Here's the run down of games that don't work:
FarCry when water quality set to anything but Low, always crashes within minutes / seconds of gameplay. If water's set to low, crashes about 15 minutes into play.
World of Warcraft within minutes of play. Tried windowed mode with same results.
3DMark03 and 05: crashes
Rage3D Tweak CCC Edition's OC test crashes my system
Possible Pixel Shader / Direct X 9.0 problems?
Games that were broken but seem to work somewhat now:
Half-Life 2: always crashed until I installed CCC
Battlefield 2: Game seems unstable in general, crashing in the menu sometimes, or else in game.
Games that work fine:
WarCraft III (w/Frozen Throne)
Half-Life 1 mods (Natural Selection)
Doom 3 (a few timedemos run without problems.)
Any videos / flash / desktop stuff I normally do works.
When I say crash, it usually occurs the screen freezes and I get a sound loop. World of WarCraft seemed to give multiple VPU Recovery errors and then just ends up crashing. No artifacts, no major graphical anomalies, no warning of a crash.
Full system specs:
Coolermaster Centurion 5
Enermax EG565AX-VE FMA 2.0 - 535W Active PFC w/2x 6-pin PCI-e connectors (I've checked voltages after crashing, 3.3V=3.28V, 5V was slightly higher than 5.0V, 12V=12.22V voltages checked in motherboard BIOS, and I have this connected to the motherboard for fan control)
DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra-D (Driver conflict?)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
4x512MB OCZ Premier PC3200 (@DDR400 stock and 2.5-3-3-8 timings)
Connect3D Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-express
120 GB WD EIDE HDD
300 GB SeaGate EIDE HDD
NEC ND-3540A DVD+/-RW DL
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
(I've tested FarCry 64-bit version on Windows XP x64 Pro, sound didn't work, but the game still crashed)
n-Force 4 6.66 Drivers
Nothing on my system is overclocked. (FSB at 200.9 MHz, CPU Voltage usually stays at 1.360V in CPU-Z
I've tried almost everything in the book and still come up with problems!
Catalyst 5.1 (CP), Omega Cat 5.6, Catalyst 5.7 (with CP and CCC)
I've RMAed the video card, thinking it was the problem, but the new one exhibits the SAME problems!
Catalyst A.I. Disabled and set to Advanced
VPU Recover enabled and disabled
Uninstalled nTune
Uninstalled nVidia PCI program
dxdiag.exe - passes all tests, even Direct X 9
Driver cleaned between each Catalyst installation.
Super-Pi 32M completed in about 50 minutes
re-installed Direct X 9.0c
Memtest86+ passed 7 times, no errors.
I'm frustrated and losing hope. This is my first time building a system, and I've put 1070$ into the system alone, not to mention my 19" LCD. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
FarCry when water quality set to anything but Low, always crashes within minutes / seconds of gameplay. If water's set to low, crashes about 15 minutes into play.
World of Warcraft within minutes of play. Tried windowed mode with same results.
3DMark03 and 05: crashes
Rage3D Tweak CCC Edition's OC test crashes my system
Possible Pixel Shader / Direct X 9.0 problems?
Games that were broken but seem to work somewhat now:
Half-Life 2: always crashed until I installed CCC
Battlefield 2: Game seems unstable in general, crashing in the menu sometimes, or else in game.
Games that work fine:
WarCraft III (w/Frozen Throne)
Half-Life 1 mods (Natural Selection)
Doom 3 (a few timedemos run without problems.)
Any videos / flash / desktop stuff I normally do works.
When I say crash, it usually occurs the screen freezes and I get a sound loop. World of WarCraft seemed to give multiple VPU Recovery errors and then just ends up crashing. No artifacts, no major graphical anomalies, no warning of a crash.
Full system specs:
Coolermaster Centurion 5
Enermax EG565AX-VE FMA 2.0 - 535W Active PFC w/2x 6-pin PCI-e connectors (I've checked voltages after crashing, 3.3V=3.28V, 5V was slightly higher than 5.0V, 12V=12.22V voltages checked in motherboard BIOS, and I have this connected to the motherboard for fan control)
DFI LanParty nf4 Ultra-D (Driver conflict?)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice
4x512MB OCZ Premier PC3200 (@DDR400 stock and 2.5-3-3-8 timings)
Connect3D Radeon X800 XL 256MB PCI-express
120 GB WD EIDE HDD
300 GB SeaGate EIDE HDD
NEC ND-3540A DVD+/-RW DL
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
(I've tested FarCry 64-bit version on Windows XP x64 Pro, sound didn't work, but the game still crashed)
n-Force 4 6.66 Drivers
Nothing on my system is overclocked. (FSB at 200.9 MHz, CPU Voltage usually stays at 1.360V in CPU-Z
I've tried almost everything in the book and still come up with problems!
Catalyst 5.1 (CP), Omega Cat 5.6, Catalyst 5.7 (with CP and CCC)
I've RMAed the video card, thinking it was the problem, but the new one exhibits the SAME problems!
Catalyst A.I. Disabled and set to Advanced
VPU Recover enabled and disabled
Uninstalled nTune
Uninstalled nVidia PCI program
dxdiag.exe - passes all tests, even Direct X 9
Driver cleaned between each Catalyst installation.
Super-Pi 32M completed in about 50 minutes
re-installed Direct X 9.0c
Memtest86+ passed 7 times, no errors.
I'm frustrated and losing hope. This is my first time building a system, and I've put 1070$ into the system alone, not to mention my 19" LCD. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!