my graphics card keeps "dyin" while im playing my games
what happens is i get a black screen then a VPU Recover window pops up saying it reset my video accelerator b/c it wasnt responding to commands...
i have the latest drivers and all, so wtf is wrong wit this

5/29/2006 8:18:21 PM

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=vpu+recover

5/29/2006 8:37:42 PM

id more of like some help as to what i can do to prevent this pseudo blue screens

5/29/2006 8:57:47 PM

ATI FUCKING SUCKS

ANY COMPANY THAT WOULD NEED TO COMPENSATE FOR SHITTY HARDWARE DESIGN BY WRITING A "VPU RECOVER" INTO THE DRIVER NEEDS TO BE PUNISHED.

okay. I'm done.

/rant.

5/29/2006 9:09:25 PM

well what pci-e card would ya recommend

5/29/2006 9:09:45 PM

Check out some competing nVidia boards. Just be sure to read the reviews on any particular card manufacturer.

I have dealt with this problem (among a few others) with various ATI cards. In the cases where this happened, the cards themselves were dead. The only real problems I have seen with nVidia have been driver-related and changing the driver version fixed the problem.

Although they are not "performance" GPUs I have had pretty good luck with Matrox, integrated Intel and VIA chipsets.

5/29/2006 9:15:56 PM

dangit i know nothing about vid cards anymore

give me specific card suggestions ~$200-250

5/29/2006 9:23:34 PM

be tee tee tee

5/30/2006 1:36:16 PM

x1800xt

5/30/2006 3:18:04 PM

geforce 7600gt or 7800gt. best cards for that price. maybe a 7900gt if you can find one

[Edited on May 31, 2006 at 3:07 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2006 3:06:24 PM

^^ what i have. 2 thumbs up.

5/31/2006 4:04:59 PM

there could be more goin on than just the video card, man... Might have a bad seating of the card, might have a driver conflict, might have old drivers still muckin up the works, might have a shitty mobo, might have a power problem.

Check all the simple things before you go out and get a new card.

5/31/2006 9:31:03 PM