ATI9800 VPU crash fix

[BubbaODoom]

We had some problems with a VPU crash (ATI 9800 card) the other night and I came here to search the forums for info. Well...it looks like there are lots of ppl having lots of problems and I didnt want this potential fix to get lost in a thread somewhere.

If you are having problems with a VPU crash with Steam games and are using an ATI 9800pro and XP (this is all we run) make sure to update your Microsoft .NET to the most current version. If you notice on the ATI driver page the most recent Radeon drivers need .NET. What they dont mention is that they need the NEWEST SP1 .NET update from my experience. -

-then-- Download the most recent ATI Catalyst drivers (we use the whole ATI user interface also not just the graphics driver) DONT INSTALL IT YET THOUGH.

--Then-- PROPERLY uninstall your current graphics drivers including uninstalling the card through Windows hardware manager. Dont just reinstall over the old stuff or it wont do any good. Including the ATI folder in C:. You dont want to overwrite, you want to purge ALL the old info.

--Then-- Restart the machine and install the drivers from the ATI.exe you downloaded. I didnt use any of the Windows popups for installation, just cancel them when they pop up.

--Then-- Your machine should ask to restart after the ATI.exe is finished, restart it.

--Then-- Wait patiently through a few seconds of strange graphics, finally after a few screen flickers you should be good to go. We've been running the machines for 10 hours now and no VPU lock up.

**I personally now hate the sight of the VPU screen after seeing it so often, so as an option I turned it off. Maybe this means I cant recover the desktop after a graphics crash but I dont mind**

Hope this helps someone

Bubba

 

[Hackman]

Ive constantly had trouble with VPU recover (saphire 9600xt 128mb)
Max payne 2, Call of duty and I also got it with Half life 2
I would play the game a few minutes, and the VPU recover message would come up, saying I had to restart to recover from a deadlock.
Turning it off didn't solve anything, it just crashed.

VPU recover is ****ed.
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3968.html

The VPU recover stopped occuring when playing HL2 after i installed newer nvidia nforce2 chipset drivers, and installed 4.12 betas.
Now it's the 'memory could not be read' that stops me from playing.

I'm quite sure it's my Ram that's ****ed up. I'm replacing my CPU and RAM very soon.
I get errors like these:

 

[appoooh]

If you are having problems with a VPU crash with Steam games and are using an ATI 9800pro and XP (this is all we run) make sure to update your Microsoft .NET to the most current version. If you notice on the ATI driver page the most recent Radeon drivers need .NET. What they dont mention is that they need the NEWEST SP1 .NET update from my experience.

What complete and utter bollocks. I have a 9800 Pro with the latest 4.12 Beta drivers and I don't even have the .NET runtime installed.

Hope this helps someone Bubba

You're not helping anyone. Go away.

 

[BubbaODoom]

It's worked for 10 pcs so far.....Look at the ATI driver page, it does state that it needs .NET.

"Go away" --->are you 8 years old or somthing?