BackStabber
Posts: 6 +0
yea, just got a radeon 9800 off of ebay for cheap, it was tested, worked, and it was someone who had good feed back, except it didnt have a fan sold with it.... yea so i bought an artic cooling vga silencer, hmm.. seemed to work perfectly, and alas, i go to load up a game of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, or Half-Life, it crash as soon as the map loads... so im like, wtf, drivers maybe? it didnt come with any cds, so... i downloaded some from www.ati.com, but still no luck.... i have a pretty crappy computer, Pentium 3 1.2 Ghz, 320 mb ram, which i am up grading to at least 512... any reason why its doing this? i go to dxdiag, when i test direct draw, fine, but when i go to direct 3d, it reboots when it gets to the direct 3d 8 testing.. i know alot about computers, but i havnt messed with video cards a whole lot.... i dont know like which drivers i should get, ive searched yahoo, not sure which to use... if anyone can help me, thanks, i just wanna play my games..