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Old May 01, 2006, 09:24 PM // 21:24   #1
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Default Neverending VPU Recovery Errors in both Guild Wars games
I am getting constant VPU recovery errors in both games. They occur randomly in different areas of the game at random. What will happen is that my screen will freeze for five seconds and go black and sometimes recover to norm (thanks to VPU Recovery) and other times it will lock up my PC with the sound looping and I have to press the reset button on the case.

Here are my system specs

I am using a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB card

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Host Name:                 PRIMARY
OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version:                5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer:           Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration:          Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type:             Uniprocessor Free
Registered Owner:          Aaron Train
Registered Organization:   
Product ID:                55274-640-4221732-23171
Original Install Date:     29/04/2006, 12:40:26 PM
System Up Time:            0 Days, 2 Hours, 30 Minutes, 38 Seconds
System Manufacturer:       ASUSTeK Computer INC.
System Model:              A7N8X-X
System type:               X86-based PC
Processor(s):              1 Processor(s) Installed.
                           [01]: x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0 AuthenticAMD ~2017 Mhz
BIOS Version:              Nvidia - 42302e31
Windows Directory:         C:\WINDOWS
System Directory:          C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device:               \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale:             en-ca;English (Canada)
Input Locale:              en-us;English (United States)
Time Zone:                 (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Total Physical Memory:     1,023 MB
Available Physical Memory: 661 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size:  2,048 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 1,995 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use:    53 MB
Page File Location(s):     D:\pagefile.sys
Domain:                    NETWORK
Logon Server:              \\PRIMARY
Hotfix(s):                 84 Hotfix(s) Installed.
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NetWork Card(s):           1 NIC(s) Installed.
                           [01]: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
                                 Connection Name: Rogers Yahoo! Hi-Speed Internet
                                 DHCP Enabled:    Yes
                                 DHCP Server:     192.168.0.1
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                                 [01]: 192.168.0.131
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Old May 01, 2006, 11:34 PM // 23:34   #2
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go to their site, do a driver update, you may have to do windows updates too.
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Old May 02, 2006, 03:00 AM // 03:00   #3
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Temp solution: Running in 4xAGP compared to 8x.
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Old May 02, 2006, 12:35 PM // 12:35   #4
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Sounds like the card may be bad. Might wanna take a look at that.
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Old May 03, 2006, 09:11 AM // 09:11   #5
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Disable VPU Recovery in the ATI control Panel. I've heard that it's not good to have it on. Sometimes letting it crash or freeze can be a good diagnostic tool, so you can see error messages, artifacts, et al. Download and run rthdribl here and let it run for a good while by itself. Maximize it, but don't run it full-screen. It's a very good video card stress test. If you get a freeze or crash, your card may be bad, or could be overheating.
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Old May 03, 2006, 09:51 AM // 09:51   #6
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when I had an ATI card VPU Recovery created more problems than it solved.
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Old May 03, 2006, 10:35 AM // 10:35   #7
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Im getting the same problems on my laptop, when i log in the screen freezes and pixalates, i then get VPU recovery. My other games work fine so i dont think it is a video card problem. The game worked fine last night, i played for 4 hrs without the problem im experiencing now. I have a ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600 its using driver 6.14.10.6530. In device manager it says its working fine and like i said it works with other games such as Counter strike source.
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Old May 03, 2006, 10:44 AM // 10:44   #8
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The 6.4 cats fix many issues with GWs engine. If you still have issues, do an uninstall of the drivers, run drivercleaner and cab cleaner from direverheaven and then install with the latest ATIs (not customs).
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Old May 03, 2006, 10:46 AM // 10:46   #9
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same problem here....my laptop has ATI mobility FireGL and it VPU recovers every single day. I took my laptop down to IT department and they claim they can't "reproduce the problem".

Hopefully I can show them something with rthdribl
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