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Anyone with a 48xx and Vista 64?
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you guys aren't serious? of course people don't game over split screens. (there are a few exceptions like flight sims etc). but playing an FPS? don't be silly....
there is more to life than gaming. shocking but true.......
TNA said:or just disable one monitor while playing a game
that isn't the issue at all. quite often the crash will happen when the card is doing nothing on the windows desktop - the time when people want their 2nd screen enabled.....
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some people do over split screens here thoughyou guys aren't serious? of course people don't game over split screens. (there are a few exceptions like flight sims etc). but playing an FPS? don't be silly....
there is more to life than gaming. shocking but true.......
..there is more to life than gaming, mmm maybe for u but for people that can't do anything else, gaming is very important.
i don't game all day but i am on my pc all day everyday doing other things too.
does it crash in single monitor mode?
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3 is good , 2 is bad for gaming, with 3 you can get a widescreen hack and see triple putting the field of view really really high
Completely agree, however i disabled Aero as has been suggested and it has not happened since, it happened quite quickly in the Space Siege demo so will now run through that again to see if the crash still happens, it did not in a 3 hour CoD4 session yesterday though, and that is the most important for me.I have a HD 4870 and am using vista 64 and I have had no problems ...
Not
Anyone who is having no problems is not using dual screens.
It is not hardware conflicts, it is buggy drivers.
No problems with 8800gts using dual screens.
The 8.7 drivers for me cause blue screens, system crashes and can cause both screens to go into standby mode (this also happened on win xp).
ATI sort it out!
Still no explanation for my bad Crysis figures though, doing much better in Vantage and CoD4 than before.
nope, no crashes in single screen mode. i feel i've been quite clear on this. it's only a problem with multiple monitors.
I have my 22" sat on the table and then a 17" above with news channels/movies/conversations/articles/whatever i can watch/listen to in the time i game MMORPGs, and i run server info on our server there when i play CoD4, but mostly it's used for watching tv shows while gaming, i really like it.
Had enough of this crap.
I'm sending the 4870 back and getting a GTX 260. And being as the 8.8 BETA drivers are not helping it's not looking good for there final release, and i'm not waiting months for ATI to fix this, like has happened in the past with another ATI card i had.
Just been looking at overclocking results and a lot of the 260's are getting 700+ MHz core speeds, at that speed it will be faster than the default 4870, atleast equal to my 4870 @ 820MHz core, and have more memory, all for the same price. And WITH WORKING DRIVERS.
lol @ all the cards i've had in the past few months... 9800GX2, GTX 280, 4870, now GTX 260.. and soon 4870X2 - but that will be going straight back if i have the same problem with that card and the drivers!
I'm sending the 4870 back and getting a GTX 260. And being as the 8.8 BETA drivers are not helping it's not looking good for there final release, and i'm not waiting months for ATI to fix this, like has happened in the past with another ATI card i had.
Just been looking at overclocking results and a lot of the 260's are getting 700+ MHz core speeds, at that speed it will be faster than the default 4870, atleast equal to my 4870 @ 820MHz core, and have more memory, all for the same price. And WITH WORKING DRIVERS.
lol @ all the cards i've had in the past few months... 9800GX2, GTX 280, 4870, now GTX 260.. and soon 4870X2 - but that will be going straight back if i have the same problem with that card and the drivers!
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I get the same error message, but assumed my card was on it's last legs.
Not so bad for me as it's an old x1900xt.
I'm on xp 32bit, primary display is a 22" monitor, but is connected to a 37" tv too.
It's been getting worse with time, so I've given up and stopped using the PC totally until I get back from nurburgring and see where we stand in terms of which gpu to buy. (x2 should be out by then).
Not so bad for me as it's an old x1900xt.
I'm on xp 32bit, primary display is a 22" monitor, but is connected to a 37" tv too.
It's been getting worse with time, so I've given up and stopped using the PC totally until I get back from nurburgring and see where we stand in terms of which gpu to buy. (x2 should be out by then).
Guitar Hero 3 gives flashing textures at the bottom of the fretboard and Mass Effect runs hella slow on one 4870 in x64, cat 8.7. My rampage is being rma'd so I'm back on the 680i and single card.
Mass Effect runs brilliantly in xp though, dual boot system is the way to go.
Mass Effect runs brilliantly in xp though, dual boot system is the way to go.
Really close to doing this myself but i don't want to spend a dime more than i already have, that was the whole point in getting the 4870, it's affordable, no point in paying the postage to return it and then paying for a 280, which would be the replacement if i did it. I really do not feel good about AMD right now, extremely disappointed.
Well i got my 4870 from somewhere else, and they actually arrange a collection and cover the cost.. if the products faulty atleast, so i'm going to argue that it is as i cant use it because of drivers.
Somethings not right there... i can run it at 2560x1600 with 16xAF on Vista x64, when drivers aint crashing anyway.
Loadsamoney's quiet on the subject... oh wait he's just in the NVidia physx thread having another cheap shot at NVidia. 
From what I've been told this problem shouldn't exist and you shouldn't worry because ATI release new drivers all the time.
From what I've been told this problem shouldn't exist and you shouldn't worry because ATI release new drivers all the time.
Loadsamoney's quiet on the subject... oh wait he's just in the NVidia physx thread having another cheap shot at NVidia.
From what I've been told this problem shouldn't exist and you shouldn't worry because ATI release new drivers all the time.
No.....Loadsamoney never says problems shouldn't exist ...who told you problems shouldn't exist???? He states that ati endeavour to sort their problems on a monthly basis and no-one in their real mind would say that about ati..who has? Links please! And...if you did find that info from someone you bothered to pick up on it..geez
Al least they 'endeavour' to each month
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No.....Loadsamoney never says problems shouldn't exist ...who told you problems shouldn't exist???? He states that ati endeavour to sort their problems on a monthly basis and no-one in their real mind would say that about ati..who has? Links please! And...if you did find that info from someone you bothered to pick up on it..geez
Al least they 'endeavour' to each month
And obiviously suck at it each month, for all the AMD loving going around here i would expect this card to actually work, my screen just started flashing and now the contrast is screwing up.