Video Problems

Sheriff · 24th February 2004, 12:37 AM

It seems i'm experiencing some problems with games, everything is fine for about 5 minutes and then the screen goes black rendering the system useless or totally rebooting it. Has happend with Battlefield 1942 V1.6 & Command and Conquer Generals V1.7, but doesn't happen with other games like Gangland for example. I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Home on the weekend, XP is fully updated and i'm using DirextX 9.0b.

Display: Geforce 4 Ti4800 128MB (DRIVERS: 53.03)
CPU: AMD XP2000+
RAM: 512MB DDR

Any ideas?

dcunneen · 24th February 2004, 3:07 PM

Always the first thing to try is updating your video drivers. I'm not an NVIDIA owner, but IIRC there is a driver release newer than 53.03, which fixes a whole bunch of problems.

Brodieman · 24th February 2004, 3:08 PM

Try older drivers for your 4800. Mine did the same thing on various games with "Forceware" drivers, but the older "Detonators" worked fine

HuH · 24th February 2004, 3:51 PM

what are the temps of your system like? could be overheating..

Sheriff · 24th February 2004, 4:12 PM

CPU Temp is 35C Idle.

Formatted last night and installed 45.23, not sure if that was the problem because i had already tried them but thought a clean install would be a better idea. Battlefield 1942 seems to work now, one other thing that could have caused a few problems was onboard sound, so i just dumped in a new soundcard and everything is AOK.

Not sure about generals, will give that a go.

24th February 2004, 12:37 AM	#1
Sheriff Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 919	Video Problems It seems i'm experiencing some problems with games, everything is fine for about 5 minutes and then the screen goes black rendering the system useless or totally rebooting it. Has happend with Battlefield 1942 V1.6 & Command and Conquer Generals V1.7, but doesn't happen with other games like Gangland for example. I just did a fresh install of Windows XP Home on the weekend, XP is fully updated and i'm using DirextX 9.0b. Display: Geforce 4 Ti4800 128MB (DRIVERS: 53.03) CPU: AMD XP2000+ RAM: 512MB DDR Any ideas?

24th February 2004, 3:51 PM	#4
HuH Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney Posts: 2,037	what are the temps of your system like? could be overheating.. __________________ TEN YEARS & 100+ Successful Trades

24th February 2004, 3:07 PM	#2
dcunneen Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Perth 6000 Posts: 1,859	Always the first thing to try is updating your video drivers. I'm not an NVIDIA owner, but IIRC there is a driver release newer than 53.03, which fixes a whole bunch of problems.

24th February 2004, 3:08 PM	#3
Brodieman Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: End-World Posts: 4,004	Try older drivers for your 4800. Mine did the same thing on various games with "Forceware" drivers, but the older "Detonators" worked fine

24th February 2004, 4:12 PM	#5
Sheriff Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 919	CPU Temp is 35C Idle. Formatted last night and installed 45.23, not sure if that was the problem because i had already tried them but thought a clean install would be a better idea. Battlefield 1942 seems to work now, one other thing that could have caused a few problems was onboard sound, so i just dumped in a new soundcard and everything is AOK. Not sure about generals, will give that a go.