Are My GFX Overheating?

Hi, i have briefly read through other posts and my question is quite similar.

Before i got the game i was confident i would be able to run D3 on the "High" setting.
My system consists of the following:

Lanparty PRO875B Motherboard
Radeon 9800 Pro 256 Meg
1 Gig DDR Ram on Dual Channel @ PC3200
P4 2.53Ghz

However i tried "High" setting and the game would randomly crash when playing. So then i tried all the other settings down to "Low".

Well even after killin some demons on low settings for half an hour, the game then froze again. I got quite upset at this point

Im pretty sure my system should be able to handle this game with ease. I am not using the latest drivers just released from ATI (4.9 Beta) because i dont think this is what is causing the random crashing.

However, from reading others posts i have seen that other people with the same GFX as me are also having the same problems and are blaming it on the card overheating. I know for a fact i could fry an egg on my cards heatsinks even when the card is quite idle. So maybe it cant handle D3?

I tried changing different stuff in my GFX control panel (Speed/Performance) but i still get the random crashes.

Does any1 have any other ideas what could be causing this, or experienced the same problems.

Thanks for readin..

Shock

No. but I'm having the same problem and it makes me sooooooo mad I have
P4 2.8
768 ram
AIW Radeon 9800pro 128m
I play on medium setting at the stupid 640x480 resolution and after a little while it still shuts off and just goes back to the desktop. Unbelievable. this sucks ass

S W E E T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I downloaded Catalyst 4.9 and I just played for about 45mins on 1024x768!!!!!!!!!!! bad ass! and I only stopped cause I'm gonna go steal me some cheeseburgers from micki d's

[JonnyOnTheSpot]

Originally Posted by GAckt

S W E E T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I downloaded Catalyst 4.9 and I just played for about 45mins on 1024x768!!!!!!!!!!! bad ass!

Man i should try that when i get home....I have the same V-card

Yeah I havent had a crash yet since installing the 4.9 drivers, but had a bunch before that...

[JonnyOnTheSpot]

Originally Posted by Shock

However, from reading others posts i have seen that other people with the same GFX as me are also having the same problems and are blaming it on the card overheating. I know for a fact i could fry an egg on my cards heatsinks even when the card is quite idle. So maybe it cant handle D3?

Does any1 have any other ideas what could be causing this, or experienced the same problems.

Shock

Well the “confetti” problem is gone… with the mentioning over heating of video cards I found my card to be very hot as well . My sound card was right next to my video card so what I did was move the sound card one slot over figured I tried everything else so WTF not try this ? It provided more circulation and air flow to the video card and now it runs great ( ATI Radein 9800 pro) I run the game at the second hightst setting and with all the advanced options set to “yes” and the game is looking good! Try it Shock and let me know..its worth a shot.

My sound card is already two slots away but thanks for idea.

I think i will try the new drivers tho cos everyone else seems to be prasing them ;]

Thanks, Shock

[JonnyOnTheSpot]

Originally Posted by Shock

My sound card is already two slots away but thanks for idea.

I think i will try the new drivers tho cos everyone else seems to be prasing them ;]

Thanks, Shock

Bummer dude........ Oh yeah...I installed the new drivers as well..good luck...

Well just wanna say, those new beta drivers are the dogs nuts. I get no crashes now and the game runs super smoothe on "Ultra" seeting for me. Fantastic :P

I dont think this is heat related. Seems like it's ATI related, maybe even 9800 users in particular.

Here's my problem. I recently upgraded my 9800 (non-pro) to a 9800 All-in-Wonder Pro. On my original 9800, Doom was unstable until I installed the Catalyst 4.9 beta drivers. Unfortunately, I can't use these with the All-in-Wonder as the "Multimedia drivers" are not included in the package, and Doom is again unstable for me. Performs much better, but will either quit to desktop or hang the computer after a bit.

Does anyone know when the final drivers are coming out, so I can actually play this game? Is there some workaround so I can use the 4.7 multimedia drivers and the 4.9 beta display drivers?

[edorien]

omegadrivers.net

Hey, care to elaborate? Why are those better? They are also based on 4.7

[kwazy]

I had exactly same problem...
I have fixed it; its very simple...
Go into your display properties -> advanced -> SMARTGART(tm) and set fast write to off...
Reset your computer...
I read somewhere that when its turned on it becomes unstable...
Give me some feed back on how u went...

[Tyberious]

fastwrites doesn't increase performance at all on ATI cards and causes instabiliuty so I recommend you turn it off. If you overclock then Doom ]|[ might have a problem with that. You could try the new 4.9betas, some 3rd party divers or tweak your Doom ]|[ autoexec.cfg file so doom ]|[ will work better with ATI's architecture.