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From: Steve Molander
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:38

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Well, last night played a skirmish and the number of screen freezes was
absolutely unacceptable.  Even opened another game and found the graphics to
suck.

Today to opened the box and found my graphics card running hotter than a
pistol!!!  I mentioned in an earlier post that I received a "component
failure" error once while running Generals.  Looks like my board probably
overheated during an earlier game.  Generals probably taxes the graphics
such that once I start playing (very little freezing) it heats up to the
point it fails (constant freezing).

I left the side cover off the box and placed a small fan to blow on the
boards and played a Zero Hour game with nary a pause!

So, it looks my problem was hardware related.  Time to go shopping for a new
ATI card!

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