Ok, here's the problem. I uninstalled the drivers for my GForce 5200fx as well as the card. I installed the 9600xt, everything went fine. Thing is that whenever I play FFXI it starts off fine, but after a few minutes I hear a high pitched sound coming from my pc. Last time this happened the game locked up, completely froze. I keep adjusting my settings, but nothing seems to help. I dont feel its a heat issue as I'm running 5 case fans. Any suggestions would be helpful, I will list relevant stats below:
ATI Radeon 9600xt
Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
Intel D845wn motherboard (agp4x capable)
512MB of pc133 memory
MS Windows XP Professional (all latest updates)
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Check and see if your sound card and your video card are sharing the same IRQ.
Nope, video card IRQ 16, sound card 17. I should say that this is not my first time trynig this card. Last time this happened card just completely died, figured it was a defect and exchanged it for a new one.
Edited, Sat Feb 14 12:04:10 2004 by sanguinate
Edited, Sat Feb 14 12:04:10 2004 by sanguinate
Hmm. Are you overclocking at all? Even with 5 fans, it could still possibly be heat, though I doubt it too. What sound card are you running? If you pull the sound card, does the issue go away?
Have you run a virus scan recently? try running housecall.trendmicro.com just in case
How many other programs are you running in the background? I know FFXI eats a bit of ram up.
are you experiancing the same issue in other games at all?
Run a dxdiag report and see if your computer passes all the video tests.
Have you run a virus scan recently? try running housecall.trendmicro.com just in case
How many other programs are you running in the background? I know FFXI eats a bit of ram up.
are you experiancing the same issue in other games at all?
Run a dxdiag report and see if your computer passes all the video tests.
I am having the same problem buddy ... It's intermittant. I can play like 3 hours no problem... or sometimes can be 30 mins. Seems to be more when I have more effect going on like in party team... Then all of sudden the game freeze and then high pitch sounds sometimes bring me back to windows or I have to reboot.
I have a pretty good PC. Serial ATA 10k Raptor Western, a P4C-DX from Asus 512mb of ram 3200. Same video card as you only 256mb video card. Windows xppro, p4 2.8e 1mb cache and no I don't overclock
I have run antivirus, I have a firewall, run Search and Destroy. Run DirectXDiag, run 3d2003 a couple times in the past and no problem... But yesterday I tried again 3d2003 and yes it crash the same problem at a certain test. It crashes... I will check this tonight again to see where it crash and let you know...
On my computer I can either start from Serial ATA master or IDE and my Ide Windows is just fresh install so I will try to play from that hard drive maybe windows is corrupt. The only thing though I am not sure I can just use the exect file to start the game I hope I can... otherwise it's really going to be a pain in the butt to reinstall everything.
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:07:13 2004 by Dartagnan
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:07:39 2004 by Dartagnan
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:15:50 2004 by Dartagnan
I have a pretty good PC. Serial ATA 10k Raptor Western, a P4C-DX from Asus 512mb of ram 3200. Same video card as you only 256mb video card. Windows xppro, p4 2.8e 1mb cache and no I don't overclock
I have run antivirus, I have a firewall, run Search and Destroy. Run DirectXDiag, run 3d2003 a couple times in the past and no problem... But yesterday I tried again 3d2003 and yes it crash the same problem at a certain test. It crashes... I will check this tonight again to see where it crash and let you know...
On my computer I can either start from Serial ATA master or IDE and my Ide Windows is just fresh install so I will try to play from that hard drive maybe windows is corrupt. The only thing though I am not sure I can just use the exect file to start the game I hope I can... otherwise it's really going to be a pain in the butt to reinstall everything.
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:07:13 2004 by Dartagnan
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:07:39 2004 by Dartagnan
Edited, Fri Jun 4 17:15:50 2004 by Dartagnan
Found out the problem at last... the video card was defect...
Can't believe this.
Now running a 9200SE and little slower of course but no crashing whatsoever... I will get it changed.
While I tried again several times I runned 3dMark2003 was crashing at CPU test... curious anyway the easier was to change the video card... Ran again no problem whatsoever... I played severals hours and no crashing at all... It's much better playing like this... At least party can count on you. When I got crashed in the middle of fight and party disband that sucked big time... I've had it.
Can't believe this.
Now running a 9200SE and little slower of course but no crashing whatsoever... I will get it changed.
While I tried again several times I runned 3dMark2003 was crashing at CPU test... curious anyway the easier was to change the video card... Ran again no problem whatsoever... I played severals hours and no crashing at all... It's much better playing like this... At least party can count on you. When I got crashed in the middle of fight and party disband that sucked big time... I've had it.
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