Sapphire Radeon 960o Pro FireBlade Edition + Broken Sword 3

[Bryan Prestbury]

Hi

Just installed Broken Sword 3 game last night running on ATI drivers 3.8 and
part way through playing it bombed out and completely shut down (After 1
hour). Is this likely to be a graphics card driver issue? I was running
the game at 1024 by 768 by 32 bit, is this too high? Has this happened to
others. Sometimes when playing Morrowind it shuts down into Windows XP Pro
after 2 hour use. Using Adobe Photoshop and many other programs it is fast
and really stable. Any advise or experience?

Bryan


My system is:
ASUS A7N8X_Deluxe V2 (Nvidia Nforce drivers installed NB! I have not
installed the latest drivers 3.13 yet)
AMD XP2500+ Barton @ 10 x 200 shows up as 3000 Barton with stock AMD HSF
2x512 Crucial PC3200 DDR Ram Dual Channel Running at SPD timings running at
200
Graphics card Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Fireblade Edition Running at 400/660
with Cat 3.8 drivers installed DX 9.1B
Enermax 350 Watt PSU with twin fans running at full.
Two Coolermaster 80mm case fans (front sucking in / rear blowing out hot
air)
WD 120Gb Serial ATA HDD
IBM 40Gb Deskstar 7200 rpm ata 100 HDD
Plextor CDRW 52XCDR
Plextor DVD 16X
1 PCI mounted twin cooler fans blowing onto the HDD
Case 22C idle and CPU 58C load, Room temp 20C

 

[Navid]

Hi

Just installed Broken Sword 3 game last night running on ATI drivers 3.8 and
part way through playing it bombed out and completely shut down (After 1
hour). Is this likely to be a graphics card driver issue? I was running
the game at 1024 by 768 by 32 bit, is this too high? Has this happened to
others. Sometimes when playing Morrowind it shuts down into Windows XP Pro
after 2 hour use. Using Adobe Photoshop and many other programs it is fast
and really stable. Any advise or experience?

Bryan


My system is:
ASUS A7N8X_Deluxe V2 (Nvidia Nforce drivers installed NB! I have not
installed the latest drivers 3.13 yet)
AMD XP2500+ Barton @ 10 x 200 shows up as 3000 Barton with stock AMD HSF
2x512 Crucial PC3200 DDR Ram Dual Channel Running at SPD timings running at
200
Graphics card Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro Fireblade Edition Running at 400/660
with Cat 3.8 drivers installed DX 9.1B
Enermax 350 Watt PSU with twin fans running at full.
Two Coolermaster 80mm case fans (front sucking in / rear blowing out hot
air)
WD 120Gb Serial ATA HDD
IBM 40Gb Deskstar 7200 rpm ata 100 HDD
Plextor CDRW 52XCDR
Plextor DVD 16X
1 PCI mounted twin cooler fans blowing onto the HDD
Case 22C idle and CPU 58C load, Room temp 20C

If you are overclocking the graphics card, this can be a sign that you
need to reduce the clock rate. There are guides on how to gradually
increase the frequency and watch for problems to find the right frequency.

If you are not overclocking, this may suggest that you need better cooling.

Have you modified (reduced fan RPM) your case to reduce fan noise?

Navid

 

[Terence]

Hi

Just installed Broken Sword 3 game last night running on ATI drivers 3.8 and
part way through playing it bombed out and completely shut down (After 1
hour). Is this likely to be a graphics card driver issue? I was running
the game at 1024 by 768 by 32 bit, is this too high? Has this happened to
others. Sometimes when playing Morrowind it shuts down into Windows XP Pro
after 2 hour use. Using Adobe Photoshop and many other programs it is fast
and really stable. Any advise or experience?

Bryan

[snip]

I went through the entire game without any problems using the 3.7
drivers (which I've since upgraded to 4.1) with a 9500 Pro. I was
playing it at 1280x960 so 1024x768 shouldn't be a problem at all,
espeically for this type of adventure game. I would try a different
driver version (not necessarily the latest one) and see if that makes
a difference.