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Article #27030Re: Performance Issues resolved
From: Drinkenstein
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:55
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:55
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If you find a card that will work without out leaving the case open and a fan blowing let me know cause I'll sure go out and get one myself -- The Anonymous Alcoholic! Drink 24:7 Copyright ę 2003 Drinkenstein "Steve Molander" <steve@stevemolander.com> wrote in message news:10090ckskkdj120@corp.supernews.com... > 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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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!128.32.206.55!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Drinkenstein" <vodka@beer.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer Subject: Re: Performance Issues resolved Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:55:10 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <100at47gjs4aa4f@corp.supernews.com> References: <10090ckskkdj120@corp.supernews.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 32 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit