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i got a radeon 9600 and i cant play any games because they crash, and V.P.U. comes up ?

Please Help me

Is it every game? Please list your system specifications and what driver you are currently running!

Welcome to the forums and I hope we can help you out!

right my mate has a asus p5p800 motherboard, a pentium 4 3ghz processor, 512mb of ddr400 ram, kingston i think !
And a 650 watt power supply !
Nothing is overclocked its all at stock speeds and he's running windows xp pro !
The only games he has got is doom 3 which crashes ! and command and conquer generals and the expansion pack zero hour whch does the same thing !
I know he tryed the latest available driver and the one before it off the ati website ! which didnt cure it
hes dropping it round to me wednesday night to see if i can do anything with it ?
I hope i can ! as i helped him put the sytem together !

Regards Andy

why are we all yelling?!

crashing games could be anything from corrupted drivers, bad memory on the video card, bad system memory, overheating of the CPU/GPU, or a number of other things. You really have to just wait till you see it. Do a virus and spyware scan, update the drivers, and then go down the checklist and try to figure it out.

You may want to redo the whole thing, OS, chipset drivers, everything.
If not the best thing would be to run drive cleanner to remove any remnants of your graphics drivers, then reinstall the drivers, then DirectX.
I'd recommend startin g all over.
Also, download ATI Tool and use it to record your card temps so we can start eliminating causes, you can also use it to adjust your fan speeds and the PCI clock, which can have an effect as well.

right can you all say again please ?

what do i need to do first ?

one by one please

If you have access to another card try putting that in and see if you have same problems.Good luck

Have you tried disabling VPU recover? I heard that sometimes it would be the cause of crashing. Couldn't hurt to try.

yeah ive tred disabling vpu !

just updated all drivers including chipset etc, and still the same but a bit better !
Are there other drivers apart from the official ati ones for the graphics card ?

Sounds like some remnants of drivers from another card is tweaking the stability of your current one.

A full reformat will fix that easily. If you dont want to format, well then your gonna have to go through the registry in safemode, unistall and delete everything related to a driver. Uninstall your card and its drivers. Etc.

go download DRIVER CLEANER 1.1, which removes any and all drivers you want removed... I fth at doesn't workks, as DA said, you might need to do jusr a complete format.

right ive done a complete reformat and loaded everything back on, i bought a freezer 7 fan for my cpu and u upgraded fan for the graphics card !
Had three different people look at it now and they cant stop it doing it either !


Pile'o'**** is still doing it, im gonna give up ! the dealer where i bought it said i can take it back and swap for another model im going back to nvidia !

ATI = Rubbish

Well, after all of that, like Apop's post above... you still don't know if it was the vid card unless you've tried a different card and you were able to play games without crashing.

You could end up getting a new card and still get the same thing... if that's the case, then your original card was probably fine and the CPU, mobo or system memory could be the issue.

Good luck.

I still think its your memory as well!

Try swapping it.

ive already swapped memory over and it was still the same ! i tried my geforce 6880gt card in it and it didnt crash !
But saying that the geforce wasnt as good as it was when it was in my own sytem ! maybe it is just a silly bios setting ive missed but what

people keep saying make sure fast rights is turned off but there's no option in the bios for this on a p5p800 !

but there is in the ati taskbar settings tab but it makes it even worse with blotchy screen and weird graphics !

i'm just lost now

right afterall that messing around we packeged the card up and took it back to the shop where we got it ! he gave us our money back after a big long chat about what we had done to try and solve the problem !

We bought a nvidia 6600GT came home and fitted it loaded on the latest driver off the nvidia website and kazzam !
Problem sorted ! ! ! !

The graphics are crystal clear even on the desktop wallpaper and not even a glitch once while playing games at maximum detail at 1208x1024 res.

And the drivers off the nvidia site are so much easier than Ati !

Will i ever buy a Ati card again you hear me say...............

WILL I FCUK ! !

Regards Andy

HAHA... Glad to see you got everyrhing worked out the Geforce 6600 is a great card! Funny how easy things turn into a big deal eh?

Just like to give a shout to all those who gave me idea's to what it could be !

Thanks Again !