I recently installed a new video card (512MB ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series), and whenever I try to play source games, the driver crashes and forces a VPU recovery. The game itself doesn't crash, and I'm able to open up the game again but the driver will eventually crash again. This is only for source games, I'm able to play other games such as GTA IV at medium graphics for long periods of time without crashing, but source games cause crashes within minutes of starting up. Lowering my graphics settings makes the game run longer without crashing, so I would think that it is a problem of putting too much stress on the video card, but the fact that I can play more "demanding" games without crashing throws me off. If anyone could help or throw out some possible solutions, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Are you sure you have the latest driver for the card?
I had a friend with an x1800 that had the same problem, it turned out the PSU was failing and wasn't supplying enough power to the card so it would keep crashing. Replacing the PSU fixed it.
In your case, it could be a failing PSU, an overloaded PSU or the video card itself is overheating.
If you have another PSU you can test, you should.
Yes, I have uninstalled my older driver and reinstalled to the latest one. Didn't work.
As for the PSU, I tried changing it, but it didn't make a difference. I might have a few other PSUs to try out, I'll look into it. I found out that not only source games crash though. Dirt 2 and fallout: new vegas also crash, but GTA IV doesn't crash no matter how high I set the graphics to. I guess I'll test some more games.
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fixed, had to change GPU clock settings
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