VPU resetting, Freezing/crashing ingame and out of game.

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I have an ATI Radeon X850 Pro graphics card, 768MB of ram, and a decent amount of harddrive space left as well as minimal fragmentation, and All updated drivers. What could be causing me to freeze up? A typical situation usually goes like this; I start the game up and play as normal. 5 mins later, I get steadily more lag, and finally disconnect, following an entire system freeze. -Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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You could be infected, probably.

Can you schedule a boot-time scan or do a thorough scan?

That’s the only advice I can give.

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To be sure you’re clean, I suggest:

  1. Disable System Restore and reenable it after step 3.
  2. Clean your temporary files.
  3. Schedule a boot time scanning with avast with archive scanning turned on. If avast does not detect it, you can try DrWeb CureIT! instead.
  4. Use SUPERantispyware, MBAM or Spyware Terminator to scan for spywares and trojans. If any infection is detected, better and safer is send the file to Quarantine than to simple delete than.
  5. Test your machine with anti-rootkit applications. I suggest avast! antirootkit or Trend Micro RootkitBuster.
  6. Make a HijackThis log to post here or, better, submit the RunScanner log to to on-line analysis.
  7. Immunize your system with SpywareBlaster or Windows Advanced Care.
  8. Check if you have insecure applications with Secunia Software Inspector.
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How long have you had your card? Has this been happening ever since you bought the card?

I ask because I had an X800 and had system freezes all the time and screen corruption. I found out that my card was one of the ones that had some bad mem chips from Samsung. Apparently quite a few cards had those bad chips installed at the time. Not sure if your card is one of them, but it is something to look into.

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Im gonna try a thorough scan right away. We’ll see if something turns up.

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Sounds more like an overheating problem to me (CPU, GPU, …)

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I thought that my X800 problem was a heat issue as well until I found an article about the bad Samsung mem chips that got shipped.

Another issue I had was driver problems. When upgrading I noticed the ATI uninstaller was leaving some fragments behind that would conflict with the new driver upgrades and cause the vpu recover to run or my system to crash.

Using a driver cleaner utility and then upgrading fixed that problem for me.

Are you seeing little white specs in dark spots in games? This I found to be because of faulty memory. If you aren’t then your memory is probably good.

I have usually encountered screen corruption such as strange polygon issues when the gpu core overheated followed by crashing.

I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the driver. Make sure the previous ones are fully uninstalled. You can find a few driver cleaners in google, but here is one that should work http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

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Another best drive cleaner is CCleaner (Select the “Slim” version).

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I’m not sure CCleaner checks for and cleans left over graphics driver files. Driver Cleaner specifically checks for nvidia and ati etc.

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There’s a big difference between a drivers cleaner and a Hard Drive cleaner.
CCleaner takes care of the latter. :slight_smile: