pquegg

Hi everyone I have been getting constaint VPU recovery crashes and then after 2 or 3 of those I get a straight black screen lockup. This seems to happen in every game I play after about 10-15 mins and sometimes not at all for upto a few hours but it always seems to happen.

All this crashing has seemed to start as of about 2-4 weeks ago. I have tried all the different drivers and all that did was help me find a good set. I have testing my ram and done a few cpu tests also and all seems to be ok.

I'm running a MSI K8T Neo with a Athlon 64 2800+ with a 1GB Ram a Radeon 9700 Pro SB Audigy 2 with kX drivers and a 350w PSU.

Now I'm starting to think my PSU is getting ready to dive on me, am I correct in thinking this? Is there any way to test my PSU to see if its dieing? Thanks for any help.

pihwht

I reduced the crash frequency and got rid of the messages with morrowind by turning vpu off. I figure that games are going to crash, at least until you get all the settings right, so why bother with the vpu message on top of everything else. I have a vague recollection or having read somewhere that turning it off might help, and it has seemed to.

Bicka

I just came on here to post about this. I assume your using the 5.6 drivers as well?

Wasn't sure if it was just GTA San Andreas that was doing it but I've recently gotten back in to Wow and its happening a great deal in that game as well.

Never got any crashes whatsoever to do with the GPU in past drivers. Fairly worrying.

Going back to the 5.5's.

H3X4D3C1M4L

5.4 is even better than 5.5 in temrs of stability

higgledyhiggles

I always get crashes when fastwrites is set to OFF.
I know it`s recommended for ATI cards (especially Omega) but mine just seems to need it on. The new omegas default to OFF.

Its probably not that as I`m sure the next posters will tell you, although every PC is
different I guess.

Dyre Straits

I'm beginning to wonder if my recent slew of game crashes (specifically with Project: Snowblind) are due to the latest CAT 5.6. I've never had a game crash as much as this one has and I've only had the latest 5.6 drivers for about two weeks now.

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H3X4D3C1M4L

One way to find out: Go back to the 5.5's or the last revision you had that was stable, and if its back again, then its the drivers.

pquegg

Well having read these comments I tried a number of different things, first off I tried it with VPU recovery off, that just made me have hard crashes right off the bat. The next thing I tried was different drivers, I have been running the 5.6's but when I when back to the 5.5's it still happend. So I went back a little more, tried the 5.1's same deal. So I tried an even OLDER driver the 4.12's and to my suprize it still crashed.

I'm starting to think my great 9700 Pro is finally reaching the end of its lifetime And is only trying to fight off death at this point. OR my PSU is so underpowered for my system and thats why I crash all the time. I think that this has more to do with my PSU then my vid card maybe. I have 4 HDDs 1 DVD Burner 3 PCI cards 3 Case Fans and the powered 9700 Pro, on a Antec 350w PSU. Anyone else think that could be the problem?

pihwht

It is certainly within the realm of possibility. When I got my 9600 pro sometime ago, articles here at driverheaven advised larger powersupplies. It is a easy upgrade and PSUs degrade over time anyway. Surely, stress ages them.

Aligokalppeker

That can be because of enabling a windows registry tweak related with Page Allocation Table.Did you change this registry option?Fastwrite may be another source for this problem

H3X4D3C1M4L

Add it up. Give the CPU and mobo around 150 watts by themselves (this entails ram), 25 watts per HDD (if theyre all 7200 RPM), another 20 or so for the optical drive, about 50 in total for the video card....you're running damn close even by guessing

Bicka

Okay, I've been using the 5.5's for a few days now and everythings been fine. No crashes.

Just yesterday I was talking to a mate I hardly talk to anymore and he started mentioning how his World of Warcraft would occasionally freeze up, refering to something to do with 'vpu'...at which point I asked him if he'd installed the 5.6 drivers, which he had done.

Looks like a serious bug with the drivers if you ask me.

shooptek

I am new to these forums, and I am having this problem aslo. It has been happening to me for over a year, and I have not been able to fix it. I have tried many different driver versions, and still had the crashes, especially during Warcraft 3. I was thinking that maybe an older driver, like considerably older might work, or if someone could link me to somewhere to download 5.5, because I can only find 5.6, and I seemed to miss 5.5.

Thanks

H3X4D3C1M4L

Get used to it, such is the life in the world of extreme gaming and PC tweaking If 5.5's work then use 5.5s until the 5.7's come out, and if they don't fix it, then keep using the 5.5's. Once it hits 5.8 and theres no fix, then raise a stink.