Videocard Problems

I bought a new videocard a few months back (ATI Radeon 9200), and I have no problem running a game like Half-Life 2, yet oddly enough I've run into problems playing a text-based Baseball manager sim (Out of the Park 6). Whenever I try to coach a game (instead of auto-simming it), my game crashes and I get this error message:

VPU Recover
VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands.

I never had this problem with my old videocard. And this is the only game I've had any problems with since I bought the new one. I've tried reinstalling the drivers, even reformatting my computer and starting from scratch, and the problem persists.

Anyone know anything about this?

Did you try updating the drivers?
Perhaps a SP2 conflict (assuming you're using WinXP)?

Did you try updating the drivers?
Perhaps a SP2 conflict (assuming you're using WinXP)?

Yeah, I tried updating the drivers.

SP2 conflict? What's that? And yes, I am using WinXP.

Yeah, I tried updating the drivers.

SP2 conflict? What's that? And yes, I am using WinXP.
SP2 = Service Pack 2

Service Pack 2 = latest critical-mega update/patch from Microsoft for Windows XP.

However, SP2 has been known to cause problems (surprise, surprise) with existing settings upon install.

I would assume that you haven't installed SP2, otherwise, well; you would know what SP2 was.

Two known solutions:

1.)turn VPU Recover off.

VPU Recover attempts to stop any sort of graphics-related crashes or freezes from completely locking up the PC. However VPU Recover has been known to increase the probability of problems and crashes itself when enabled.

2.) set your motherboard's AGP to 4x

Hope this helps.

SP2 = Service Pack 2

Service Pack 2 = latest critical-mega update/patch from Microsoft for Windows XP.

However, SP2 has been known to cause problems (surprise, surprise) with existing settings upon install.

I would assume that you haven't installed SP2, otherwise, well; you would know what SP2 was.

Two known solutions:

1.)turn VPU Recover off.

VPU Recover attempts to stop any sort of graphics-related crashes or freezes from completely locking up the PC. However VPU Recover has been known to increase the probability of problems and crashes itself when enabled.

2.) set your motherboard's AGP to 4x

Hope this helps.

Okay, I did that, and it seems to have done the trick. Thanks.

Though, what exactly did doing that actually do? Just wondering in case I run into problems with future applications or something. I'm not really as computer savvy as I like to think I am.