Windows Problem with GTA Vice City

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  1. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    When GTA Vice City, it always crashes after a specific amount of time.

    Running Windows 2003 Server (converted to workstation)
    P4 2.4B @ 2.8 (Watercooled)
    256MB DDR333 Crucial (Slower than stock)
    Abit Siluro FX5200

    I think it might be the graphics card. Its passively cooled with the stock Abit heatsink. And the heatsink even during normal running gets really HOT as in you cant keep your finger on it for more than 2-3 seconds.

    Any suggestions ?
     
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  2. Lucifer

    Lucifer What's a Dremel?

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    uhhh... stick a fan on the gfx card and see if it still crashes?? seems pretty obvious to me...
     
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  3. NiHiLiST

    NiHiLiST New-born car whore

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    Unhandled exception error? Everyone I know (including me) seems to be getting these after installing the latest MultiTheftAuto.
     
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  4. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    It just locks up and audio keeps looping. Doesnt respond. I have to reset the machine.
     
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  5. Foolio882

    Foolio882 What's a Dremel?

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    I get the same problem in BF1942 and SoF2, let me know if you can figureit out, because I sure as **** can't!
     
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  6. NiHiLiST

    NiHiLiST New-born car whore

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    It does sound a lot like your graphics card is overheating.
     
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  7. Darv

    Darv Bling!!

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    I had this problem with all of my 3D games. The game crashed but the audio kept playing and I had to reset it. Turned out it was because I had the FSB at 200mhz. It was fine in windows but crashed after a few mins in games.
     
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  8. Foolio882

    Foolio882 What's a Dremel?

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    SO you had a low multiplier and a high FSB set for your proc? I'm gonna try underclocking both my prac and the card and see what that does, THANKS! :thumb:
     
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  9. Rich_13

    Rich_13 What's a Dremel?

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    if urs was a stock though thats shouldn't effect it. only when o/c'ing
     
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  10. tk421

    tk421 Idiot.

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    i found that setting my ram timings back to the corsair spec's kept me from getting UE's in Tribes2 ...

    i had cranked it down to CL to 2, when i went back to 2.5 all was well ...
     
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