AusGateKeeper

Hey all, after about 4 hrs of sourcing around i still havent found the a solution as to why my vid card/game locks up, i load Battlefield 2 settings are all on medium, and within 5 mins of gameplay the game locks up, and its rather hard to get back to windows, but not impossible. Ive checked that the vid card isnt overheating, i managed to get bf2 2 load in windowed format, so that i could monitor the cards temp, *complements of nvidia software* and its not getting above 80 degrees, with 140+ being threshold. Ive contemplated that the pwr supply might be the drama, but come to the conclusion that its doubtfull. ive managed to get directx 9.0c installed on sp2, and thats working fine, ive even tried downloading all vid card drivers from 71.89 till the beta 77.XX but they seem to cause more drama than good "im removing the drivers in safe mode to ensure all appropriate files are removed and arent in use". atm im running the 71.89 drivers, and they seem to allow the game to run for upto 30odd minutes at a time "if im lucky". im currenrly running a P4 2.6gug, Gigabyte GA-8PIE1000 mboard, 4x 256ddr 400mhz @ duel channel, XpertVision 6600GT 128m and sata 200g hdd. on xp sp2. Guys IM LOST as to what this is gonna be and im beginnning to regret purchasing this video card. it had awesome cred. but im starting to beleive all the forums im not starting to see pop up about how shithouse this vid card really is. Whats caught my attention as well, it doenst seem to me like NVIDIA has come to the party on this either. most forums that ive seen including nvidia's site, dont have a responce from the company and or a reasonable answer. Im writting tonight in this forum for results, if ur going to repeat the same crap that ive gone on about tonight, please dont, im seriously in need of help, I just cant think of anything else its gonna be. Cheers GK™

New Pwr supply, and BOBS YA UNCLE.. not a glitch at all, also bought new case + 2 gig of ram, so... i guess its all contributing to it now, but its a 450watt, and it seems to be holding up fine, even overclocking the card now, and not a prob. running gpu @600mhz, and ram at 1.13ghz, not overally hot due to the 2 cooling fans now directed onto the card. Thanks Spleen for your help mate, TRULY appreciated. GK™

Elvis, I live with 2 other people with the same cards, and they run with temps of excess of 80+ and their card isnt doing what mine is, and thats with only 2 fans running inside case + gpu fan. Im running,2 additional fans alongside the cpu and gpu fans, im guessing that there is sufficent circulation to keep temps down. Spleen, im heading out tomoz to get a 500watt pwr supply, *thought i might as well go the whole hog and get the better one ut there* that way i know that i can rule the pwr supply out of the picture if it continues to freeze. as u said, i can run every other game except BF2.... Thanks guys GK™

Awesome, 2 days and not one responce. GK™