Ok the story is as follows. I recently purchased a Sapphiretech Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro and installed it into my system after removing the old drivers from my GeForce 2 GTS. I boot up after finishing the installation of the driver suite and control panel (Catalyst Version 3.2 and corresponding ATi Control panel). I decide to play some Counter-Strike and play happily for about an hour. Then without warning my CS crashes and brings up a dialogue saying that windows had detected an error in my program and was creating a log and the process would be terminated. I look for the log file to see what has gone wrong and there is no log file to be found.
At this point I thought it may have just been a one-off occurence and return to CS on another server. This time after about 10 minutes the same error is produced with the same looping sound playing as before (e.g. if I was running or shooting then the sound would keep looping over and over with a frozen screen of the last thing to happen before the crash). I begin to think it couldn't be a coincidence or a one-off occurence. To counter the problem I decided to download the latest driver suite and control panel from the Sapphiretech website. I install the new drivers and control panel and reboot. I then attempt to play Unreal Tournament 2K3 and after some time it crashes on me. Again I think it may have just been a freak crash. I start playing again and it crashes again. I check it with Counter-Strike again and CS crashes again. I am now beginning to get frustrated with the consistent crashing in all games. I try uninstalling the drivers and the card itself and the control panel and then reinstalling the card with different sets of drivers and testing them with each game I have. The same error occurs in each game, crashing (often with looping sound but not always) and taking me back out to Windows desktop. By this stage I have tried the Catalyst 3.2 and 3.4 driver sets and an unofficial set of drivers from Omega (basically tweaked ATi drivers).
It seems that no matter what drivers I have installed, the games keep crashing with the same error. My system spec is shown towards the end of the post for anyone's reference. Is there anyone else here experiencing problems, or who can shed some light on the subject and why these crashes are persisting? I need someone's help with this. I've been looking across other forums too... www.rage3d.com www.guru3d.com and a few others and have been talking with others who have been experiencing the same problems as myself. If anyone has a solution or a suggestion please drop a post in. I'm grateful for any help or suggestions as to how to solve this problem.
Spec of my System
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CPU - 2.53GHz Northwood Pentium 4
MOBO - Abit IT7-MAX2
RAM - 512MB Corsair XMS DDRAM (Platinum) PC2700
GFX - Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro
SFX - Creative SoundBlaster 512 PCI
HDD - Quantum Fireball 40GB @ 7200 RPM
MONITOR - Iiyama 19" Vision Master Pro 454
O/S - Windows 2K Pro (Service Pack 3)
DIRECTX - DX9
Installed Games
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Half-Life (Mods including SvenCoop, Counter-Strike and DoD)
Quake (Including QuakeWorld)
Quake III (Plus OSP etc)
RtCW (Plus OSP)
UT2K3
FIFA 2003
FIFA 2003 and Quake / QuakeWorld are the only games I have not had crashes in. Every other game listed there has had crashes both in OpenGL and D3D modes.
Drivers Used
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ATi Catalyst 3.2
ATi Catalyst 3.4
Latest Omega drivers
At this point I thought it may have just been a one-off occurence and return to CS on another server. This time after about 10 minutes the same error is produced with the same looping sound playing as before (e.g. if I was running or shooting then the sound would keep looping over and over with a frozen screen of the last thing to happen before the crash). I begin to think it couldn't be a coincidence or a one-off occurence. To counter the problem I decided to download the latest driver suite and control panel from the Sapphiretech website. I install the new drivers and control panel and reboot. I then attempt to play Unreal Tournament 2K3 and after some time it crashes on me. Again I think it may have just been a freak crash. I start playing again and it crashes again. I check it with Counter-Strike again and CS crashes again. I am now beginning to get frustrated with the consistent crashing in all games. I try uninstalling the drivers and the card itself and the control panel and then reinstalling the card with different sets of drivers and testing them with each game I have. The same error occurs in each game, crashing (often with looping sound but not always) and taking me back out to Windows desktop. By this stage I have tried the Catalyst 3.2 and 3.4 driver sets and an unofficial set of drivers from Omega (basically tweaked ATi drivers).
It seems that no matter what drivers I have installed, the games keep crashing with the same error. My system spec is shown towards the end of the post for anyone's reference. Is there anyone else here experiencing problems, or who can shed some light on the subject and why these crashes are persisting? I need someone's help with this. I've been looking across other forums too... www.rage3d.com www.guru3d.com and a few others and have been talking with others who have been experiencing the same problems as myself. If anyone has a solution or a suggestion please drop a post in. I'm grateful for any help or suggestions as to how to solve this problem.
Spec of my System
-------------------------
CPU - 2.53GHz Northwood Pentium 4
MOBO - Abit IT7-MAX2
RAM - 512MB Corsair XMS DDRAM (Platinum) PC2700
GFX - Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro
SFX - Creative SoundBlaster 512 PCI
HDD - Quantum Fireball 40GB @ 7200 RPM
MONITOR - Iiyama 19" Vision Master Pro 454
O/S - Windows 2K Pro (Service Pack 3)
DIRECTX - DX9
Installed Games
--------------------
Half-Life (Mods including SvenCoop, Counter-Strike and DoD)
Quake (Including QuakeWorld)
Quake III (Plus OSP etc)
RtCW (Plus OSP)
UT2K3
FIFA 2003
FIFA 2003 and Quake / QuakeWorld are the only games I have not had crashes in. Every other game listed there has had crashes both in OpenGL and D3D modes.
Drivers Used
----------------
ATi Catalyst 3.2
ATi Catalyst 3.4
Latest Omega drivers
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