Weird X1900 behavior in old game

[CP5670]

I've been replaying Battlezone (the first one) for the last week and am running into a strange problem. The X1900 fan occasionally shuts down completely in the middle of the game. I use headphones and can't hear the fan speed change, so it just overheats and crashes after a minute.

I know old games often have weird issues on modern systems, but it's actually affecting something at the hardware level here. I normally use ATI Tool to set the fan speed to a constant 80% whenever a game loads up, by specifying the exe names directly instead of using the 3D detection, but that doesn't do anything in this game. I can still set the fan speed manually and then load up the game, which works but sometimes results in the fan shutting off as described earlier.

I reverted the card to stock speeds, but that made no difference. This is the only game I'm getting this problem in. Anyone here seen anything like it?

 

[ronnn]

I had problems with fan speeds and ati tray tools. Turned my fan off a couple of times - so now use rivatuner as I have had conflicts with ati tools also.

 

[CP5670]

I'll use Rivatuner then. I have never run into any problems with this before, but it's a worth a try.

 

[Bull Dog]

Wowzers an old Battlezone fan. Its been a while.

 

[Painman]

Vectorbeams FTW!!

Damn, I remember the coin-op cabinet model of that game. The dual Y-axis only joysticks. The molded plastic visor thingy that was always covered with the forehead grease of countless, unknown arcade junkies.

Ahh, memories

But seriously, it's not surprising to see older games behaving bizzarely under XP. Though it IS odd to see one get past the HAL in such a way. Setting it to Win9X under the compatibility tab might be worth a try; that may emulate a shell in which the game is more comfortable (or perhaps the OS; maybe the game attempts to talk to the hardware in ways that Compatibility Mode anticipates, but native XP, etc. doesn't).