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[AlanC9]

 I haven't played NWN2 for maybe a couple of years now. When I tried to run the game this week I found that I can get maybe three minutes into the game before my vidcard throws some kind of fit. Repeated drops into VPU Recover, then either NWN2 crashes out or the machine locks up. Temperature reports are normal, and I haven't done anything to my rig in years except driver updates and installing DirectX 9.0c

Here's the stats:

Game Version: SoZ installed, 1.22Game Language: EnglishRetail or Digital: Retail DVDProcessor Manufacturer: AMDProcessor Type: Athlon 64 X2 3600+Processor Speed: 1.9 GHzOperating System: Windows XP/SP3System RAM: 2 gigsVideo Card Manufacturer: ATI (Sapphire)Video Card Model: Radeon x1650, PCI-EVideo Card RAM: 256 megsVideo Card Driver Version: Catalyst 10.2Sound Card: Realtek ALC861 (on mobo: BioStar TForce 550 SE)Sound Card Driver Version: 5.10.0.5233 DVD Type:IDEHard Drive Type: IDEFree Disk Space:  C:/16GBPower Supply: 500 W, 28A/12V

This thing should run NWN2 fine, and it used to do exactly that.

Any ideas?

[Gorath Alpha]

Something had to have changed. Do you allow Microsoft free reign to update what they want to, when they want to do so? I won't, so I can set a restore point before I pick and choose what I will accept.

Your driver is fairly new for a five year old video graphics card; are you sure you used that particular driver the last time NWN2 was running properly?

[Lance Botelle]

Hi AlanC9,

It may just be a coincidence.

I went to play NWN2 on an older PC that appears to be working fine on everything - except NWN2 when I went to play it again! The issue I believe is that NWN2 is quite graphics intensive, so if there is any slight problem with the VGA card, this game will reveal it (normally after a few minutes of play).

Do you have another game that is quite graphics intensive to test this? I noticed I had similar problems if I tried another graphics intensive game - yet my wife (who normally uses the computer) has had no problems with it for years.

In other words, the VGA card may be failing and NWN2 is revealing it. I had the same problem and have ended up replacing the card.

Lance.

Modifié par Lance Botelle, 09 juin 2011 - 02:45 .

[AlanC9]

Thanks, guys.

Gorath, you're right about the drivers -- I updated those for the later Bio games. Rolling back to Catalyst 8.3 produced better results, raising the mean time to failure to about five minutes. Which is still unacceptable, of course.

Lance, I think you're right about the card. Other games are artifacting up the wazoo now.Oddly enough, DA and ME still run about as well as they ever did, unless I'm suffering from boiling frog syndrome and can't perceive the difference

[Lance Botelle]

AlanC9 wrote...

Thanks, guys.

Gorath, you're right about the drivers -- I updated those for the later Bio games. Rolling back to Catalyst 8.3 produced better results, raising the mean time to failure to about five minutes. Which is still unacceptable, of course.

Lance, I think you're right about the card. Other games are artifacting up the wazoo now.Oddly enough, DA and ME still run about as well as they ever did, unless I'm suffering from boiling frog syndrome and can't perceive the difference

Hi AlanC9,

Almost certainly the card failing then. Either borrow (to test) another card (and reverse test your card in another computer if you can) or bite the bullet and buy a new VGA card.

Lance.

[Erple2]

Artifacting typically means that the card is overheating. Now determining why it's overheating can be any number of weird things, from dust accumulation, to the heatsink/fan combination is "loose", to the card is just plain dying.

Given that $100 these days buys you a laughably better card than the 1650XT you have in there right now, you might have to bite the bullet and splurge a bit. As for which card to get, that's a different topic.

[Eguintir Eligard]

A nvidia 240 is ample for nwn2 use seen them for $60 even in canada where competition is weak.

It would be the equiv of a 8800 or 9800 if you are looking at used options.

[ksbass]

My 240 is giving me all kinds of havoc with NWN2. I had to give up after video failures being almost minutely in Old Owl Well. I really wanted to try the campaign as a swashbuckler, but it appears NWN2 just doesn't really work with Nvidia cards anymore.