Curse

QuixotesGhost · Nov 15, 2006, 08:49 AM // 08:49

I'm experiencing a very wierd problem with my Ati Radeon X600/X550 Video Card. After playing Guild Wars for a bit the screen will go black and a recover box will pop up informing me that the video card has stopped recieving commands but the recover function was sucessful. I'm able to get back into the game. Later on it'll do the exact same thing. Yet once it hits the third time, EVERY TIME, it totally locks up. Every single time, 3 recover attempts before it locks up. Yet the wierd thing is, is I can actually reset the count by minimising the GW and coming back to it. Extremely wierd.

It only does this with Guild Wars. I also have Oblivion and Company of Hereos which are more system hungry games, yet GW is the one it does it with.

What in the world is going on?

Btw, before you ask... I do have the latest Drivers. I've also done a lot of fiddling around with the Video card's control panel, experimenting with resolution and effect changes, doesn't seem to work. I've also found that I can reduce the frequency at which it happens by minimizing GW during periods of downlime, like in towns waiting for parties to form and whatnot. It sounds like an overheating problem, but like I said it ONLY does this with GW. It'd do it with Company of Heroes and Oblivion as well if this was the case, right?

QuixotesGhost · Nov 18, 2006, 06:40 PM // 18:40

3 Days later and it's still happening.

Any Idea?

Fluffyx · Nov 19, 2006, 01:43 AM // 01:43

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Originally Posted by QuixotesGhost

I'm experiencing a very wierd problem with my Ati Radeon X600/X550 Video Card. After playing Guild Wars for a bit the screen will go black and a recover box will pop up informing me that the video card has stopped recieving commands but the recover function was sucessful. I'm able to get back into the game. Later on it'll do the exact same thing. Yet once it hits the third time, EVERY TIME, it totally locks up. Every single time, 3 recover attempts before it locks up. Yet the wierd thing is, is I can actually reset the count by minimising the GW and coming back to it. Extremely wierd.

It only does this with Guild Wars. I also have Oblivion and Company of Hereos which are more system hungry games, yet GW is the one it does it with.

What in the world is going on?

Btw, before you ask... I do have the latest Drivers. I've also done a lot of fiddling around with the Video card's control panel, experimenting with resolution and effect changes, doesn't seem to work. I've also found that I can reduce the frequency at which it happens by minimizing GW during periods of downlime, like in towns waiting for parties to form and whatnot. It sounds like an overheating problem, but like I said it ONLY does this with GW. It'd do it with Company of Heroes and Oblivion as well if this was the case, right?

I've had simmilar problems with my old radeon 9200 on WCIII the frozen throne, sometimes it would just happen other times I would be fine. I never really was able to find out was wrong so I switched to a gForce and it hasn't crashed yet.