Getting cheesed off with it now, but still here we go.
Bought a Radeon X1950 Pro the other day, didn't feel comfortable with taking the GPU cooler of the X1800 XT as the last card I did that to I killed it.
Anyway put the new card in, windows booted up fine, I re-installed the ATI drivers, downloaded the latest Catalyst ones from ATI. I think my first misstake was not uninstalling the old ones first, but anyway got them installed rebooted and Windows was stable.
Decided to play HL2 Episode One, about 10 mins in, Windows crashes, well the game does, screen goes blank. Hit the reset button and try again same problem.
I then thought ok lets clean the drivers out totally so get hold of Driver Sweeper from guru 3d (Probably should have done this first) before running that I removed anything to do with ATI from add remove programs, then ran the sweeper.
Re-installed the ATI drivers after a few reboots, play EP1 again, same problem. Now thinking that it's an error with the ATI drivers themselves I go off and download moega drivers, after sweeping out and unistalling the ATI Drivers first.
With the omega drivers installed now, at least I don't get a hard lock up, but sadly when I try to load the saved game in EP1 it just crashes out to desktop.
Looking in last nights event log I've got this error message for EP1
Faulting application hl2.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module datacache.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x0000b423.
I'm hoping that this is just a problem with the drivers as they are by the looks of things in a right mess, will be very annoyed if it's hardware, not having much luck with PC's at the moment, am very tempted to just sell the whole lot off, get an xBox 360 and a decent Laptop and not bother with PC gaming anymore.
I plan this evening (when I get home from work) to do yet another clean install of Windows, but I'd sooner not if I can get away with it.


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