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#1 skinnypete91
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Lots of good tips, thanks :) Have tried the CPU at stock speeds, no success (graphics card is stock) Fairly sure neither GPU or CPU are overheating BUT I am certain the X1950Pro is faulty - running that artifacts test causes serious artifacts, freezing and crashing. Gah, it works most of the time then fails when I need it the most! :( I will try a more thorough driver removal and reinstall, and try a reformat when I eventually get a new HDD. I will also try and cadge my friend's old X1950XT off him. Thanks a lot for the help guys, but it looks like this is impossible to resolve without me spending money. hmph.
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#2 skinnypete91
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Still can't get anything working :( Every crash seems to corrupt the display driver install, so I have to reinstall that and lose even more of my life. Any other ideas? If an OS reinstall is necessary then I'm ****ed for now.
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#3 skinnypete91
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Disable multicore rendering : to do this just bring up the console command and type "mat_queue_mode 0" without the "", have fun. Dante2710
No luck with this, yet. (4 attempts resulting in 4 freezes/crashes) Am currently installing latest graphics drivers, and will disable my firewall and AV (ZA and AVG) for the next. Really hope I don't have to reinstall windows, although it might be a good excuse to upgrade at last. :/ Thanks a lot guys :)
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#4 skinnypete91
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Hey all,
I would like some help.

Today I decided I fancied a Portal marathon, as I haven't played it in months and never got round to completing it etc.

But I can't get through 5 minutes without it freezing my computer, the screen going blank and the sounds looping. I have to hold the restart button for it to switch off, and it seems to be causing problems when booting also; when logging in the background shows for a while, with the icons loading eventually.

Despite it being a fresh install, I uninstalled Steam completely and tried again, installing most of the Orange Box.

And yet the problem persists, and the same thing happened when I attempted to play HL2. (I assume the rest of the games will do the same. I don't have/play many other games, but last time I tried BF2 it was fine, so (hopefully) it's just Valve games playing up.)

Any ideas what's going on/how I can fix it? I've already lost hours of fun!

Spec:
E2140 (@2.8G)
X1950Pro
4GB OCZ DDR2 1000
Windows XP

Thanks in advance.

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#5 skinnypete91
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It's only stupid because you are not used to it. Hence, you are stupid.
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#6 skinnypete91
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inb4 NHS criticisms.
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#7 skinnypete91
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i'd beat you up just for saying "lol jk"
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#8 skinnypete91
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I don't. A password take 3 seconds to type...would you risk defamation of character for three seconds of your life?FragStains
yes. i couldn't give a **** about "defamation of character" via myspace :|
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#9 skinnypete91
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not illegal, just very very boring.
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#10 skinnypete91
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glenn beck is right he is my hero