Hey all,
This is yet another CTD thread . Here are my specs:
Intel DP35DP mainboard
Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
2 GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 512 MB VRAM
SB Audigy 2
Win XP Home SP2
Temperatures are good. Under full load, I see 53C max for the processor. 50C max for the mainboard's sensors, about 10-20C higher for the ICH/MCH but Intel says that's normal, even not under load. 43C max for the GPU. Hard drive stays between 34C-36C all the time, doesn't look like gaming has any effect on its temperature either.
My 380W Antec Earthwatts PSU remains constant and spot-on with the voltages, just a little high for the 12V, a little high for the 5V, and a little high for the 3.3V, and then "unknown voltage" as it appears in my monitoring software is always at 1.25. Processor Vccp never goes up past 1.25 during gaming (although it does during video encoding and whatnot, so I know it's getting plenty of power).
Everything has the latest drivers/BIOS, Memtested, Prime95ed, PerformanceTested and 3DMark'd, also been playing BF2 and more intense games on it with no issues for a long time. I have also attempted a clean install to no avail.
Then I started having problems with BF2. I recently updated PB manually because I was getting kicked from servers. To be honest I didn't play a lot right before I updated because I was getting kicked, but ever since I updated I've been getting an unusual assortment of problems:
- When I get close to vehicles or in-place rocket tubes, their textures turn a fuzzy black and white, like snow, and are animated across the whole vehicle as it moves.
- When I zoom in on guns that overlay the sights as a texture (e.g., not the SA80 or SRAW, but M16, G36, etc.), that texture is entirely black and my whole screen turns black as a result--I can't see through the scope, except for a little light that is my muzzle flash.
- When I shoot, I can not hear the sound of my own gun--I used to be able to just fine. It makes me more accurate because it's less distracting , but I can't tell when I'm out of ammo during a close-quarters spray.
- When I pull up the commo rose or any other text other than the in-game text, instead of letters there are various-sized blocks for each letter.
- The text in buttons on the various menus seems to be rendered off-center on some buttons.
- Sometimes the game fails to load despite my desktop resolution/refresh rate matching my BF2 res/refresh rate (1280x1024@60Hz). I see the splash screen, it checks for the CD, the screen goes black, and then it comes back to desktop. When running in windowed mode I get some sort of weird abort/retry/cancel "Debug Assertion Failed! blah blah blah D.../Aphrodite/RendDX9Init.cpp" and the window closes before the intro movies/menu comes up. Only a restart can fix this problem.
And the big one once I'm in-game:
It crashes randomly. Sometimes (probably most of the time) when there's no action. Sometimes just after a match. Sometimes after a previous crash when I'm trying to join a server. I'll just go straight back to desktop, no error from Windows, BF2 or anything. When I crash, my graphics settings for my desktop have changed. 4-bit color, 640x480. But luckily the icons all remain in place when I manually switch back under the Properties menu of my desktop.
Here's what my textures look like:
[img]http://i38.tinypic.com/selk7n.jpg[/img]
This never happened before on my setup. All my parts are fairly new and all the other games I play work fine, including BF2 up until this point, which makes me think it's a software rather than a hardware problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Much obliged,
- Steve.
This is yet another CTD thread . Here are my specs:
Intel DP35DP mainboard
Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
2 GB DDR2 800MHz RAM
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, 512 MB VRAM
SB Audigy 2
Win XP Home SP2
Temperatures are good. Under full load, I see 53C max for the processor. 50C max for the mainboard's sensors, about 10-20C higher for the ICH/MCH but Intel says that's normal, even not under load. 43C max for the GPU. Hard drive stays between 34C-36C all the time, doesn't look like gaming has any effect on its temperature either.
My 380W Antec Earthwatts PSU remains constant and spot-on with the voltages, just a little high for the 12V, a little high for the 5V, and a little high for the 3.3V, and then "unknown voltage" as it appears in my monitoring software is always at 1.25. Processor Vccp never goes up past 1.25 during gaming (although it does during video encoding and whatnot, so I know it's getting plenty of power).
Everything has the latest drivers/BIOS, Memtested, Prime95ed, PerformanceTested and 3DMark'd, also been playing BF2 and more intense games on it with no issues for a long time. I have also attempted a clean install to no avail.
Then I started having problems with BF2. I recently updated PB manually because I was getting kicked from servers. To be honest I didn't play a lot right before I updated because I was getting kicked, but ever since I updated I've been getting an unusual assortment of problems:
- When I get close to vehicles or in-place rocket tubes, their textures turn a fuzzy black and white, like snow, and are animated across the whole vehicle as it moves.
- When I zoom in on guns that overlay the sights as a texture (e.g., not the SA80 or SRAW, but M16, G36, etc.), that texture is entirely black and my whole screen turns black as a result--I can't see through the scope, except for a little light that is my muzzle flash.
- When I shoot, I can not hear the sound of my own gun--I used to be able to just fine. It makes me more accurate because it's less distracting , but I can't tell when I'm out of ammo during a close-quarters spray.
- When I pull up the commo rose or any other text other than the in-game text, instead of letters there are various-sized blocks for each letter.
- The text in buttons on the various menus seems to be rendered off-center on some buttons.
- Sometimes the game fails to load despite my desktop resolution/refresh rate matching my BF2 res/refresh rate (1280x1024@60Hz). I see the splash screen, it checks for the CD, the screen goes black, and then it comes back to desktop. When running in windowed mode I get some sort of weird abort/retry/cancel "Debug Assertion Failed! blah blah blah D.../Aphrodite/RendDX9Init.cpp" and the window closes before the intro movies/menu comes up. Only a restart can fix this problem.
And the big one once I'm in-game:
It crashes randomly. Sometimes (probably most of the time) when there's no action. Sometimes just after a match. Sometimes after a previous crash when I'm trying to join a server. I'll just go straight back to desktop, no error from Windows, BF2 or anything. When I crash, my graphics settings for my desktop have changed. 4-bit color, 640x480. But luckily the icons all remain in place when I manually switch back under the Properties menu of my desktop.
Here's what my textures look like:
[img]http://i38.tinypic.com/selk7n.jpg[/img]
This never happened before on my setup. All my parts are fairly new and all the other games I play work fine, including BF2 up until this point, which makes me think it's a software rather than a hardware problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Much obliged,
- Steve.
Last edited by stufaro001 (2008-07-31 16:13:46)