NF vpu recovery problem

[Yeke]

Had this problem since release of DR (coincided with an upgrade of my mb) basically I cant play in NF at first I thought it was a duel log thing so leeched some buffs and went out, same thing happened on inc i'd get choppyness then a vpu recovery ok so I changed drivers etc same thing.

Next I thought it was possably a hard drive problem so bought a new one... no help :/

Why am I posting now.... Well I assumed since it happens on inc mostly that it had something to do with loading enemy players textures etc, but today I played in thid for 4 hours and had no problem got pretty zergy at one point too.

So just wondering if anyone has any theory's I just can't pin this problem down I'm upgrading the gfx card soon in the hope I'll be able to RvR again but now I'm not so sure thats the problem.

Specs

AMD 64 3200 +
1gig random named RAM (tested)
maxtor 250 gig HD
asrock duel pci/agp 939 motherboard
9700 pro agp gfx card
550w psu (some no name thing but the rails are steady not much demand on it)

./confused

 

[Yeke]

Ok its been a little while since I tried playing in NF so with thid working for me I decided to try it again I wont mention the fact I'm so out of practice the two fight's I got I got destroyed and played like a nob, but the vpu thing didn't happen \o/ what did happen is when I released or ported after dying the whole damn pc locked up :<

I'm on adsl so no NIC card with checksum thing tried looking on modem and no checksum option there either what happens is it loads the area but then it wont draw the keep/people there just sea and lock's up :<

Gonna install DR client later and try that as some people say it runs better anyone have any other suggestions of things I can try?

 

[Theo]

To disable Checksum:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Properties
3. Hardware
4. Device Manager
5. Look in Network adapters
6. Right click the device and go to properties
7. Click Advanced
8. Select Checksum offload and set it to disable

 

[Yeke]

To disable Checksum:

1. Right click My Computer
2. Properties
3. Hardware
4. Device Manager
5. Look in Network adapters
6. Right click the device and go to properties
7. Click Advanced
8. Select Checksum offload and set it to disable

Only thing listed for my adsl modem onthat tab is "framing"
the onboard NIC card is disabled and not in use.

Think this is a gfx card related problem rather than this tho.

 

[Hollomere]

I had exactly the same problem with my Radeon 9700 Pro throwing VPU errors in random places around DAOC

Ran fine most of the time then suddenly.... BSOD ..... restart the PC and it was fine again for another couple of hours.

I ended up changing my Video card soon after that and since then (to a Radeon X1600 256MB) and no VPU problems whatsoever.

 

[Muylaetrix]

ati 9x00 cards had/have some issues with DR/cata client.

some thread somewhere about donwgrading drivers to a version somewhere that bring improvement.

seems to have improved with last patch though.

 

[Konah]

whats this checksum disable thing about?

i run a 9800pro and i've never had any problems at all with DR/Cata, but i use classic models (ofc).

 

[Konah]

have u tried turning off VPU recover? i always do when i install new drivers.

 

[Gamah]

Does vpu recover cause crashes then?

 

[Rep]

ugh i had this problem exclusivley with several different radeon cards, down to the point where it crashed my comp within 10mins of logging on. turned vpu recover off as one of the first things i did. spent many a night surfing random googled forums looking for an answer, found many, tried many.

best solution imo? buy a geforce.

 

[Yeke]

best solution imo? buy a geforce.

Actually what I'm considering doing, have tried all the cat drivers back up to 5.2 or 5.5 whichever it was that was recomended also omega drivers but no improvement the drivers that were recomended were actually terrible on my pc and would lock up very quickly after loading any relativly new game.

I hear you on the nights wasted googling random sites to so called "certain fix's" that never work.

Turning off vpu recovery afaik would just make your pc instantly reboot on errors instead.

pretty dissapointed in ati's drivers of late always seems to be problems with certain games having not used nvida for a long time can anyone tell me if they fare any better on this front?

 

[Battleboobs]

try some modified drivers they could help u i think