call of duty 2 crashes

jojothemonkey69 · 29 Nov 2006 at 20:42

hi as the title suggests, when i'm playing call of duty 2 after 5 mins the pc crashes. the monitor turns black and says no signal however the music continues to play. If I try to shoot as i would in the game there's nothing just music that sounds like background music.

specs
ATI x1950 pro 6.11 drivers
intel celeron 3.2 cpu
460 anatec psu
1.5 gig ram

patched the game to version 1.3 but still has issues.
this doesn't happen with other games like FEAR and battlefield 2.

can anyone help me?
Thanks :confused:

Hamoodii · 29 Nov 2006 at 22:24

this is a long shot, but in your display box have you unticked the box that says "hide modes that this monitor cannot display"

jojothemonkey69 · 30 Nov 2006 at 01:01

can't find that option but I haven't tinkered with anything. I think it may be a problem with the game as other games work fine. any other ideas???
thanks

willthepirate · 30 Nov 2006 at 12:12

drivers, always used to happen to me

running an x800 i just went back to the drivers that came with it, but since you're on a later card im not sure,

but it will be drivers yeah, or maybe some software thats running in the background

jojothemonkey69 · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:34

yeah maybe as the cards new call of duty doesn't support it yet. maybe they'll bring a new patch out. any other ideas??? All software running in background doesn't interrupt other games like far cry and battlefield 2.

Macabre · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:57

I think I had the same as you but it deleted/corrupted my whole operating system.

Was playing COD 2 on a server, then as im moving along it freezes I can't move but I still hear the sound, my keyboard locked up as I know because I press the capps button etc and the light doesn't turn on, also pressing like 4 keys down and not hearing the internal speaker.

So I turned it off and on and then it was all laggy on the desktop and it crashed to a bsod then turned off and on again and the operating system deleted/corrupted, recovered fine with a new OS install though.

RobertN · 1 Dec 2006 at 14:46

sounds like the x1950pro hardware bug have a look at the sapphire troubleshooting forums there are lots of threads there at first they were blaming the power supplies but they now think it is a heat problem with the
Voltage Regulation Modules (VRMs)

link

http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=4

was thinking about this card in two minds now

jojothemonkey69 · 1 Dec 2006 at 17:25

ok just a quick thought maybe my brand new PSU isn't up to scratch as the x1950 pro needs 30A does my akasa pax power have that

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-AK

if it doesn't could i return it to overclockers and buy an upgraded PSU that will have 30A

thanks

LoadsaMoney · 1 Dec 2006 at 20:48

That PSU is fine, 30a is way overkill, thats just an over estimation to cover themselves, im running my rig with an old GlobalWin SuperSilent 520w 1.3 version PSU, only has 1x 12v Rail at 20a, powers all my rig fine, and my x1800 XT uses more power than the x1950pro.

Trouble is theres only the 6.11's, or the drivers that came with the card that will work with these as being so new.

jojothemonkey69 · 1 Dec 2006 at 20:56

brilliant, so the general idea is to wait for 6.12's and hopefully these problems could have been reviewed and sorted out. After reading some threads on the sapphire forum it seems like this is happening to quite a few people.
thanks

CHUDS · 1 Dec 2006 at 21:12

is the cpu overheating?

jojothemonkey69 · 3 Dec 2006 at 00:25

sorted now, I think. used ATI tool tray to increase the cards fan speeds to 100% when it hits 70c.