System crash while playing Games using 3d acc.

[MysticKnight 0]

Hi,

 

I have some probs with playing games under Win2K, every time I start a game that uses Direct3D or OpenGL the system compeltly crashs after some time (around 10 - 30mins), when the card is running in 2D (eg normal use) it runs smooth with anyproblems, I tryed severl drivers (ELSA drivers, Reference driver 6.31, 6.47, 7.17) with DirectX 8 and DirectX8a

 

maybe some one know a solution.

 

My Data:

 

Windows 2k German v. SP 1

example Game: Quake 3 (1.27)

 

Athlon 550

Gigabyte Motherboard

128 MB SD-RAM

Elsa Erazor III Ultra (TNT2 PRO)

a old Creative AWE 64 (ISA)

USB Mouse (Microsoft Explorer)

standart Keyboard

 

think that were the most importand info.

 

Thanx for you help

 

MysticKnight

[MysticKnight 0]

hmm I seemed to have found the answer

 

I applyed the athlon win2k patch after that no crashs (3 hrs of testing )

 

http://www.amd.com/products/cpg/athlon-duron/amd_win2k_patch.html

 

just for completion maybe someone has the same prob.

 

cya

MysticKnight

[Brian Frank 0]

Yup, Thats what you gotta do for AMD procs under Win2k.