Call Of Duty / Radeon 9600 Problems


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Hi all..

Not often problems like this crop up for me, but this one has got me stumped.

I just picked up Call of Duty today and I am having serious problems with it. When I first started out I was getting the game locking up after a minute or so, and the screen would garble up and i'd get the ATI message about the system having to restart the VPU because it had freaked out. It did this a few times and I thought I would do a reinstall as I wasn't entirely happy with the latest Catalyst and NForce2 drivers.

So i've done a really clean new install using slightly older drivers that I know work fine (Cat 3.8's and some 2.45 NForce2 drivers) - started playing the game and thought the problem had gone away until it froze up big time about 15 minutes into the game.

I don't know if this is a fault that has just developed with something on my machine as I have not yet tried any more games as yet, but just wondered if anyone was getting anything similar. As I say, this kind of thing rarely happens on my machine so i'm leaning more towards it being the game or the graphics card, as the VPU reset is triggered and I can still get back to the machine to kill the game / restart. Specs are :

Abit NF7-S v2.0

AMD Athlon XP 2600+

512MB DDR PC2700 Crucial RAM

Powercolor Radeon 9600 Pro EZ

Running fresh install of Windows XP Pro SP1 with DX9.0b. Nothing is overclocked, and temps appear to be OK in the BIOS.

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there is absolutely no need to install that

all you gotta do is disable agp fastwrites

as i stated above, it doesn't do anything, its just useless

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Nekrosoft is bang-on with that statement - installed last night, and after about 30-45 minutes my 9600 freaked out quite spectacularly. Reboot -> turned off fastwrites -> Hasnt happened again.

Well done N :) (Y)

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there is absolutely no need to install that

all you gotta do is disable agp fastwrites

as i stated above, it doesn't do anything, its just useless

Nekrosoft13, do you have any idea why disabling fastwrites fixes the problem? and why it causes it in the first place and is so useless? :unsure:

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fastwrite is useless because it doesn't affect performance

i checked on my pc, and there is no change in performance, and disabling it fixes few problems (like call of duty)

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fastwrite is useless because it doesn't affect performance

i checked on my pc, and there is no change in performance, and disabling it fixes few problems (like call of duty)

hmm ok will google a bit on this then but i think i will turn fastwrite of to if that can help to get some more stability in some games ;)

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benchmarked with 3DMark 2001 SE

Driver Version : wxp-w2k-cod-7-96-012324

with agp fastwrite on score : 8782

with agp fastwrite of score : 8769

and same test but with standard 3,9 driver

with agp fastwrite on score : 8819

with agp fastwrite of score : 8712

and i also notice grapic skiping on that cod fixed driver in 3DMark and Battlefied 1942

so i guess i will be using the official 3.9 driver

with agp fastwrite of when playing COD others i will have it on until 3.10 gets out :p

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i have call of duty on my laptop wiht a mobility 9200, my game crashes everytime i die (which is quite often lol).

i have that fastwrite disabled and still have problems. ati's website doesnt offer drivers for mobile gpus so i cant install the ones they have because they wont detect my vid card. im currently using the omega drivers based on cat 3.8. i tried 3.9 omegas but it gives me a "INF error, video card not found" or something like that. anyone know how to deal with this?

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Hey people, sorry for bringing this thread back up again but I need to know something. Tomorrow I plan to buy an ATI radeon 9600pro, but when I heard that it screws with your games I was a little put off.

How do you disable fast writes, so I can refer to this thread when I have installed it??

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Cats 3.9 or 3.10(that latest offering and also seems best) are ok.

The 3.7 were and are still quite popular.

And you can disable fastwrites from the ATI COntrol Panel going from memory i think but also from the bios if im correct.

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No worries man.

Just remember, even nvidia has issues with drivers. So dont worry bout things man.

Also, i found ATI support to be very handy and quick to respond. I am yet to find a way to contact nvidia technical support.

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funny, I can run COD ona pentium3 550 192 mb of ram

64 meg ATI RADEON 9000 without any problems or lag...

and those specs are waaay below COD's miminum standerds, I think.

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