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Personally I had no problem at all giving Valve some hard-earned for that epic game. Bring on the flood of mods and official expansions!

Good idea steve, screenshots should help ;D

Definately sounds like you've got crook video memory, or perhaps another related component on the card, if it's still under warrantee, take it back for a new one If you want to convince yourself, maybe borrow a friends' card?

Looks to me like it might be your video memory playing up. You haven't tried to overclock it lately have you? This will be caused by a video card failing to respond, overheating and dieing out. I guess you're running the catalyst drivers, with catalyst control center; if so, disable overdrive (overclocks ATI cards automatically, clock speeds are set in direct proportion to heat) If overdrive isn't enabled, I'd be checking the card to make sure the fan is working, and also making sure the case had sufficient ventillation. (a good ventillation test is to remove the side cover, and see if the problem persists. [provided your gpu fan is working])

Hey guys I'm new to forums so go easy on me here's the deal: I have an XP2700+, GA7N400L (nforce2) motherboard, 512mb of ddr400, running windows xp pro with sp2. I'm trying to install the drivers for my soundblaster audigy 2 value. The card itself works fine, but I'm left high and dry with no extra software, trying to run the programs included (such as "surround mixer" ) causes errors along the lines of "cannot find xxx.xxx please reinstall application". Here's the twist, my older pc, a celeron 466, SR440BX motherboard (intel chipset), and 192mb of ram, also running win xp pro sp2 will install, and run everything perfectly. I've tried everything on this machine, but nothing seems to work, I even mapped the cdrom on the older pc as a network drive and tried to install from that but still got the same problem. I've been on the phone daily to creative's less-than-average tech support team, who seem to only know how to "uninstall, and re-install" or "change pci slots". I've tried every single slot. I'm sure this is going to boil down to a registry problem, or perhaps a problem with my os (never seen anything like it on this install before) So guys, I'm asking a huge favour, rack your brains, please give me some more things to try If needed I can supply dxdiag files, etc. Thanks!

Problem still not solved, same errors every time. example: "Surround Mixer ( mxmgr.mxc ) - Unable to load needed components, please reinstall the application" Also during the installation of mediasource, it will get to 10% and then say "medisasource was not found, please install mediasource and rerun this application" I had a problem a while ago, some kind of conflict with a securom 2 protected cd, where some registry value which I can't remember was set to the wrong value, and windows wouldn't let securom indentify the cd. Caused all kinds of similar problems. Though I have no idea what I did to fix it Anything else? ( I'm actually a techie myself, just so you guys know )