Question about ASUS Extreme AX800XL Radeon X800XL, (256 MB) Graphic Card
I get little different colored squares all over my screen when i play games, and eventualy it restarts my pc, i have updated all my drivers, and my pc meets the requirements for all the games i own. its realy irritating, because i just got a new game, and can only play for like 5 mins, before it happens and i cant see anything, and it restarts, please help :)
Sounds like a direct x problem. What version Of direct x do you have installed? Try updating to the latest version.
Posted on Aug 02, 2007
If its not direct x, it could be your computer doesn't like your hardware acceleration level.
Try this:
1)Right click on my computer and go to properties.
2)Click on the settings tab, then advanced.
3)Once you are in the advanced window for your video card click the troubleshoot tab.
4)Move the slider for hardware acceleration down one notch.
5)Click apply, then ok.
6)Then ok again.
Try your game, and see if this helped.
If it didn't go back to step 4 and move the acceleration slider down one or two notches.
If your problem hasn't been rectified by now I would guess its your video card's memory thats the problem.
May I ask what games this happens in?
And try looking under the system and application logs and see if they have any errors around the time that the computer restarts.
I'll look into this for you but right now I need to go to bed.
In the mean time check for any game updates &/or patches which might resolve the issue.
I can already see form glancing over forums people with the ati Radeon 9500 have been having graphical problems in the game right before the system restarts on them.
I see you have an ati card but is it the same card that these people have been having trouble with - the ati Radeon 9500?
What voltage is you computers power supply?
I'm reading here that you need at least a 450w power supply as the radeon x800 XL draws a lot of power especially when it comes to graphically intense games like black and white 2 is.
Its quite possible this is your problem, once you have installed the lastest game patches/updates, try this solution I lifted from a form.
Black and White 2 is a very graphically intense game. As such, your graphics card will draw a lot of power from the power supply in your machine, especially if it is a PCI-Express card.
Having an insufficient power supply can cause the computer to hang and crash under high loads, like those experienced when playing the game. Additionally, if the PCI-E card's power usage level is set too low in the BIOS, similar results can be seen.
Try increasing the slot power to 'Heavy' or equivalent in the BIOS if you are experiencing problems with it.
Not having the latest drivers for either graphics card or motherboard chipset can result in the game's performance deteriorating over time. It is recommended that you update these drivers if you experience problems with the game.
Try what is suggested here and let me know how it goes.
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i just downloaded direct x 10 from microsoft, and before that i had 9c and the same thign was happening
thanks, but i also tryed that, all the way from just one notch down to non, and it still happend, i have heard of other people having the same problem
the game is Black & White 2 and my computer passes the specs with ease, il have a look at the logs
i found the log, the error is as follows:
Date: 8/2/2007
Time: 10:13:23 PM
type: Error
Source: ati2mtag
Category: CRT
description:
CRT invalid display type
mine is the radeon x800 XL , and thanks for all your help, i think we are close, and also i need to sleep
managed to get it working, thanks for the help, it was i didnt update my chipset and bios, so the graphics card wasnt realy doing much, and my power supply wosnt helping either, but i have a 550 now, cheers for the help
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