Game crashes with Ati 9600 Pro

[Bart]

Hi all,

I just found this newsgroup and hope I can post my message here. I am
looking for a solution for the following issue... When I play a game (in
this instance, Formula 1 2002), my game crashes and hangs Windows XP (Home,
English edition with SP1 and all updates). The computer works perfectly fine
when not working in any 3D environment. My system is:

AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (not overclocked)
MSI KT4V motherboard (including Via Hyperion 4.48 chipset drivers and final
availabale BIOS update)
SB Live 1024 player (original Windows WDM driver)
Sapphire ATI 9600 Pro 128 Mb
512 Mb PC2700 memory
IBM 60 Gb hard drive
DVD+RW Nec1100
MSI CD-RW and MSI DVD-player
Sitecom 56k modem
3Com networkcard
Realtek networkcard
Coolermaster tower with 2 fans (front/rear)
400W power supply AOpen

Any help would be appreciated. I tried the following with no luck so far:
- 3.7 Ati Catalyst drivers
- 3.8 Ati Catalyst drivers (both after fresh install of XP)
- complete fresh install of XP

Thanks for your help in advance!

 

[Cristián Pérez V.]

Try the Omega Drivers www.omegacorner.com

 

[M. N. Here]

Switch to AGP 4x, if it still crashes, turn off fast writes. You may have to
do this in bios as well as smartgart.

Enjoy.

 

[plinkplonk]

Hi all,

I just found this newsgroup and hope I can post my message here. I am
looking for a solution for the following issue... When I play a game (in
this instance, Formula 1 2002), my game crashes and hangs Windows XP (Home,
English edition with SP1 and all updates). The computer works perfectly fine
when not working in any 3D environment. My system is:
...

Had same problem, installed catalyst 3.5 and everything worked just fine....
Now im thinking of trying omega drivers, to try out if these rumors about
them giving increased performance are true..

 

[Bart]

Had same problem, installed catalyst 3.5 and everything worked just fine....
Now im thinking of trying omega drivers, to try out if these rumors about
them giving increased performance are true..

Thanks for your suggestion.. Unfortunately, no matter which driver I try, I
get the following message:

Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown.
Microsoft Windows detected a possible device failure.

The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing
operation.
Please check with the device manufacturer for a driver update.

Maybe I should go back and switch the card?

 

[plinkplonk]

...
Thanks for your suggestion.. Unfortunately, no matter which driver I try, I
get the following message:

Computer restarted after an unexpected shutdown.
Microsoft Windows detected a possible device failure.

The driver for the display device was unable to complete a drawing
operation.
Please check with the device manufacturer for a driver update.

Maybe I should go back and switch the card?
...

You switched the card? Any luck? Sorry for no answer i was absent for a few
days...

 

[pjaca]

You switched the card? Any luck? Sorry for no answer i was absent for a few
days...

I had similar problem some time ago with different card. After a few
weeks (...) it turned out that the position of the mainboard in the
case was about 1mm lower than it should be due to too short mounting
pins. THe safety clip on the board could be closed, though one side of
the board didn't fit well. You can check this it helped me... Though
I know it sounds silly... Anyway, reinstall gart and all the drivers.
Omega drivers only improve 9500 series with unlock capabilites (thsy
unlock another 4 rendering pipes just like in 9700, since it's the
same (R300) proc.) - they do nothing for 9600 (which I own too). Check
if any devices use the same IRQ (sometimes SB Live uses the same IRQ
and crushes the system...), try to change PCI slots. Good luck.