bikerdude on 23/4/2009 at 20:54
Quote Posted by revidium
I'm having the same problem with my GeForce 8800 GTS. I've got latest drivers. It eventually recovers but usually not until I'm dead.
Some graphics cards come factory over-clocked, some don't - but there is a common problem with both in that might have not been through thorough quality control testing, as a result some cards arent capable of running at the labled speeds. Download Ati Tool, and under-clock your a tad and see if the problem is reduced or disappears
Quote Posted by Doc_Brown
my sound card--a Sound Blaster Audigy 4--refuses to install,
ok for a start thats a really, really, REALLY bad sound card, its a cut down halfbreed, somewhere between a Live and an Audigy. If you can afford it, snap it in two and buy an Audigy 1 or 2(£10/20) or go the whole hog and get an Xfi(£50)
Quote Posted by Doc_Brown
Which means we're back to square one.:wot:
Ok, can you give me your complete system specs, Hardware, OS, driver versions etc..
Doc_Brown on 25/4/2009 at 23:34
Well, I've run a series of tests on the RAM and the sound card (running some diagnostic software theBlackman recommended; playing L4D with the sound card removed; playing the game with one stick of RAM removed, then the next one, and so on), but it doesn't look like those are the issues... sound card quality be damned. :p
As for my specs:
Intel Core2 Quad CPU running at 2.4GHz
Asus P5K motherboard
4 gigs of RAM
ATI Radeon 3800 series video card
SB Audigy 4 sound card
850W power supply
Two 80 gig harddrives (with 15/50 gigs free on the master/slave, respectively)
Windows Vista Home Basic OS with DirectX 10
Let's see, what else... heat doesn't seem to be an issue, as the internal temperature has never peaked above 60C while playing L4D... various odds and ends like the peripherals, that sort of thing...
Anything else you want to know?
P.S. A friend of mine is going to let me borrow a video card soon, so I should be able to see if that's the problem shortly.
