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Ok, I finnally registered here as a last resort to get my problems fixed. mmosit's forums blow, due to the fact that a lot of people dont know how to scroll down and read and instead make new topics and bump others down, and SRO's official site is a bunch of Idiots and the GM's or anyone representing SRO ever come on....soooo My question

After the last update, SRO has gotten very wierd on me. I can only play for minutes at a time, then for some odd reason, It kills my ATi Catalyst Driver. Iv'e played more graphically demanding games, (Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Hitman, and the Games on my Steam, etc.) and SRO is the only one that kills my driver. says some VPU error. and it couldnt recover from it, and it will close the ATi Driver.

It starts kind of like a lag spike, but then my screen goes black, (audio is matching the Cues in the game, (i.e. If I was attacking a monster, itd still be attacking and killing)and then the screen goes colorfull and fuzzy goes black again, and then finally goes back into SRO and it continues about 2-3 minutes after.

But on the 3rd or 4th spike, it sometimes crashes SRO entirely.


Has anyone else encountered this problem and found a solution to it?

oh BTW Specs
Pentium 4 2.40GHz Hard Drive
2 512GB SATA Hard Drives
ATi Radeon 9200SE 128MB
512 MB RAM

Have you ever overclocked your card?

VPU error indicates that the graphic processor is damaged or overheating.

I dont know why it'd be overheating or damaged, the case is always on, and sealed(Except for the front where I have summer cooling fan) and it doesnt do this for any other game BUT silkroad.

Update your Audio Drivers/Motherboard Drivers/Video Card Drivers, and if its overclocked or not; most cards are shipped overclocked so you never know...

Also try disabling the sound

Im terribly sorry about this bump, but I'd rather not create an entirely new thread to update it, but I updated everything, but now I lost textures. everythign is blue but small details(shrubery, buildings, player/monster skins, water,) and Ive decieded to reinstall it. But Im still getting the VPU error. any other suggestions?

Cuda:

Some other things to check:

Power supply - Is your power supplying adequate energy to the system?
Have you removed the previous drivers as instructed by ATI, with the ATI Catalyst Removal Tool?
Disable AGP Fast Write on the BIOS settings, this can solve some problems.

Try to test another graphic card.

Cuda wrote:I dont know why it'd be overheating or damaged, the case is always on, and sealed(Except for the front where I have summer cooling fan) and it doesnt do this for any other game BUT silkroad.

I had the same problem, and finally my ATI 9800 pro died on me. The VPU fried. I found out that ATI is not the most game friendly card and usually suffers from heat issues. Well I was upset when it died because it was a great card. I too have a similar set up to you but a bit more RAM and less HD capacity. I switched to a geforce 6600 and haven't had the problem since.

Another thing to note is "known" heat issues with the P4 2.4ghz and some motherboards. Most compatible Motherboards have the heatsink facing the wrong way which causes the voltage regulators to get hotter than they should. Another problem, at least with my current motherboard, is the AGP slot and 256mb vid cards (which I currently have, and my ATI was 256mb as well).

What motherboard are you running on?

I too suffer from stability problems with my ATI AIW 9000 card, but I've also had some minor issues with the game C&C Renegade. The ATI drivers are not very good IMHO, and if it wasn't for the TV-IN part I'd probably have switched to an NVIDIA card by now.

well everything else is cooling fine now. Motherboard, power supply, Processor, and heat sinks are all cool around 80-90 Degrees, but the gfx card is running 140-150 tops. But the thing thats perplexing is that the problem only occurs in Silkroad.

hi cuda

yours is not an isolated problem. i have had a growing suspicion fo rmany years that is actually fairly comon that certain gaming rigs of hardware combinations will only fail with specific computer games.

For example, my pc which runs most high 3D games fine will crash after 1 hour or so of playing NWN classic. This is due to video card overheating even though the card does not overheat under other games. You see, some cominations of hardware cause problems for some combinations of wayss certain games process GPU instructions.

Basically, somehting in the way SRO does it s graphics makes your particular system vulnerable.

The solution i had for NWN was to replace my video card after it overheated and died (took 6 motnhs to slowly die). But now my new card, began to slowly die under NWN.

basically, i have come to the view that most hardware esp graphics hw in the market today is pretty incompatible. its pretty sensible, how can one game try to make every card compatible? esp old standards of cards? it simpossible - many combinations will fail.

what do you guys think?

I have the exact same problem as Cuda... Is there any way to fix it!?


(Im not a computer "expert" so id apreciate if you explain it as easely understandable as possible)

thanx

i would recommend buying a new card guys

and make sur eyou case has at least 2 fans (power supply and case fan)

aalso, you will need more fans if you play your ocmputer in a room without air conditioning in tropical conditions.

il try a new card hopefully il get it for free.

live in sweden its cold and got 2 fans.

cuda you fixed the black out problem?