Curse

Zexion · May 01, 2005, 12:41 AM // 00:41

Hello all GW techie guys.
I have a slight problem.
My MoBo (MSI K8T Neo2) is seemingly giving me gaming problems with Guild Wars.

My grafix card (ATI Radeon 9800 PRO) is needing use of VPU Recover very often.
When I play, sometimes the screen temporarily blacks out, and afterwards, it comes back and shows that it has attemped VPU Recover. Sometimes, the screen blacks out, and stays black, leaving me with reboot as only option.
I use CATALYST 5.2 for drivers, after downgrading from CATALYST 5.4, since someone pointed out that might help (it helped a bit, but not much).
Is there a solution to this? If not, I'm willing to get a new mobo (if needed). If so, which should I buy? I heard ASUS would be a good bet btw.

Also, when booting my comp, I get following messages.
"No drive attached to FastTrack controller"
"[NOTE] The BIOS is not installed!"
And my uncle configured the BIOS to not show MoBo splash image when booting, but now it does so nonetheless (after a few image-free boots).
What does this mean? Can it be removed/fixed?

If you guys could help me, I would greatly appreciate it.

_Zexion

ShadeZeRO · May 01, 2005, 01:54 AM // 01:54

First off, in your bios, disable fastrack controller, it is only used for hard drives that support that feature, etc, (most likely your using a SATA drive).

Secondly, alot of people are having problems with guildwars when it is relating to ATI cards. Keep your Cat drivers upto date at all times, usually they fix problems,etc.

have you tried turning VPU off, sometimes that causes the error.

Zexion · May 08, 2005, 07:47 PM // 19:47

Bumpage!

And I might switch computer with my dad, since his comp runs GW fine (and will run it even better when it get's my RAM).

_Zexion

Ramus · May 08, 2005, 08:23 PM // 20:23

I would also try http://www.omegadrivers.net/ if you are having problems. They are usually a good fix. I usually turn off the recovery, it used to create problems on my old radeon card.

My best advice though, get a GEForce

Zexion · May 09, 2005, 06:31 AM // 06:31

"wow what a good advice"
Problem is, GeForce don't use AGP.
Radeon does.
Thus, I have to buy BOTH a motherboard, and a grafix card, to follow that advice.
And if I turn off VPU Recover, it just freezes.
But I will try the omega drivers some time.

_Zexion

Pharoke · May 09, 2005, 02:21 PM // 14:21

Uhhhh no!! All the current Geforce 6xxx series cards come in both flavors (PCI Express & AGP). I am currently using a 6600GT AGP card with no problems at all and everything cranked all the way up in game.