ATI SAPPHIRE RADEON 9550 256MB - Restarts and In-Game Freezes

For some reason the crashes have stopped for now, but there is still the crash in that game. I dont feel that this freezing will be rectified by a new PSU etc. It may be a compatibility issue with old game and new drivers.
I will try an updated windows (SP2) and see if that solves anything.
Any thoughts on that side of the problem? It crashes about a minute into the game. As i said an error message appears, but this problem may be for a new thread...

You could check on the games manufacturers website for any patches that may be available.

Also uninstalling and reinstalling the game may help.

What is the exact error message you are getting?

BTW I`m glad your BSOD`s have stopped.

Regards Howard

No patches available other than the one i have because its quite an old game (Soldierof Fortune2) and I already have the gold patch.

Ive uninstalled and reinstalled many-a-time.

I get the error message:
"SoF2.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry......"

Ask me if you need all that coding it creates when you click on more info.

Its funny how for just a couple of days there was manic restarting and failing and now its not...computers and strange and mysterious objects.

I`ve just found this patch HERE. Maybe it`ll help.

Regards Howard

One thing that you might want to know is that the in-game freezing has occured to more than one game. You identified from one of my minidumps that Return of the King Demo also froze with the error msg. Plus I play Call of Duty 2 which runs smoothly. Im thinking that it might be a compatibility issue between old games and my drivers or something. Activision said it was a compatibility issue but then again they get loads of emails and so might not have understood the situations properly.

Give the patch a whirl and see if it helps with that particular game.

Have you tried running the game in compatibility mode? Details of how to do this can be found HERE.


Regards Howard

Ive tried changing the compatibility mode to all sorts by right-clicking on the icon and in properties, but still it freezes. Patch currently d/ling. Will post outcome of install.

Outcome= Patch will not install. It says the files are already installed. Understandable as I have sof2 gold already.

Im thinking this could all be down to the lack of SP2? Im clueless |

Oh well, It was worth a try I suppose.

Regards Howard

I ran the MSI Live Update thing just to check for any recent updates. It found a few so i tried the mobo drivers and they installed fine. Then i tried the VGA drivers (and the picture attached is the list i got - are they each the only VGA update i need, just newer versions; or are they all part of one big update?).

However I downloaded the first file and installed it. Then installed the second, thinking that they were each indivildual updates. Obviously something went wrong as after i restarted the Catalyst Control Center icon dissapeared and my computer is acting grapics-wise as if there were no drivers installed at all (i.e. slow-bitty loading of pages and not ATI icon or file in the start menu. What on earth has gone on here? Somehow the "update" has uninstalled the Catalyst Control Centre but not replaced it! Ahhhh. Help please. Shall I just bung in the old driver CD and then do another update?

Try doing a system restore. That should fix it.

Regards Howard

this is driving me insane. CAtalyst Conrol Centre wont open :evil: . In the live update picture i attached are all the files needed to update or just the top one

I don`t know to be honest.

Why don`t you just go to the msi site and update manually?

Regards Howard

1) The MSI site is useless and doesnt list my mobo
2) After system restore catalyst conrol centre still wont open, McAfee doesnt work either.

Im going to resore back to my origional point, then reinstall old catalyst conrol ccentre from driver CD.

If your mobo is quite old. the MSI site will have it, but it`s probably in the archives somewhere.

What mobo do you have?

Regards Howard

MSI KT6V, its not old but i know its socket 462.

Take a look HERE

Regards Howard

Okay...i was just about to let my computer meet my back garden via my window when the Catlyst Centre decided to work (only after a full uninstall-reinstall). But I still have the updated motherboard drivers instaled

Please tell me if you find the mobo on the MSI website coz I cant.
I guesss from this point I will have to do the following things:
-install SP2 if possible
-get better PSU
-another stick-o-ram

If theres anything else to try pleaes post it for me

SoF2 worked for a lot longer than it ususally does but still crashed. Even after multiple driver updates something is causing it to just stop responding. Its not overheating (Temps were CPU 43C and System 32C).

This is really very annoying. Im beginning to doubt a memory problem because it takes some time to crash and other games work fine on my computer.