27, 2003, 07:45 PM

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Originally posted by Treaders
Yeah tried lowering all settings and still freezes up if I don't lower the Mhz of my card. ATI think the card is defective and are sending me a free replacement.

thats nice even though I didn't get that done with mine..... They say mines fine... (yea as long as I dont pay games useing direct X, or open gl)

Feb 27, 2003, 01:04 PM	Thread Starter #31
Treaders DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Uk-Leeds Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Yeah tried lowering all settings and still freezes up if I don't lower the Mhz of my card. ATI think the card is defective and are sending me a free replacement.