Chicane-UK Veteran Posted November 29, 2003 Veteran Share Posted November 29, 2003 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 You need to search around ATi's site and look for the Catalyst 3.9 HotFix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicane-UK Veteran Posted November 29, 2003 Author Veteran Share Posted November 29, 2003 Ah top man.. I just found the information on ATI's site. Thanks! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 no prob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 its actually better to just disable AGP fastwrites AGP fastwrites doesn't make anything faster, its useless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 That 22meg COD patch on ATIs site is really a modified Cat driver in and of itself. There is no need to install 3.9s and then the patch because the patch is a driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quigley0 Posted December 10, 2003 Share Posted December 10, 2003 What are the fastwrites designed to do? And why don't they work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOGglee Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 yep... fastwrites is useless... causes more problems than anything else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlonforce Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 /me wants to know why agp fastwrite is useless and why :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted December 13, 2003 Subscriber¹ Share Posted December 13, 2003 there is absolutely no need to install thatall 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted December 13, 2003 Share Posted December 13, 2003 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlonforce Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 fastwrite is useless because it doesn't affect performancei 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 ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlonforce Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinatosk Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 hotfix download http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-wme-ca...28m-011775c.exe as far as I know. they will work for windows xp, 2000, me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruBD Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athlonforce Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 try some older driver think i read about that on some other site dont know exact what version it was but i think 3.7 do work with COD if you can get you hands on it then =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted January 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 1, 2004 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?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 man, ok, all you do is go into settings, advanced and SMARTGART and slide it to off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacidz Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted January 1, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 1, 2004 Ok thanks people, Ill have a look tomorrow when I get it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniacidz Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_a_r_k Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalN. Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 not way. 50 mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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