System enquiry

[Erozubx]

Erm Having problems Running Cata/ToA/SI clients in RvR.. MY pc lags crazy even when set on lowest gfx details for best frame rate. Also on all these clients my PC restarts itself when proting to keeps.

My PC spec is
AMD Athlong 64 HT 3500+
1GB PC3200 DDR ram
Geoforce 4 ATI 4600 128mb Gfx

Any reason y it would be doing this? or any one else experienced same probs?..
Thanks

 

[Ryuno]

Well Techincal Help forum would be a good start.

There is actually a stick thread there which might solve your porting restart problems, and thats where Tech help is funnily enough

 

[Erozubx]

Sorri im half awake today dnt lwk v hard, thanks alot

 

[Erozubx]

o ai cheers

 

[Tualatin]

Think it's ur 3d card tho..

never seen a Geforce Ati 4.. may not be supported

On a serieus note, update ur NVidia drivers lol, it would be so stupid if you had ATI drivers installed

www.nvidia.com


Also, you can get memtest (g00gle) to see if ur memory has some issues, and get Everest Home Edition (g00gle) to see some PC info.. check your temps and power supply

 

[Flimgoblin]

it's a geoforce!

is it an ATI Radeon or an NVIDIA Geforce card?

Either way - find out which and upgrade your drivers

 

[Listerine]

Ok ive got the spec wrong.
Its a..
AMD Athlon 64HT 3500+
1gb PC3200 DDR SDram
GeForce 4 Ti4600

I am Running 54Mbps Wireless network
( Me as the reciever from the Modem ). nt the domain user

Problems are:
Restarting computer when port to Keeps.
When running around RvR PC restarts

Could this be because of the GFX card getting to hot?
I mean it already has 3 fans in the compter and one for the CPU...

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[Erozubx]

Doh this is Erozubx btw arevade left his details on remember password lol.. i kno him irl so dw

 

[Ryuno]

The PC restarting is actually windows restarting. It restarts on a fatal error by default, instead of showing you a BSOD with some vage error details.

To change this do the follow (don't worry this wont dmg your pc in anyway). heh take the word of a random stranger. anyway

Right click my computer, Properties. I cant remember of the top of my head as this machine is 2k (at work atm), but there should be an advanced tab. What your looking for is a button that says something like Startup and Recovery.

In there you should see some options relating to system failure.
Write an event to the system log
Send an administratuve alert
Automatically reboot

untick Automatically reboot, then click ok. Now next time there is a fatal error, instead of rebooting, you should see a blue screen with some error info. its normally pretty vague, but can give you clues to what the problem is.

 

[Erozubx]

Ryt blue screen appears nw with error msg Bad_pool_header.... This is because of Netgear products, does any one else run Netgear Wireless on there comp? simply updating the drivers doesn't help so gettin wel confused :S

 

[DocWolfe]

lol AMD64HT...? AMDs dont have hyper threading. His computer is more likely got a virus or some serious spyware...

 

[Belgerath]

I had this problem here is the Fix
http://support.darkageofcamelot.com/kb/article.php?id=345
Also make sure you network card isnt set to turn off when inactive it will be in the same area as this fix hope it helps

 

[Erozubx]

Ok i have opened That link but it sez 'Under the advanced TAB under MEDIA TYPE' on my computer there is no such thing... is this cos ive got sp2 or somthing?

 

[Gamah]

I want an Athlong, lasts 50% longer than my Athlon.

 

[Erozubx]

funny m8, There must be som1 who uses NETGEAR wireless to play daoc ?:S

 

[Ryuno]

The half duplex doesnt effect Wireless cards. Its a setting related to a cable/hard connection. Wireless works differently unfortunaly.

At least you know what is causing the problem now. Maybe it is worth buying a new wireless card? You can get a new one for about 15-20 pounds in the uk.

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

lol AMD64HT...? AMDs dont have hyper threading. His computer is more likely got a virus or some serious spyware...

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2353,00.html

 

[confused]

1gb PC3200 DDR SDram

which is it sd ram or ddr?

 

[Ryuno]

which is it sd ram or ddr?

What most people call DDR ram, IS DDR SDRAM. The names just been shortned.

 

[Hawkwind]

which is it sd ram or ddr?

http://http://www.pcguide.com/ref/ram/tech_SDRAM.htm

 

[Erozubx]

Ok well ive done evrything ive been reconmended to do, wa about the multiplier settings , perhaps it would be better to lower it to make my system more stable?

 

[Erozubx]

O and the Blue Screen of death error msg is
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

 

[MaCaBr3]

Geforce TI 4600 is where your problem is. It's pretty old (2 years) and doesn't perform well enough anymore for recent games.

Your systems is nice, but buy a new gfx card.

 

[Erozubx]

ah :< lol ok will do then , until ive saved would ToA client be able to run ? if on lowest gfx

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Geforce TI 4600 is where your problem is. It's pretty old (2 years) and doesn't perform well enough anymore for recent games.

Your systems is nice, but buy a new gfx card.

I'm sorry to say but that's utter balls. GeForce 4 Ti 4600 may be not no state of the art and it may not be that fast as newer generation card but it is within the min req's of catacombs and more even it will not make your pc crash.

It is probably just a wrongly installed chipset drivers and graphics drivers...

 

[Erozubx]

Ive got rig drivers from Nvid site n got latest mobo drivers. How do i resolve a IRQ Component clash ?.. This happend with my old system , it was a
AMD Duron 800mhz
512SD ram
The Ti4600 gfx card

kept on gettin blue screens then btu thaught its only slow PC..
Only thing ive kept from old PC is HDD and Gfx card. This nvr happended to me b4 i even used to duel log on me old comp in ToA..

bin buggin me for couple weekes nw this and still can't fix it. Its stoppin me from going into RvR.:<

 

[MaCaBr3]

I'm sorry to say but that's utter balls. GeForce 4 Ti 4600 may be not no state of the art and it may not be that fast as newer generation card but it is within the min req's of catacombs and more even it will not make your pc crash.

It is probably just a wrongly installed chipset drivers and graphics drivers...

Having a overheated card will make ur pc crash.

 

[Erozubx]

ok wel now my pc has a liquid cooling system and 3 fans inside the case + one on the GFX card.

The PF usage of memory was exceeding 1gb so am i rig in saying it goes to 'virtual memory' and maybe thats y it crashes? ive orderd anotehr 1gb ram today so hope ive done right thing

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Having a overheated card will make ur pc crash.

Running a heavy game on a gfx card will either work or not. Won't overheat your gfx card, won't crash your pc.
If your card overheats there's a different problem.
By the way... I've seen people with lesser cards play this game.


Please, get your facts together before giving flawed advice...

 

[Cwini]

O and the Blue Screen of death error msg is
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Quote the whole message please - I have seen that message before but can't remember where sorry - the rest of the message may help.

Also, I had problems with wireless and BF2 & DAoC.

Only solution I had was to drop the wireless part and physically wire it.

Damn annoying .. but no more lagg.