I bought a brand new Radeon9200SE AGP 8x 64MB DDR w/ TV out video card about a month ago, and I just decided to get some games. The problem is, whenever I try to play a game, it just freezes up after like a couple minutes of playing. I have downloaded the newest video card drivers, the newest directx, and all the windows updates. I have tested my ram with Memtest 86+ v1.65 and found no errors. I have tried changing almost every setting in the display properties in the control panel, and it always freezes up. I tried it in 32bit and in 16bit, no difference. Now this is where the weird part comes in, lol ... These following games have froze when I tried to play them, they are all 3d games:
World Championship Pool 2004
GTA San Andreas
GTA Vice City
The Simpson's Hit and Run
Now here are the following games/other software that DOESNT freeze:
Any movie (mpg, avi, wmv, etc)
Visualations in WMP and Winamp
World Series of Poker Game
Now I'm wondering and confused on how the poker game works perfectly and doesnt freeze at all and the other games freeze. All these games are in 3d, even the poker game.
Does ANYONE know how I can fix this, and why this is doing this? I really want to use this video card. It's really good and the games are surprisingly fast, before it freezes. I have tried everything I can think of. The video card is a 8x and the motherboard is a 4x, does that have anything to do with it? I don't know how to change it to 4x, the only thing in the bios is an option to choose either "pci video/agp video". Also, since I have onboard video, theres 2 video cards in the device manager, could the other one be conflicting with it or something. If I uninstall it, it will just install back the next time i reboot windows. I have already disabled the onboard video. The video card and the cpu are not overclocking, and there not overheating. Theres 4 fans inside the computer, (in front, in back, on cpu, and on power supply).
I don't really know what else to say, I just really hope theres someone out there reading this right now that can help me...
My Comp Specs:
Windows XP Pro SP2/Directx 9.0c
AMD Duron 1Ghz socket 462xp
256mb ram pc133 (128x2)
Radeon9200SE AGP 8x 64MB DDR/400mhz internal DAC
(direct draw acc./direct3d acceleration/agp texture acc. are ALL ENABLED)
(I tested DirectDraw and Direct3d, no errors... and I benchmarked the video card using Fresh Diagnose, no errors and doesnt freeze.)
SiS 730 chipset
motherboard is a pc chips M810L
AGP port 4x and its got onboard video, i think its either 32mb or 64mb
80GB 7200rpm MaxTor + 10GB seagate + cdrw burner
...oh and i forgot, sometimes before the comp freezes, the picture on the screen will get all choppy and distorted(im not sure how to explain) and then go black, that happens sometimes, not always... and then when it freezes the other times, the picture on the screen will just freeze and if there were audio playing, it will start skipping and i cant move the mouse and keyboard doesnt work...
World Championship Pool 2004
GTA San Andreas
GTA Vice City
The Simpson's Hit and Run
Now here are the following games/other software that DOESNT freeze:
Any movie (mpg, avi, wmv, etc)
Visualations in WMP and Winamp
World Series of Poker Game
Now I'm wondering and confused on how the poker game works perfectly and doesnt freeze at all and the other games freeze. All these games are in 3d, even the poker game.
Does ANYONE know how I can fix this, and why this is doing this? I really want to use this video card. It's really good and the games are surprisingly fast, before it freezes. I have tried everything I can think of. The video card is a 8x and the motherboard is a 4x, does that have anything to do with it? I don't know how to change it to 4x, the only thing in the bios is an option to choose either "pci video/agp video". Also, since I have onboard video, theres 2 video cards in the device manager, could the other one be conflicting with it or something. If I uninstall it, it will just install back the next time i reboot windows. I have already disabled the onboard video. The video card and the cpu are not overclocking, and there not overheating. Theres 4 fans inside the computer, (in front, in back, on cpu, and on power supply).
I don't really know what else to say, I just really hope theres someone out there reading this right now that can help me...
My Comp Specs:
Windows XP Pro SP2/Directx 9.0c
AMD Duron 1Ghz socket 462xp
256mb ram pc133 (128x2)
Radeon9200SE AGP 8x 64MB DDR/400mhz internal DAC
(direct draw acc./direct3d acceleration/agp texture acc. are ALL ENABLED)
(I tested DirectDraw and Direct3d, no errors... and I benchmarked the video card using Fresh Diagnose, no errors and doesnt freeze.)
SiS 730 chipset
motherboard is a pc chips M810L
AGP port 4x and its got onboard video, i think its either 32mb or 64mb
80GB 7200rpm MaxTor + 10GB seagate + cdrw burner
...oh and i forgot, sometimes before the comp freezes, the picture on the screen will get all choppy and distorted(im not sure how to explain) and then go black, that happens sometimes, not always... and then when it freezes the other times, the picture on the screen will just freeze and if there were audio playing, it will start skipping and i cant move the mouse and keyboard doesnt work...