WTF happend to my GPU!?

[Operandi]

Hardware summary...

Athlon XP 2800+ @ 2.2GHZ
ATI Radeon x800GTO
2GB DDR 3200
AOpen nForce2 board

Problem summary...

(95%) whenever I launch a D3D game it either errors out or simply closes out, I say 95% percent because I have gotten UT99 and UT2k4 to launch a few times thought I'm not sure what I've done differently to get it to launch. The system is completely stable and I don't get any blue screens.

Now I started with Catalyst 7.9 so I uninstalled those and moved to 7.10 with several uninstall and reinstalls, with no change.

Bellow is an error report from UT 2k3

UT2004 Build UT2004_Build_[2005-02-15_17.02]

OS: Windows XP 5.1 (Build: 2600)
CPU: AuthenticAMD PentiumPro-class processor @ 2208 MHz with 2047MB RAM
Video: RADEON X800 GTO (6727)

Error setting display mode: CreateDevice failed (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL). Please delete your UT2004.ini file if this error prevents you from starting the game.

History: UD3DRenderDevice::UnSetRes <- CreateDevice <- UD3DRenderDevice::SetRes <- UWindowsViewport::TryRenderDevice <- UWindowsViewportOpenWindow <- UGameEngine::Init <- InitEngine <- FMallocWindows::Free <- FMallocWindows::Free

It sounds like the GPU driver isn't responding but why?, and what can I do about it? I've already tried several driver reinstalls.

 

[Powered by AMD]

have you tried that video card in an other PC?

 

[Operandi]

I fired up Doom 3 which is Open GL and that runs fine so this appears to be a D3D issue.

Any ideas on what I can try next?

 

[Operandi]

ATI Tool tells me this....

The Video card you selected for overclocking in ATITool dose not seem to be used by windows.

Visual testing has been disabled.

To fix this, go to display properties, settings and enable the monitor output of your card.

Obviously windows is using it as it's my only graphics card.... :roll: Is DX FUBAR'd, my drivers or both?

 

[Operandi]

So after wasting several hours of driver re-installs, uninstalling and re-installing DX9 it turns out there is a problem with the 7.9 - 7.10 drivers and AGP systems (may be limited to x800 hardware) as documented here.

Once I got DX9 in a functional again state and reverted back to 7.7 everything was back to normal. This is seriously the kind of %&(! that makes you want to become a hardcore nVidia fan :|.

 

[Zstream]

Then go Nvidia and stop complaining, if you think this stuff does not happen with the Nvidia cards you are sadly mistaken...