Area 51 PC

[TippeX]

latest drivers, direct x etc?, if it isnt the overclocking then it sounds like a driver glitch, or the overclocking screwed the memory on the video card, but hopefully that didnt happen

[Gladjag]

Tested vid card and not affected by the overclocking since I used ATI tool to do it and safe guards in place to protect card.
I have downloaded latest ATI driver and installed it. Same result.
Directx 9.0c installed

PIV 2.2 Ghz 1 gig ram
so no probs with minimum requirments there.
Only prob is Vid and Midways states ATI 9500 and up. Played Far Cry on this card and no prbs and that game was heavy on Vid cards.

[BarryB]

Just try a couple of things:

1. Disable 'Fast Writes' either in BIOS or in ATI SmartGART options.
2. Drop RAM Speed in ATI tool by 10Mhz
These cured problems for me in some games.

[Gladjag]

Thanks BarryB
Tried yuor suggestions and no change. I even tried changing some configs in Vid setting I.E. 3D and OpenGL and same result.

I guess I will have to resign myself from playing this game.
Wish they would have put in some more detailled Vid adjustements in game set-up.

[DABhand]

Think of the possibility that the overclocking has done some damage to your card.

It doesnt matter if you used ATI's OC util or someone elses. As soon as you overclock a card over its max default it will start to degrade.

[TonyMacaroni]

I dont think the card was damaged by overclocking. If this happens, you usually wouldn't be able to play a game at all because the screen stays dark.
Simply wait till the next patch or Catalyst driver releases.

[BarryB]

There is an updated StarForce EXE/DLL to fix a crash bug with Intel onboard graphic chips, I know you don't have that but you could try it and see if it helps!

http://data.area51-game.com/pc_patches/A51_patch_us.exe