I am the angriest man on Earth.

[ray_MAN]

About a year ago, I got a Radeon 9800 Pro. I was so happy. It was amazing playing games. I installed Morrowind, and all of a sudden, my glory ended. The game got a VPU Recover and my computer froze. I thought it was only that game. Over the next few months, more and more games froze and got the VPU Recover. Soon, it became every game I play. Now, about 2 months ago, I called ATi and they said my PSU wasn't up to snuff. So, I spent a month saving for my new PSU. I just got a 500 Watt PSU (I was thinking towards the future) for about $90. I popped it in, and I played the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory demo because that game froze and it would tell me if I fixed the problem. Well, Splinter Cell froze after 3 minutes of gameplay. I talked to badger last night and he said that it's probably my video card. I say it better not ****ing be my piece of shit video card because I just spent all of my ****ing money on a goddamn PSU! What should I do? Is it my video card?
My specs are:
Pentium 4 2.53 GHz
768 DDR Dimm RAM
ATi 9800 Pro 128 MB (Not overclocked)
500 Watt PSU

Also, my CPU fan is extremely loud. :| I tried running my computer with the case open, and no difference was noticed. :|

 

[Shamrock]

Maybe your 9800 PRO overheats.. It could also be because of the gfx drivers. Have you checked to see if it is plugged in correctly? Maybe something was knocked out of place like the power cord, etc..

I think its just a faulty video card.. Unless your CPU is overheating, but that would not cause the VPU Recovery.

 

[ray_MAN]

Yeah, I checked the power cord. But, I do also think it's my video card. But, what do I do? I am poor now.

 

[Laivasse]

The VPU recover thing and it happening in lots of different games sounds like video card overheating prob. Have you tried all the usual GPU stress-relief type stuff of turning off fast write, and turning the AGP down to 4x? afaik there's not all that much performance hit from that.

Alternatively try and keep your card physically cooler somehow.

 

[KoreBolteR]

a simple clean in the pc could do... dust it.

there might be more than one problem tho.

 

[ray_MAN]

Idid dust it. It's clean as it was when it was brand new. I will tryturning off fast write and AGP.

 

[EVIL]

You do have a fan on your card right? (infared lightbulbs in your PC is a big nono :] )

 

[ray_MAN]

It's on correctly. I don't have infared lightbulbs...