this is really pissing me off...

[Izomorph]

My setup:

P3 600E
Tyan Mobo w/ VIA Apollo Pro 133
384 mb pc133 RAM
Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS
SB Live!
Promise Ultra 100 TX2 ide controller card
Various harddrives, cdrom drives, ethernet cards...

What the #%^@ is wrong with my computer? It can't play any games. Before loading up Diablo 2's first screen, it freezes. Before going full screen when loading up Giants, it freezes. Both end up with black screens. I'm using the latest video drivers... Is there something i'm missing?

I went from an ABIT mobo with ATI Radeon - no problems whatsoever.

Help!! i'm going insane!!

[Raccoon]

Have you tried to remove all cards (AGP, PCI, ISA)? Try it, if it makes a difference, put them back one by one to find out which one that causes trouble.

Or a reformat, maybe?

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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors.
But today we kneel only to the truth..."

--Kahlil Gibran

[equinoxe3d]

If you're using the 12.41 drivers I would check that thread:

http://discussions.hardwarecentral.c...ML/014602.html


It tells mostly these drivers may not work with a GTS card...

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Pentium II 350 MHz
160mb NEC PC100 SDRAM
Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Guillemot MaxiSound Fortissimo
Windows 98SE

[hastx]

I had the same problem with one system that had a tnt2 card, the machine would lock up any time I tried to enter ANY graphically intensive application. After troubleshooting, I came to the conclusion that it was a driver related issue, but since this was a rebuild / upgrade situation I just reformatted instead of spending more time trying to track down the exact troub., It worked fine after that.

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We do precision guesswork.

[Chilly3]

you've got all that great stuff in your computer, now what about cooling? NO game will run when your CPU gets too hot. Check that out.

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1GHz T-Bird, BCM-bc133kt, 256mbRAM,
Annihilator 2, Soundblaster LIVE!,Windows ME
30gb Maxtor 7200rpm

[snakej_777]

i had the same prob on my step-dads system...i narrowed it down to either the directx version or a video driver issue....something got corupted....

[Flash]

Izomorph, one thing you might try is to drop your AGP to 2x if you`re running 4x.

There isn`t enough difference betwen the two to worry about (1or 2 FPS in some apps) and it often solves your problem with the Apollo Pro 133 chipset.

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[SexyMF]

"...There isn`t enough difference betwen the two to worry about (1or 2 FPS in some apps) ...."

That point always worries me. Twice the bandwidth for AGP and it gives no performance increase.

[Gomez Addams]

I know what you mean. The problem is that system memory can not provide enough data to really use AGP4X. Max throughput of AGP4X is around 1200MBps while memory typically gives around 600MBps according to Sandra. This makes AGP8X sound rather pointless but, hopefully, system memory speeds will improve rapidly.


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Friends don't let friends buy P4s.

[cs_buff]

i had that same problem w/ my tnt2pro and win2k pro.

like other ppl mentioned before me, it was a driver problem. i remember it was detonator v. 6.5 in particular to me. i merely uninstalld my vid card and reinstalled w/ v. 6.31 and it did the trick. that was like 5 months ago.

also, i had some incompatible memory installed and it did something similiar too.

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pIII 800
384 megs sdram pc133
gf2 mx 200
hp 8/4/32 cd-rw
pioneer 12x dvd
sblive value
viewsonic a75f
win2k pro / win98 se