9800 Pro crash with Unreal based games

[Damian Wilson]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with one class of games with my new Gigabyte 9800 Pro
256. I have no problems with any games except those based on the Unreal
engine - specifically tried Raven Shield and Unreal Tournament 2004.
Problems range from the game quitting with general protection fault to a
full blue screen, albeit with no text (common error I see from the event log
being 1000008E I think). The crash always occurs from the main menu, I never
actually get to play the game! I normally see the menu for about 10 seconds
before the crash happens. Actually, just looked at my event log. Last system
error:
Error code 10000050, parameter1 e4bff893, parameter2 00000000, parameter3
e4bff893, parameter4 00000002.

I have tried the drivers shipped with the card, and also Catalyst 4.2 and
now 4.2 to no avail. My bios is bang up to date as are all my other drivers.
Like I say, no other games appear to be affected: F1 2002, Medal of Honour,
CoD, GTA3, Homeworld 2, Live for Speed, Hidden and Dangerous 2 all play fine
at max res with 4x anti-aliasing in most cases.

Hardware is:
Asus A7V-333 board (about 18 months old I guess)
Built in CMedia sound card
AMD 2800XP with Coolermaster Aero cooler (CPU temp = 44degC under load, MB =
32degC)
1 Gb DDR 333 RAM (2700 is that?) - just boggo stuff I have to say
HGST 120Gb hard disk - new
Gigabyte Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB. Note that it has to run at AGP 4x 'cos thats
all my mobo does.
Windows XP Professional SP1 ... all updates installed.
DX 9.0b.
Plenty of other stuff too, HP Deskjet USB printer, Wacom tablet, MS USB
mouse, Wingman FF wheel.

Starting to think this card and my mobo just aren't compatible. I really
can't justify going out and spending loads more on this PC though, I'm not
normally into latest-and-greatest or overclocking anyway.

Thanks in advance,
Damian Wilson

 

[Andrew]

Starting to think this card and my mobo just aren't compatible. I really
can't justify going out and spending loads more on this PC though, I'm not
normally into latest-and-greatest or overclocking anyway.

Could be that your PSU isn't up to the job.

 

[Damian Wilson]

Could be that your PSU isn't up to the job.

Surely no games would work if that were the case?

 

[Andrew]

Surely no games would work if that were the case?

I don't know, stranger things have happened. You could try the 3.7
catalyst drivers, I use those without any problems.

 

[Damian Wilson]

I don't know, stranger things have happened. You could try the 3.7
catalyst drivers, I use those without any problems.

Actually it might be the PSU. Had the case off and its a boggo 300W PSU. I'm
running two DVD drives, a hard disk, 3 case fans and a number of USB
devices. Hmmm ... *rubs chins* .... lol

I believe AMD recommend 350W as a minimum, so think its time to upgrade the
PSU.

 

[Thor]

I have a buddy that started having these problems too.

He had a radeon 8500 and was getting the gpf errors too.

He updated his graphics and sound drivers and still no go.
Upgraded bios still did not make a difference.

Finally he disabled his onboard network adapter and added
a pci version. The crashes stopped.

Wierd.