First post, by XTac
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- Newbie
Hi, I have a problem with my card and I'd like to have some help with diagnosing it.
I am running a HD 3850 AGP by Sapphire, running under Windows XP SP3. The driver I am using is Catalyst 8.3
I've had some issues with other games, for example KOTOR 2 with newest patches used to occasionally cause VPU Recovers, but it didnt stop me from finishing the game.
However, with Medal of Honor Allied Assault i was getting some random black screen and sound loop, but after a couple of seconds i was able to continue playing. But then I stumbled upon areas that caused these errors and didnt recover, it kept looping with the black screens. If I let it loop for a while, i get a BSOD caused by ati2dvag.dll. If I quit the game while its doing it, MoHAA wont start up due to "could not load opengl subsystem", and any other game i run either wont run or will run extremely slowly. This behavior continues until i restart. All is fine after that. As soon as i run MoHAA and approach the exact same spot, it loops again and craps out the entire graphic driver.
So by this point I am sure something is wrong. I hope its not the card. I can run benchmarks and other games (including MoHAA) for hours and nothing bad ever happens. The temperatures are in norm (60 celsius max), and i never see any artifacts at all. So I suspect the driver, Catalyst 8.3. Unfortunately, this is the driver that supposedly squeezes out the best performance out of this card... but oh well. So here is my question. Does anyone know what the exact issue is? Did someone else encounter a similar problem with a HD 3850 AGP (or perhaps any ATI card that uses a bridge chip?) And if someone here also has a HD 3850 AGP, you could try running MoHAA on Cata 8.3 drivers, and play through the second tank section in mission 5 from start to finish. For me it always crashes right behind a corner with the observation tower and a panzer tiger that comes at me.
Any help is appreciated.