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Originally Posted by crazypete
Maybe we need to look at this another way. You said it runs for 10-15 minutes then bombs. That sounds like an overheating video card to me.
I am running a 9800 SE and playing SH3, I ran across a huge convoy in a storm and suddenly all the ship graphics went away. I could still see wakes but no ships. Then it bluescreened.
I rebooted and tried again. After 5 minutes, same thing.
I smelled something, opened my computer to find my video card basically smoking.
DANG
Switched the fan and added a casefan blowing across the top of the ATI and now it hums along just fine.
So try and open your case and put a desktop fan blasting right at the video card and see if it helps.
oh no...I cant make attachments! I have a lovely graphic of a burnt out video card!
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I'll have to agree with you. I had a Radeon 9800 Pro made by Sapphire who's fan suddenly stopped working. For an upper end card its amazing that it didn't have a heat sensor or any way of telling me that my fan had cut out. So anyway it ran for a few WEEKS without cooling and then I started to have issues. Graphical glitches and bad rendering and then graphical lock ups where everything crashed. Didn't take me more than a day to raelise what had happened. So got a new fan and it worked alright. However the new problem was that the card had permanent damage. So after a few more months of okay function it finally began to act as if it was overheating again and then died. The stock ATI fan as I later learned is terrible and mine died after only a few months of operation.
I'm currently running an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256. It's a pretty decent card for $100 and its tiding me over until I make my new computer. Runs SH3 with GW fine.
But definately this issue sounds like an overheated card. First thing to do is to check to see if the fan is working. A little strip of paper would be able to tell you without the need to harm your fingers.