[Singh]

Ok...

I got the Radeon 9200se I had brought back a while ago to finally work with a fresh install of windows, and i've put in the Radeon Omega drivers after that and began playing doom3 (albiet at low details) and it was working fine then. After that i go to sleep and awake to discover my brother has complaints about the thing even tho i stayed up till midnight just to fix the #$@$ thing for him.

The problem now is that Doom 3 is crashing randomly and without warning. At first, I thought it was an issue with the virtual memory and tried to increase it, but the crashes persist. They happen soon after the game starts and I really dont know why its occuring. Could it be the omega drivers or the card itself? The only thing running besides it is ZoneAlarm.

Any help please? :/

[Stealth]

i too have the 9200, and i had no trouble at all with Doom 3.  the driver i'm running are the latest ones i downloaded from ATI's webpage at the time (a few months ago). "wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-00-040322a-014266c" is the name of the file.  i can send it to you if you want, since i know for sure that it works.

EDIT:  are you positive it's actually the video card?  could it be something else and just a coincidence?

[Singh]

im not positive its just the video card. Heck, i dont know what it is at all. but i just set the card to overclock a bit (not too much) and Doom3 ran fine for a while...and then crashed a bit later! But just before it crashed it gave some visual problems, where it would hang for a couple of seconds and then only move. The screen also went on and then off again for a seconds before moving normally...then around a minute later it crashed again.

I'll go get the ati drivers and remove the omega ones just in case tho...

[Singh]

no luck. The game still crashes, leaving me staring at a blank monitor that goes on and off for no reason. Although the PC still appears to be running, it doesn't respond at all!

[Singh]

ach. any help please?! Now I cant play FS2 because it gives me an error about window position or something. i tried OGL mode and got as far as the mission loading screen before it gave me a program error and sent me to the desktop! Is cant be a card problem cause it runs doom3 just fine at my uncle's house and PC, but cant do it here!

[Stealth]

uninstall your drivers

reinstall the ATI ones... let me know

[Col. Fishguts]

maybe i'st getting too hot.....try running it with the PC case open.

[Singh]

errr...

Im not using a pc case at all. Its all open-air (and cleaned frequently) and near the air-con.

Could be getting too hot tho. I un-installed and re-installed win2k and it seemed to work....before giving me the error again. I then put in DX 9.0c and SP4 and it seems to work...it goes on for longer and THEN crashes. This was still with hte omega drivers btw. I tried uninstalling them, but they still show up. Is the driver cleaner required to completely remove the drivers?

[Fury]

Omegas should come with their own uninstaller.

[Singh]

Uninstalled, tried the new Cat drivers. No luck. now it goes out just a few seconds after loading the game. I'm staring at the door and then WHAM! monitor goes blank, blinks on and off till i rest the computer.

What is wrong here? Windows or Doom3?