I put together a system for my niece specifically to play Second Life. I went to their website and looked up not minimum but recommended system requirements. I decided on the 3850 for GPU as it was one of the cards highest in their list of video cards. But, when she starts up the game it crashes in a very short time with this error:
"VPU recover has reset your graphics
accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver
commands. Please tell ATI technology about this problem"
I have tried to download the newest catalyst drivers and that made the game crash before ever even loading up the first screen. I rolled the driver back to the one that came with the card and it loads up again but crashes after a very short period(maybe 2-5 mins).
It seems to be a common problem from what I've seen posted in other forums, but I haven't really seen any fixes for it. I don't think I"ll be able to return the card for an NVIDIA card. I heard so many great things about this card I thought I had made a good choice.
Here is the system:
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) X2 5600+
CD: (Special Price) LG 20X DVD+/-R/+/-RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
WIndows XP Home - (i have Pro, could switch) ^^
HDD: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM
MOTHERBOARD:ASUS M3A78-EM AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD, DDR2 1066, ATI Radeon HD 3200 onboard video, Realtek ALC1200 audio chipset 8 Channels, SATA 3Gb/s, PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 1, Chipsets North Bridge AMD 780G, South Bridge AMD SB700
MEMORY: 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
POWERSUPPLY: 580 Watts Power Supplies
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 3850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
Any ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
"VPU recover has reset your graphics
accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver
commands. Please tell ATI technology about this problem"
I have tried to download the newest catalyst drivers and that made the game crash before ever even loading up the first screen. I rolled the driver back to the one that came with the card and it loads up again but crashes after a very short period(maybe 2-5 mins).
It seems to be a common problem from what I've seen posted in other forums, but I haven't really seen any fixes for it. I don't think I"ll be able to return the card for an NVIDIA card. I heard so many great things about this card I thought I had made a good choice.
Here is the system:
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) X2 5600+
CD: (Special Price) LG 20X DVD+/-R/+/-RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER
FAN: AMD ATHLON64 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
WIndows XP Home - (i have Pro, could switch) ^^
HDD: Single Hard Drive (320GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM
MOTHERBOARD:ASUS M3A78-EM AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD, DDR2 1066, ATI Radeon HD 3200 onboard video, Realtek ALC1200 audio chipset 8 Channels, SATA 3Gb/s, PCI Express 2.0 x16 - 1, Chipsets North Bridge AMD 780G, South Bridge AMD SB700
MEMORY: 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
POWERSUPPLY: 580 Watts Power Supplies
SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 3850 PCI-E 16X 512MB Video Card
Any ideas from anyone would be greatly appreciated.
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