Momentary In Game Freezing

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Frank Jaerschky

I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past 9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing of up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL. I
have tried reinstalling the lates 3.9 drivers and the Omega drivers, too. I
have tried reverting back to 3.8 drivers as well. I have also tried
re-installing DirectX 9b, and the latest VIA 4 in 1 drivers. Any ideas as to
what could be causing this problem? Could the card be overheating? I haven't
checked to see if the card's fan is still spinning, but tht's my next step.
Maybe overheating? I just find it's strange that this would start suddenly
when I have made absolutely no changes or installed any new software.
System is an Athlon 2400XP, 512MB SDRAM, MSI K7T Turbo 2 M/B, and Windows XP
Home Edition.
Thanks for any suggestions.
 
Spyware would be the only thing that I could think of. Norton AV reports no
viruses. I'm using the onboard sound, which has caused no problems so far.
 
Frank Jaerschky said:
I have a Radeon 9500 Pro that has been working flawlessly for the past 9
months or so. A few days ago, I started to sporadic momentary freezing of up
to 1 second in duration when I'm playing games in Direct3D or open GL.
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I have a PVR Kyro card that did this before . The problem was a broken fan that
led to overheating. I bet yours isn't spinning anymore.

g'day
youth
 
For the spyware , get AdAware 6.0 its free and easy to used. Check the
DMA options for your drives.
 
Also a good idea to run Spybot Search and Destroy. Each one
(Spybot/Adaware) seems to catch things that the other doesn't, every once in
a while.

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Jim stood up at show-n-tell, in c8rCb.516875$HS4.3992867@attbi_s01, and
said:
 
I tried all the above suggestions, but no help. (Although I did find an
amazing amount of spyware that I didn't know about!) I'll give the fan a
check tommorrow.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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I tried all the above suggestions, but no help. (Although I did find an
amazing amount of spyware that I didn't know about!) I'll give the fan a
check tommorrow.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
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It could also be a driver issue. I noticed this problem when I went
from the 3.9s to 3.7 (to check for something completely different). I
noticed that the 3.7s were giving me momentary freezes in games. They
were always at the same time intervals.
So I went back to the 3.9s and everything was perfectly OK!

I see you have already tried 3.8 and 3.9 (which are quite similar). I
suggest giving the 3.7s a try, it can't hurt. Oh, make sure you
uninstall the 3.9 ones before installing 3.7.


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