bah, played bioshock for about 1 hour plus then it crashed again. what is your fan speed?

okay, so i just read that bioshock crashes alot. It doesn't particularly have to do with the video card.

Is there a def way of knowing if its a video card crash? There should be lines going across the screen right?

Perhaps thats why yours is more stable, higher fan speed!

Bioshock crashed when I accessed the menu -- this was when i overclocked to 670 mhz, screen became corrupted with many horizontal lines. I lowered it to 650 mhz and it crashed about 1 hour in the game, screen just became black. Not too sure if this is a bioshock problem or a video card problem, i don't seem to have any other problems with other games (counter strike, team fortress 2, c&c3) but perhaps it is because they are less taxing.

theres a test for stablilty?

is that safe overclocking to such extremes even though its at a low temperature?


won't this shorten the lifespan of your card?

crashed again trying world in conflict. i think i'll leave it on the default for now. either that, or the game is just unstable under vista!

haha perhaps its crashing because i have utorrent running in the background.

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Added on July 15, 2008, 9:22 pmnope crashed again. i think its a game problem. you guys have any problem running world in conflict?

i'll patch it and try again.

This post has been edited by OmniAtlas: Jul 15 2008, 09:22 PM

Fan up to 80%, crashes after about 5 minutes. Longer then if it was at 45 %. Strange huh??

dunno. i'm going to download the patch and see if that helps.

my malay isn't too good so i didn't watch it. so who won?

they say they might arrest anwar tomorrow. if that happens there are going to be riots. brace yourselves.

I can't play without AA. If I put in 2x AA how much will the FPS decrease?

so i'm able to run crysis without any problems. i guess its down to shitty game developers , or drivers (??) . Right now world in conflict does not work, and bioshock can sporadically crash. Team fortress 2, counterstrike source, and C&C3 work without any problems.

You guys run into any video crashes?

BTW, what are your crysis settings -- I'm on High 1680x1050; 2x AA. runs at around 25+ FPS, playable but sometimes it gives me a headache when its not smooth. Thinking of turning off the AA but then it might not look so pretty?

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Added on July 16, 2008, 2:20 amAh ivan, so is that 30 FPS w/o AA?

This post has been edited by OmniAtlas: Jul 16 2008, 02:20 AM

I have a 20" apple cinema display, anything not at 1680x1050 doesn't look sharp because its not in its 'native' resolution. Looks brighter too in that resolution.

I have a 20" screen, everything looks like crap if its below 1680x1050!

crysis will be very slow with 4x. i'll try 0x aa now. btw, you guys running in direct-x 10 or 9?

@#@!#asd arrested anwar...back to the topic..

Help, I used driver cleaner and it removed my ati drivers. Now when i try and reinstall it says it can't find the INF file. tried installing over and over again does not work. what can i do??

Reinstalling didn't work initially. I had to manually install the driver using device manager. Then after that was working i could reinstall.

Anyone know why in the ATI Overdrive section the current clock settings do not change? They are stuck at

GPU: 500 MHZ Memory Clock: 750 MHZ

even though I've overclocked to 650 MHZ/1010 MHZ

you can buy the sapphire 4850 for much less then 690, in fact, much less then 650, u just need to know where. Shop around lowyat.

hm, i dont' think there is much difference from very high to high. Try shifting back down to high. Try turning AA off as well.

I'm patching crysis now to 1.21 and will report if there is an FPS difference.

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Added on July 17, 2008, 10:45 amHere are my stats with 1.21. I think my processor is holding it back. Pls post your crysis stats.

1680x1050, High, No AA.

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TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 107.32s, Average FPS: 18.64
Min FPS: 1.46 at frame 137, Max FPS: 33.87 at frame 890
Average Tri/Sec: -17653288, Tri/Frame: -947235
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.97
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 86.49s, Average FPS: 23.12
Min FPS: 1.46 at frame 137, Max FPS: 35.30 at frame 869
Average Tri/Sec: -21646318, Tri/Frame: -936065
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 77.75s, Average FPS: 25.72
Min FPS: 1.46 at frame 137, Max FPS: 37.73 at frame 69
Average Tri/Sec: -24092960, Tri/Frame: -936631
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
!TimeDemo Run 3 Finished.
Play Time: 76.07s, Average FPS: 26.29
Min FPS: 1.46 at frame 137, Max FPS: 37.73 at frame 69
Average Tri/Sec: -24644118, Tri/Frame: -937366
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
TimeDemo Play Ended, (4 Runs Performed)
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This post has been edited by OmniAtlas: Jul 17 2008, 01:08 PM

wow, I don't know what happened. But after I enabled VSYNC, my FPS jumped. So if you're playing crysis, enable vsync for better performance.

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TimeDemo Play Started , (Total Frames: 2000, Recorded Time: 111.86s)
!TimeDemo Run 0 Finished.
Play Time: 84.66s, Average FPS: 23.63
Min FPS: 4.52 at frame 139, Max FPS: 35.34 at frame 976
Average Tri/Sec: -22376792, Tri/Frame: -947156
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.97
!TimeDemo Run 1 Finished.
Play Time: 72.16s, Average FPS: 27.72
Min FPS: 4.52 at frame 139, Max FPS: 36.83 at frame 991
Average Tri/Sec: -25958664, Tri/Frame: -936575
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
!TimeDemo Run 2 Finished.
Play Time: 71.46s, Average FPS: 27.99
Min FPS: 4.52 at frame 139, Max FPS: 36.83 at frame 991
Average Tri/Sec: -26215680, Tri/Frame: -936711
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
!TimeDemo Run 3 Finished.
Play Time: 71.30s, Average FPS: 28.05
Min FPS: 4.52 at frame 139, Max FPS: 37.23 at frame 90
Average Tri/Sec: -26269502, Tri/Frame: -936531
Recorded/Played Tris ratio: -0.98
TimeDemo Play Ended, (4 Runs Performed)
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