Hello everyone..
I have this really weird problem with my Rad9700pro and cat 4.11, all my games (especially Doom3 and Far Cry) just crash the system after playing for a few minutes after I installed the 4.11 drivers.

my system is Athlon64 3000+, 512 ddr400 ram, and nForce3 250Gb mobo.

am I the only one having this problem, or is anyone else facing the same thing?

thanks for the help in advanced.

Is it overclocked? becasue some games won't let you play if your card is over-clocked

Thanks, the problem is solved now..
it really was the 4.11 drivers, I donwloaded and installed the 4.12beta and now everything is fine..
there is a bug in the 4.11 that will crash the system which has Spunk-something game server installed.. I installed it while installing Far Cry

thanks for the help again

The problem is back again..
now, if I play in the game for more than 5 minutes it crashes the system.
I tried reverting to the 4.10 drivers but they have the same problem.
what do you guys think, is my 9700pro fried? or is it something else.

I gave my system specs previously, but didn't mention that I'm running winxp sp2, and I have mcafee internet security..

the games used to run fine before, I don't know whats happening now

please anyone help.

now something stranger is happening, doom3 is running fine, but far cry is the only game refusing to run for more than 5 minutes..

please, help, anyone..

You never answered if your card was overclocked or not?

I believe that 4.12 beta was optimized for Doom3 and HL2. So, they should run great on 4.12.

Not sure what the issue is with Far Cry. You have the latest version of DirectX?

You can also try http://www.omegadrivers.net/

You can also try to uninstal and reinstal Far Cry

Hi,
Take a look at AGP and fast write setting in the control panel center of ATI try move to x4 and if it is the same thing happened, disable it.

good luck

thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them right away

sorry I didn't answer earlier, I don't have my card overclocked.

thanks again.

still no luck, far cry refuses to stay running for more than 5 minutes at most.. but at least now it doesn't crash the system after installing the 4.10 drivers.. it just goes out of the game suddenly..

I don't know what to think anymore..

Is the fan on the card working properly?

Try to have a look at directX files maybe hardware acceleration is disable.
(start menu...run... and dxdiag). If your motherboard has a VIA chipset, update the driver.
Just one more thing, what kind of power supply have you got ?
I think you need 400W.

something really strange happened... the PSU gave a loud explosion noise and then everything went out

I bought a new PSU rated at 400w ( the old one was a 400w PSU and it lasted for more than 2 years).. and now everything is running but both games now crash the system...

the fan on the GPU is running fine..

I'm running out of ideas... what do you think?...

May be one way, go to bios setup, go to AGP device, deactivate fast write look at the aperture size or somthing like that try x64.
if you have OC the GC underclock it.
FarCry , I think, is working with DirectX9b and openGL properties.
uninstall drivers, use driver cleaner to uninstall all files and reinstall it.

I's say your card is overheating.

how does it "crash" the games, does it restart the system, or go back to windows?

thanks alot for the help guys.. at the end it was the RAM that was the culprit and made all those strange things happen that led me to believe that it was a GPU problem can you believe it..

I swapped the RAM from one of my systems to the other and all is running a.o.k now.. I even ran 3dmark05 a couple of times to test the stability and all is fine..

thanks again for all the great help