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Yes, I know it's old, but it has a TV tuner and video in/out. So it's what I use. It runs fine for just about anything, EXCEPT counter-strike. I can play more graphics intensive games for hours with no problems, but in CS it will crash after 5 minutes or less. This started happening about 6 months ago, and I have completely formatted and re-installed and the problem was still there. I don't even know for sure if it's the video card. But here's what happens:
I'll be playing the game and then it will freeze with the sound looping. Then the monitor will turn off (because of no output from the video card) and the sound continues to loop until I press the power button to turn off the computer. About 25% of the time, the sound looping will skip and start looping a different sound, and the game will come back a few seconds after that. Sometimes it's fine and I can continue and other times the textures are all messed up with a rainbow of colors. But then a few minutes later it will crash for real. There is nothing at all in the event viewer. I should also mention that before the game crashes, it easily runs at 100fps, even in 1600x1200x32.
The video card has a fan, but the heatsink is extremely hot, even when idle. I have tried every driver imaginable. I even tried to underclock it with the omega drivers. Is there any way to test what is really causing this problem? Are there any BIOS changes I can make to help?
I'm considering buying a really cheap video card to replace it just to see if that's the problem. Is the nvidia 6600 comparable? how bad is the 6200?
specs:
chaintech 9PJL apogee
intel p4 2.8c
2x512MB corsair xms ddr400 (says 2-2-2-5 on them, but I have tried changing it to the slowest possible)
ATI AIW 9700
promise sx4000, 4 drive raid 5 array
500w power supply
Like I said, no other game crashes it, but I have trouble blaming one of the most popular games out there. If there is anything I can try, please let me know. I appreciate your help.
I'll be playing the game and then it will freeze with the sound looping. Then the monitor will turn off (because of no output from the video card) and the sound continues to loop until I press the power button to turn off the computer. About 25% of the time, the sound looping will skip and start looping a different sound, and the game will come back a few seconds after that. Sometimes it's fine and I can continue and other times the textures are all messed up with a rainbow of colors. But then a few minutes later it will crash for real. There is nothing at all in the event viewer. I should also mention that before the game crashes, it easily runs at 100fps, even in 1600x1200x32.
The video card has a fan, but the heatsink is extremely hot, even when idle. I have tried every driver imaginable. I even tried to underclock it with the omega drivers. Is there any way to test what is really causing this problem? Are there any BIOS changes I can make to help?
I'm considering buying a really cheap video card to replace it just to see if that's the problem. Is the nvidia 6600 comparable? how bad is the 6200?
specs:
chaintech 9PJL apogee
intel p4 2.8c
2x512MB corsair xms ddr400 (says 2-2-2-5 on them, but I have tried changing it to the slowest possible)
ATI AIW 9700
promise sx4000, 4 drive raid 5 array
500w power supply
Like I said, no other game crashes it, but I have trouble blaming one of the most popular games out there. If there is anything I can try, please let me know. I appreciate your help.
