hello, im at my whits end with my computer when trying to play games, mainly battlefield 2, and emplore anyone to help me as i just cant figure out whats up.
my comp is a 2 gig athlron with 1.25 gigs of ram, and an ati 9550 256 meg card.
ok, so i open up battlefield 2, somtimes i am playing halfway through a game, somtimes it happens at the menu, but either way, the screen goes black, and an "ati vpu recovery message" appears saying
VPU recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands
Please Tell ATI about this problem (it also says that a file containing the systems infromation when the crash happpens has been saved.. mayby i could e mail it to someone?)
at this point, i can sometimes click off this message and go back to thegame, still working fine, but its only a matter of time untill it resets my computer, or the messsage appears again, but this time dissables my graphics card, which only a reboot remedies!
i have replaced the graphics card once and the same problem occurs, i have the latest drivers that iv installed and uninstalled many times.
im quite sure that iv uninstalled the onboard graphics drivers, and if there are bits lurking, surley the game wouldnt work from the start.
i have only one suspission, and thats my psu... i dont really know why, but im thinking that when the game needs a big chunk of power, the psu may not be able to supply it and stops the card from working.. is this viable?
this problem has also happened with my girlfriends computer, brand new comp of semperon 1.9 gig, 750 meg ram and same graphics card.
its just baffeling, please can someone help me here.
mike
my comp is a 2 gig athlron with 1.25 gigs of ram, and an ati 9550 256 meg card.
ok, so i open up battlefield 2, somtimes i am playing halfway through a game, somtimes it happens at the menu, but either way, the screen goes black, and an "ati vpu recovery message" appears saying
VPU recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands
Please Tell ATI about this problem (it also says that a file containing the systems infromation when the crash happpens has been saved.. mayby i could e mail it to someone?)
at this point, i can sometimes click off this message and go back to thegame, still working fine, but its only a matter of time untill it resets my computer, or the messsage appears again, but this time dissables my graphics card, which only a reboot remedies!
i have replaced the graphics card once and the same problem occurs, i have the latest drivers that iv installed and uninstalled many times.
im quite sure that iv uninstalled the onboard graphics drivers, and if there are bits lurking, surley the game wouldnt work from the start.
i have only one suspission, and thats my psu... i dont really know why, but im thinking that when the game needs a big chunk of power, the psu may not be able to supply it and stops the card from working.. is this viable?
this problem has also happened with my girlfriends computer, brand new comp of semperon 1.9 gig, 750 meg ram and same graphics card.
its just baffeling, please can someone help me here.
mike