Hey Guys, I've recently upgraded to an XFX GeForce 6800 GT from my previous card, a GeForce FX 5200. Since having done so, I'm having problems playing games.
When starting Doom3 in "Ultra high" or "high" quality mode, the game locks up either seconds, or minutes, after the game begins. The whole system freezes, neither CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE nor anything else works. Starting doom in "medium" quality mode seems to stop the problem from happening, although I haven't played the game for longer then 30mins. When starting Half Life 2, the game freezes a few seconds after the menu is displayed. With Counterstrike: Source, the game loads a map, then sends me back to the desktop. Here's some information you may need: Gentoo running amd64 on AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Socket 939) XFX GeForce 6800 GT (AGP) 1.5GB DDR RAM cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Enabled Kernel: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 nvidia-kernel: 1.0.7676 nvidia-glx: 1.0.7676-r2 I've also used nvidia-settings to check the card temperature. 15mins after boot, nvidia-settings reports: Core Temperature: 44C Ambient Temperature: 36C I've searched through the Gentoo forums for similar problems, and this has been reported one or two times, none of these people found a solution (or posted about it). I looked on my motherboard for capacitor decay (as described in another post) and haven't found any. I also don't have X Composite extensions enabled. Whenever the PC crashes, I can see the following in /var/log/messages (I have to SSH to do this, the machine is too frozen to launch a terminal locally) Nov 3 22:05:06 silver NVRM: Xid: 25, L0 -> L0 Nov 3 22:05:06 silver NVRM: Xid: 6, PE0000 1f08 00000000 00000000 00f1efeb 00000000 Nov 3 22:05:09 silver NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020 Nov 3 22:05:17 silver NVRM: Xid: 8, Channel 00000020 etc... I've installed Windows on this machine and a few games just to test - everything worked fine, so it can't be a hardware problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Keith Vassallo Registered GNU/Linux User #290991 http://www.keithvassallo.net
