problem with a OLD graphic card :D

[WCAJoker]

well you see,im new here,and i need help with this problem.
ok,i have graphic card ATI Radeon 9600XT -ye i know its way too old
but here is the problem,when i play games,it just freezes itself,and then my desktop resolution reduces to 640 x 480 >_> ,and it says something about some VPU Recover.
you see,i bought this card like 2 years ago,and since then im having a problems with it,i wanted to give it back,but sometimes it stops with freezing,and i can play normaly,but not so long ago,it started again,and i dont know what to do,ive already installed plenty of different drivers,im using OMEGA ATI drivers atm,but still it get freezes again >__>,and again it mentions something about some processor i dont know what ,but i can still play,untill it freezes for 3 times,after 3rd time i see only black screen,but i can hear sounds in the game.

well that would be it,any help would be greatfull thx anyway

 

[AzN]

uninstall drivers and reinstall. Try setting your AGP texture to 4mb.

 

[WCAJoker]

well i tried to unistall drivers sooo many times,but nothing helped,and about that texture thing,how am i supposed to do it ,remember im using OMEGA ,and i dont xplore that much with these things,cuzz i know if i do something wrong,lol who knows

 

[Denithor]

Use Driver Cleaner to remove all old drivers.

Then reinstall the latest driver you can find for the card.

You may have some corrupted fragments floating around in there if you've installed various versions of drivers many times, sometimes that kind of thing can cause real problems.

 

[imported_Graphite]

G'Day WCAJoker,

As far as I know... If VPU Recover is coming in to play, your graphics card is basically throwing up a white flag. It could be overheating, or badly overclocked... Have you checked to see if the card's fan is still running when you start the games, or if there's enough air going through your case?

And of course, if you get that error message again, write it down, pronto, so that someone can have a look at it

Finally, are you using the latest Omega drivers? I use the straight CCC drivers from ATi, and have since my 9550 days (it's still kicking around in the family), so maybe you should give them a go...? Once ALL other graphics drivers are removed, of course.

*Edit*

Use Driver Cleaner to remove all old drivers.

You may have some corrupted fragments floating around in there if you've installed various versions of drivers many times, sometimes that kind of thing can cause real problems.

Good advice from Denithor - sometimes old drivers just won't go away...

Have a go at those, then let us know what the result is. Good luck!

 

[WCAJoker]

ok ive done everything you have said,now just to test it ,anyway i remember that the VPU thing says something like: VPU Recover has reset ur processor,becuzz it didnt respond to display driver commands :S something like that >_> and there is those buttons,which WE ALL HATE lol, send error report & don't send >_>