Dave Peachey
Feb 17, 2007, 02:48 PM
All,
I'm having a very odd (and, so far, unresolved) problem to whit . . . I've recently attempted to upgrade my graphics card from a Sapphire Radeon x700 (AGP) to a Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro (also AGP and with both molex connectors run from separate cables from the PSU) but have found that I experience a total failure to load either Civ4 or Warlords (both with the latest patches) beyond the splash screen/opening video with the newer card.
The problem manifests itself as a complete breakup of the picture and a freezing of the screen making it impossible to do anything other than hard boot the machine to rectify the problem.
My system spec is:
Windows XP Pro with SP2 and latest fixes (inc .NET 1, 2, and 3)
Supermicro X5DA8 motherboard
Twin 3.2GHz Xeon CPUs
3GB RAM
Corsair HX620 PSU
Dell 2405FPW monitor @ 1920x1200
Latest ATI Catalyst 7.1 drivers
This setup is quite capable of running the game with the X700 card (recently I've been majoring on a large scenario in Warlords using v3.0 of Ghengis Kai's Giant Earth Map mod) - it's just a bit slower than I'd like it to be hence the proposed "upgrade" to the X1950 Pro.
I've tried a number of different things to alleviate and/or identify the problem:
rolling back the ATI drivers to an earlier version (the last I tried we're the Aug 06 drivers that came with the X1950 but I've also tried several other versions directly off the ATI web site)
downsizing the game resolution from 1920x1200 to 1680x1050 and even lower)
taking the DVI KVM switch box out of the loop
playing other equally graphics intensive games including various versions of Total War and Auran's Trainz
running a two hour video RAM burn in test - without errors - to see if the X1950 is faulty
but none of this has resolved the problem - it still freezes on both games after the splash screen/opening video.
Does anyone have any thought on what might be the problem?
Cheers
Dave
I'm having a very odd (and, so far, unresolved) problem to whit . . . I've recently attempted to upgrade my graphics card from a Sapphire Radeon x700 (AGP) to a Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro (also AGP and with both molex connectors run from separate cables from the PSU) but have found that I experience a total failure to load either Civ4 or Warlords (both with the latest patches) beyond the splash screen/opening video with the newer card.
The problem manifests itself as a complete breakup of the picture and a freezing of the screen making it impossible to do anything other than hard boot the machine to rectify the problem.
My system spec is:
Windows XP Pro with SP2 and latest fixes (inc .NET 1, 2, and 3)
Supermicro X5DA8 motherboard
Twin 3.2GHz Xeon CPUs
3GB RAM
Corsair HX620 PSU
Dell 2405FPW monitor @ 1920x1200
Latest ATI Catalyst 7.1 drivers
This setup is quite capable of running the game with the X700 card (recently I've been majoring on a large scenario in Warlords using v3.0 of Ghengis Kai's Giant Earth Map mod) - it's just a bit slower than I'd like it to be hence the proposed "upgrade" to the X1950 Pro.
I've tried a number of different things to alleviate and/or identify the problem:
rolling back the ATI drivers to an earlier version (the last I tried we're the Aug 06 drivers that came with the X1950 but I've also tried several other versions directly off the ATI web site)
downsizing the game resolution from 1920x1200 to 1680x1050 and even lower)
taking the DVI KVM switch box out of the loop
playing other equally graphics intensive games including various versions of Total War and Auran's Trainz
running a two hour video RAM burn in test - without errors - to see if the X1950 is faulty
but none of this has resolved the problem - it still freezes on both games after the splash screen/opening video.
Does anyone have any thought on what might be the problem?
Cheers
Dave