crashes, game or video card related?

[oochr1soo]

im running a 9800pro radeon and i will start playing the game and it works for a few minutes then it freezes somewhat and i get a black screen or sometimes i get a VPU recover message from ATi. Is this related to the game or possibly video card errors?

Chris

 

[Firebird]

Well I get crashes (also with a black screen) and have to hard-reboot. My videocard is an Nvidia Geforce FX5700LE, so it would seem the game is being the faulty one, but it might be more complicated than that.

Some with FX5700LE aparently don't get the BSOD after patching, so perhaps other things like chipset, memory-size, windows-version, drivers etc play a role, so it's different parts combined that gives the crash. Perhaps that combination results in crash, when some rarely used function in directx is called, which would mean that one really would not be able to blame the game.

It is, I'm afraid, no clear case.

edit: spelling... why do I only see these spellingerrors after I hit the Post-reply-button???

 

[mrgenie]

im running a 9800pro radeon and i will start playing the game and it works for a few minutes then it freezes somewhat and i get a black screen or sometimes i get a VPU recover message from ATi. Is this related to the game or possibly video card errors?

Chris

for this card the solution is simple, install the 4.12 or 4.10 driver version and you can play it..don't ask how though you must enable the AA's each turn manually!

 

[mrgenie]

Well I get crashes (also with a black screen) and have to hard-reboot. My videocard is an Nvidia Geforce FX5700LE, so it would seem the game is being the faulty one, but it might be more complicated than that.

Some with FX5700LE aparently don't get the BSOD after patching, so perhaps other things like chipset, memory-size, windows-version, drivers etc play a role, so it's different parts combined that gives the crash. Perhaps that combination results in crash, when some rarely used function in directx is called, which would mean that one really would not be able to blame the game.

It is, I'm afraid, no clear case.

edit: spelling... why do I only see these spellingerrors after I hit the Post-reply-button???

actually, it's not really a problem because of bad software..you just must understand, civ4 is in pre-beta stage..it is not even a beta product they are pre beta testing it..i think the first real beta release with only minor errors will be in the beginning of 2006..and maybe by june 2006 we can expect a final release with less then 10 bugs and more compatible with the latest drivers and hardware but for now..just enjoy to be part of a paying pre-beta release community

 

[Fiontar]

actually, it's not really a problem because of bad software..you just must understand, civ4 is in pre-beta stage..it is not even a beta product they are pre beta testing it..i think the first real beta release with only minor errors will be in the beginning of 2006..and maybe by june 2006 we can expect a final release with less then 10 bugs and more compatible with the latest drivers and hardware but for now..just enjoy to be part of a paying pre-beta release community

The bane of broadband! With the majority of gamers having broadband connections and at least a dial up being a given, too many game companies are pushing seriously premature releases, figuring they can just fix it later. This trend has been big in MMOs for a while now, because players are used to frequent updates anyway. It's sad to see the trend spread to other games.

I had a lot of reboot problems with Sim City 4. The crashes became less frequent after some patching and I was able to build much more complex cities, but they never did get all the crash bugs ironed out before I gave up. I have not bought a single Electronics Arts game since. I hope Civ 4 isn't going to have me adding another publisher to my do not buy list.

 

[oochr1soo]

I went on to further testing here.. Tried FEAR and Battlefield 2 and both games crash with VPU Recover errors... Im thinkin i might have a video card problem..

 

[Xenophons10000]

I to have a Radeon 9800 Pro and I'm getting the "Black Screen of Death" as well... along with having to manually force a shutdown. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for the LOVE OF GOD if anyone knows how to fix this frickin problem email me at xenophons10000@woh.rr.com... and please don't tell me to push back to Catalyst 4.whatever... I need a fix with my current setup

 

[Knightospr]

I went on to further testing here.. Tried FEAR and Battlefield 2 and both games crash with VPU Recover errors... Im thinkin i might have a video card problem..

I had that problem with my video card, but an new coolingsystem solved that. Hadn't crashed with an black screen og an VPU Recover error since.

So it could be an video card vpu overheat problem.