ATI Graphics Card Crash

[Jai Skorpio]

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please?

Every now and again, about every couple of matches (FM10), my screen freezes during the match (although the game carries on playing but I can't see it, just a frozen screen). After about 5-10 secs, it wipes blank, then the match comes back on. A yellow warning triangle then appears in my taskbar.

I have an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 and I have the Catalyst Control Centre installed for it, and the driver is the latest one.

Has anyone else experienced this? It's not a fatal error, but just very annoying! I'm not 100% it is my graphics card, but seems like it.

 

[Mike.]

sounds like a memory leak in fm. what patch are you using?

 

[Jai Skorpio]

10.3, the latest one

 

[Mike.]

bring up your task manager when fm is running to see how much memory its running

 

[Jai Skorpio]

I'm seeing CPU Usage between 7-10% and Physical Memory 74-76%.
I have 4GB total RAM, AMD Athlon Dual Core processors, Vista 32-bit.

 

[Zebedee]

Possibly an overheating graphics card? Check for dust inside your PC and the ventilation is working etc.

 

[Jai Skorpio]

I just did a bit of Googling, and found that the yellow triangle icon with an exclamation mark inside is from Device Manager saying something failed. So I went into it, show hidden devices, and found the culprit. Something called Rapportbuka - which I've now found is a system file used by my IObit systemcare cleaner which runs in the background (probably the smart defragger i used). I'll shut this down when I play then and see if it makes a difference.

 

[Zebedee]

Run a virus/malware scan just to be sure.

I'd also suggest running something like CCleaner to tidy up your registry.

edit: just odd that it only happens during FM as if it were regular, you'd know about it as it would be causing stuff every time that programme was running.
edit 2: if it still happens after virus scanning and tidying registry, try reinstalling the latest version of the programme you think it's related to.

 

[MCR_17]

change to Win 7
Vista sucks

edit: Only joking I love all OS, feel free to use vista for as long as you wish my old chum. :wub:

 

[Jai Skorpio]

Yeah I've done all that. IOBit's Advanced Systemcare Pro is one of the best around for registry cleaning, defragging and cleaning, I use it almost daily. I could try a reinstall.
Thanks for the suggestions guys