black screen of death

Post by **CheapAlert** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:59 pm

radeon9500 pro

after awhile q3a blackscreens me and freezes completely after 5 minutes of fun

however quake4 runs smoothly without a prob at all

oh and sorta related, farcry also freezes as a black screen for a moment... then comes back, with the gamma reset to a dark level and back tog ame time

WHAT IS GOING ON

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:13 am

CheapAlert wrote: WHAT IS GOING ON

PC Faggotry.

Have you tried removing the old drivers with the Cat. Uninstaller program and installing the latest drivers?

Post by **CheapAlert** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:31 am

I had no old cat's installed actually. I
i'm using the new one that's gay and has no control panel

Post by **shadd_** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:33 am

hmm punkbuster update?

try pb_system 1 or 0 depending what you currently have set.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:55 pm

dunno why pb would be involved, considering i was only playing botmatches

Post by **Canis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:35 am

Can you downsample the GPU to test it at a lower clock speed?

Post by **CheapAlert** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:43 am

no

it's not even overclocked

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:26 am

Format C: ?

Post by **CheapAlert** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:25 am

i did that a few days ago, no luck

Post by **Canis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:55 am

I mean underclock it.

If that doesnt work, get a new card and save yourself the frustration.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:09 am

if it was supposed to be card stress, then how come i can play quake4/hl2 longer than less gfx intense games as it never blackscreens those games

Post by **Canis** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:38 pm

No idea....I better card will cost you under $100 though.

Post by **CheapAlert** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:53 pm

it's supposedly VPU recovery

rofl

Post by **shadd_** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:39 pm

yeah vpu recover kicked in because your card fucked up. rather than having to reboot the machine, vpu recover resets the gpu, saving a reboot.

have you even tried a different driver version or what?

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