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My G400 keeps locking the computer in almost all the games I've tried so far. In all res's and color depths, o/c'ed or not. In most games it happens very rarely but in some it happens all the time: picture suddenly stands still, sound loops on. No response to any controls, except that sometimes pressing clt-alt-del twice makes the re-boot. Else I have to hit the button.
One game that invariably will crash like this is the Re-Volt Demo found at www.acclaim.net (thanx to allagag for the hint). Play 1 or 2 races -- in the 3rd, at the latest, it will hang the machine. -- Since Re-Volt (like it or not) is a fairly advanced new D3D game (June 99), there's prospects that newer games will make it even worse.
I tried AGP1X, tested with an old SB 64 instead of my Diamond S90 (A3D, Aureal 1), updated BIOS, drivers, DirectX (6.1 to 7.0) - nope. Well, at the worst, it's a bug in the hardware design.
Those crashes tend to happen in games that make heavy use of AI or otherwise keep the cpu busy in addition to its normal 3D geometry burden. Ubi's Racing Sim 2 seems to be a good candidate, with 22 car positions and opponents' behavior to calculate. And this Re-Volt game, for what reason ever. So I sometimes think it could be my p2-450 is two slow. Putting it very simply, the G400 could get too far ahead of the cpu, find nothing to continue with and be timed-out after a few empty cycles.
I know this is a rather primitive account, but who knows what's inside? Try the Re-Volt Demo on a p3-500+ or an Athlon. If you don't get those lock-ups, that will confirm my suspicion. (And I'll get another card or, sigh, another cpu.) If you get them also, there is good reason for you to see your dealer and replace your early-production G400 with a newer one -- if and when the hardware will be free from bugs at last.
Thanx for your reply.
One game that invariably will crash like this is the Re-Volt Demo found at www.acclaim.net (thanx to allagag for the hint). Play 1 or 2 races -- in the 3rd, at the latest, it will hang the machine. -- Since Re-Volt (like it or not) is a fairly advanced new D3D game (June 99), there's prospects that newer games will make it even worse.
I tried AGP1X, tested with an old SB 64 instead of my Diamond S90 (A3D, Aureal 1), updated BIOS, drivers, DirectX (6.1 to 7.0) - nope. Well, at the worst, it's a bug in the hardware design.
Those crashes tend to happen in games that make heavy use of AI or otherwise keep the cpu busy in addition to its normal 3D geometry burden. Ubi's Racing Sim 2 seems to be a good candidate, with 22 car positions and opponents' behavior to calculate. And this Re-Volt game, for what reason ever. So I sometimes think it could be my p2-450 is two slow. Putting it very simply, the G400 could get too far ahead of the cpu, find nothing to continue with and be timed-out after a few empty cycles.
I know this is a rather primitive account, but who knows what's inside? Try the Re-Volt Demo on a p3-500+ or an Athlon. If you don't get those lock-ups, that will confirm my suspicion. (And I'll get another card or, sigh, another cpu.) If you get them also, there is good reason for you to see your dealer and replace your early-production G400 with a newer one -- if and when the hardware will be free from bugs at last.
Thanx for your reply.
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