graphics card problem-game freeze

i've been having a problem with my warcraft III game freezing at certain "crowded" points in the game. I have a nvidia geforce3 ti 200 card which surpasses all of blizzard's game recommendations. even though we're equipped to run the game at average detail quality, i've even tried putting all the settings on low and it still messes up. the game freezes and the computer restarts and the windows error message blames our graphics card. is there a way to fix this problem?

thanks for any help,
sol

 

Hi Sol,

It may be the Video drivers are not working properly. First try running DirectX diagnostics, go to Start>Run and type dxdiag [enter]. Run the video tests. It may tell if there is a problem with the drivers. (Have you got a recent version of DirectX, I like version 8.1, if you have 9 see if there is an updated version).

nVidia drivers come with a "readme" on how to uninstall the old drivers and install new ones. It is best to work in Safe Mode and change the display to Standard VGA.


Hints here:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_installation_hints.html

nVidia's FAQ:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20011119_6325.html

Matt

 

thanks for the help. i'll try it out and hopefully something there will work.

later,
sol

 

hey, my brother told me that before i try what you suggested above, that i should ask about one more thing. he said the same problem was happening about a year ago and he did something in the BIOS that fixed it. just changed a number or something. do you have any idea what he may have done to fix it then so that we could try that too perhaps?

thanks,
sol

 

I had that problem once. Turns out my cards fan was fried and the card was overheating. Take a look and see if it's spinning like it should.

 

the card's fan is spinning just fine. i mean, i'd understand if it got hot and froze at varying points in the game, but it seems like i start the game and it freezes up only minutes into a game. i'm just not sure what's going on. if i can find the disk (not sure where my bro put it) i'll uninstall and re-install it. any other ideas?

thanks for all the help,
sol

 

I've noticed it's been a month now, and you haven't gotten too much help. So, here's a forum that's pretty active and might help.

Guru3d

As far as the bios settings your bro is talking about. I might have been the AGP Aperture Size. I've heard it should be 1/2 or a 1/4 of your available ram. I have mine set at 1/2.

I have 128mbs of ram, so it's set at 64.

Here's an article (last paragraph) that talks about it.

AGP Aperture

 

thanks breakout. i'll check out those links right away. thanks for all the help.
sol

 

Another BIOS setting you can check is that the AGP is set to 4X.

Make sure it is set to AGP and not PCI.

Matt