Need For Speed Underground issues

[matthew utt]

ok i have a 9600xt on a Gigabyt GA-7VA mobo with 1280 meg ddr ram
the video card is a built by ati and the clock is on the standard settings
all the eye candy is on full and the resolution i run the game in is
1280x1024
when i am racing the game just freezes and is non responsive
have to reboot to get maching working again
need help
tia
matt

 

[Todd Howard]

http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4291.html
Try this
TH

 

[me]

ok i have a 9600xt on a Gigabyt GA-7VA mobo with 1280 meg ddr ram
the video card is a built by ati and the clock is on the standard settings
all the eye candy is on full and the resolution i run the game in is
1280x1024
when i am racing the game just freezes and is non responsive
have to reboot to get maching working again
need help
tia
matt

Could be a simple heat issue. Try taking the side of your case off
and letting a large fan blow into it, see what happens.

Joe

 

[matthew utt]

there is already a large fan blowing on it and i leave the side of my case
off

 

[Jim]

ok i have a 9600xt on a Gigabyt GA-7VA mobo with 1280 meg ddr ram
the video card is a built by ati and the clock is on the standard settings
all the eye candy is on full and the resolution i run the game in is
1280x1024
when i am racing the game just freezes and is non responsive
have to reboot to get maching working again
need help
tia
matt

I had hangs with NFS:U on my 9600pro as well. The screen would stop
rendering, but I could still hear the game going on normally. The only
solution that made the game playable was to play at 800x600 resolution.
Haven't had a freeze since, and it still looks great, but would prefer to
play at a higher resolution myself.

Good luck

 

[Athura]

Runs fine as on my 9700pro and cat 3.7 drivers. 1024x768, full details and
4x fsaa and ansio. I can run it on 6x and 16x ok, but 4x is enough

 

[Babble]

ok i have a 9600xt on a Gigabyt GA-7VA mobo with 1280 meg ddr ram
the video card is a built by ati and the clock is on the standard settings
all the eye candy is on full and the resolution i run the game in is
1280x1024
when i am racing the game just freezes and is non responsive
have to reboot to get maching working again
need help
tia
matt

I'm running fine on a 9600pro @ 1024x768, 2AA 4AF
Using ATI's Cat 3.7's
512mg pc2100DDR, on a XP 1700+
Med to Hi on settings in game.
Has never crashed.

I would try backing off on the eye candy. Set settings to default or
such, back off on the resolution, run it, if it runs ok then start
turning up candy a little bit at a time till you start having
problems.

 

[Vellu]

ok i have a 9600xt on a Gigabyt GA-7VA mobo with 1280 meg ddr ram

I would try backing off on the eye candy. Set settings to default or
such, back off on the resolution, run it, if it runs ok then start
turning up candy a little bit at a time till you start having
problems.

Good advice, "Light trails" and "Motion Blur" are by far the most power
hungry effects. Your card should be able to run fine with everything else
maximised but these two and perhaps even with them.

 

[Destroy]

I assume you've tried the latest NFS:U patch?

 

[matthew utt]

i cant patch cuz i have no cd patch applied

I assume you've tried the latest NFS:U patch?

 

[matthew utt]

oh and also i did find the problem
i was running 3.7 omega's and i dl'ed ati cat 3.9 and all is well running
board at 600/675 effective