ID:188864
 Dec 15 2003, 10:03 am
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I have an ATI Radeon 9000pro, when i play halo on it, it tends to cause my computer to reboot. Just like if i held the button in the front. I have had other games do this to me, but it was rear. Halo does this almost every time the map changes in multiplayer. Anyone have any clue as to why? I always thought of it maybie taking to much power, but i would think the computer would have some way of compisating.
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I have XP, its not a virus, it is probably the second one. When windows restarts it says it made a report and then pops up with a page saying it had to do with my disply device. Thats how i know its my graphics card.
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Scoobert - I have the same card as you. The Radeon series has known issues with Halo PC. The older drivers fail to work, and the newest Catalyst drivers fail as well. The only way I've gotten it to work on my PC without crashing at random intervals and plopping a BSOD onto my lap is by using the Catalyst 3.0 drivers. Halo manages to run under the 3.0 drivers for some reason and not the others. *shrugs*
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Kujila wrote:
Scoobert - I have the same card as you. The Radeon series has known issues with Halo PC. The older drivers fail to work, and the newest Catalyst drivers fail as well. The only way I've gotten it to work on my PC without crashing at random intervals and plopping a BSOD onto my lap is by using the Catalyst 3.0 drivers. Halo manages to run under the 3.0 drivers for some reason and not the others. *shrugs* Thats not right, i have the latest drivers and mine works fine. Sys Specs 1.2 AMD Athlon Radeon 9000 PRO Win Xp 256 mg of ram | |
Its not like it is a top of the line card, it doesnt even have its own power source. My first susician was that it was using to much power, but im not so sure now.
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See, i even have you out clocked on proccesser speed (everything else is the same). This just pis...spills my cup-o-nuddles.
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It's suggested that your Computer have a 420watt power system or more for gaming...Maybe check your specs on the power source, maybe your computer just doesn't have a good solid power source. (such as 420watts)
http://www.ibuypower.com is the site that suggests this, just goto any of it's custom PC pages and it'll say that 420watts is the recommended for PC gaming. | |
Power has nothing to do with Scoobert's problem, as it is a Widespread problem. (80 replies in that single thread alone.)
Gearbox failed to properly test and debug Halo: Combat Evolved with older ATI cards, I assume. ~Kujila | |
If you are using windows xp, then either you have that stupid virus that reboots it, or your system was in danger of failing, and when that happens, xp can auto reboot to save the system.
But if it's not XP then heck if I know.