far cry and my monitor

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when i play far cry everything is going fine untill my
monitor goes into sleep mode and wont come out i have to
reset my system.i have the patch and the latest drivers
for my card its a radeon 9800 pro this occurs no matter
what settings i have on my display its a nightmare help
someone please i have also set my power options to never
turn off.
 
paul said:
when i play far cry everything is going fine untill my
monitor goes into sleep mode and wont come out i have to
reset my system.i have the patch and the latest drivers
for my card its a radeon 9800 pro this occurs no matter
what settings i have on my display its a nightmare help
someone please i have also set my power options to never
turn off.#
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Hi.

Does it go into sleep mode as soon as it gets into the gameplay?

If so it could be trying to use an unsupported "refresh rate", I don't have
Far Cry so I've no idea if it's got an option for it in the settings or not
have a look. 60Hz would be the safest option to try it in. Failing that
try it in a lower resolution too.

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yeah it set at 60 hz on my card and even on 800= 600 it
still does this
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Is the computer still running (does numlock and the other lights work on
your keyboard, do you get HDD activity when you enter CTRL+ALT+DEL for
example?) and the just monitor going to sleep mode?

Do you have any other really heavy graphics apps like Far Cry? Halo for
example?

Have you overclocked your card?

I think I'm leaning over to hardware/cooling/power problem at the moment.
Try cooling your case down a bit (take the side off) and playing, relaxing
memory timings on the card and motherboard.

How many watts is your PSU? Does your monitor go straight into the mains or
via the PSU?

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.
http://www.smirnov.demon.co.uk/
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no im locked out of my keyboard or so it seems my hd
doesnt seem to be doing anything the biggest other game i
have is probably painkiller
 
paul said:
no im locked out of my keyboard or so it seems my hd
doesnt seem to be doing anything the biggest other game i
have is probably painkiller
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Try reducing the level of detail to the lowest it will go and take the side
of your case off, if you've got any temperature monitoring software put it
on and watch your temps.

Also in the AGP drivers lower the AGP speed and turn Fast Write off (under
the SMARTGART tab). If there's an option to disable sound try that as well
(check in the readme file sometimes there's a command to start the program
with to disable it).

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
http://windows.dasmirnov.net/ Windows XP Resource Site.
http://www.smirnov.demon.co.uk/
http://www.doom3portal.com/ A Doom 3 fansite.

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i have no temp monitoring stuff by my temps dont feel to
bad and i can play other games for hours
 
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