Game or video card?

[sirjahmez]

I've just gotten Half life 2 and let me say, man I hate it. I guess getting the infamous memory error thing and the game crashing is a common thing. Well after upgrading everything thing on my comp, I got it to finally work by lowering all the settings in the game and the resolution.

I was wondering. If a video card can't handle a game with all the eye candy on does it cause the game to crash and mess up? I always thought it just resulted in low frame rates and stuttering? not the game crashing and acting up.

By the way I have a Sapphire X800 Pro Vivo. Just wanted to know cause with the high setting and high res on my 17 in monitor the game looks bad azz. I want to play it that way, but don't know if the problems I've had with the game is vid card related.

 

[trinibwoy]

No it shouldn't crash. It would just run slowly. What catalyst version are you running?

 

[dug777]

if in doubt try a few other Cats, make sure fast writes is off, make sure any old nvidia drivers on your system (if you ever had a nvidia card), then if all else fails to work, stick it in someone elses rig that you know is fine, that will tell you straight away if it was the card...

BTW does it crash in other games, or just hl2?

 

[sirjahmez]

Originally posted by: trinibwoy
No it shouldn't crash. It would just run slowly. What catalyst version are you running?

Well. When I had problems I uninstalled everything and used a program to make sure everything was cleaned and installed catalyst version 5.4

THe Ati card was the only one I had on my comp so it can't be driver conflict.

The game would crash at the loading parts and when it crashed a message saying "The instruction at 0x####### referenced memory at 0x#######. The memory could not be read". I went on the steam forum and it seemed this error was very common and the only real fix was like downclocking everything in the comp.

It's weird cause HL2 is the only game I even have a trouble in. I've played a lot of MOH on it and everything runs smoothly.

 

[imported_llama]

try increasing the RAM voltage a little

 

[BobDaMenkey]

That's a somewhat odd error. Try running something like Prime95, or a RAM tourture tester over night, and see if it produces any errors. If they do, then you've got some bum ram, which would be causing the crashes. Your video card shouldn't be the source of this problem.

 

[Crescent13]

I have the same memory error when I try to play Half-Life 2.

 

[Melchior]

bad memory probably

 

[Sforsyth]

When I bought my computer it did this randomly some times not even playing a game, it was mismatched memory brands in daul channel mode.