[1z4][Crash] GPU Crash during gameplay

Happened while trying to click the action tab while setting up a city

I am running Elemental Beta 1z4, and the game video crashed (causing a GPU recovery), then the game crashed about 30 seconds later. I am running Windows XP Home (32bit), with a Athlon X2 4200+ (S939), and a Radeon HD3850 256MB Video card, I am using the 10.3 drivers for my video card.

This crash happened while trying to click on the actions tab (first tab) while a town was selected in the cloth map mode.

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Just happened again. It seems to be random.

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Publius of NV

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Do you have the debug.err file, the dump (if one was produced) and a dxdiag report? Please see this thread for what the developers would like to see in bug reports.

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Not exactly the same thing, but I had lots of VPU-recovery graphics issues with Gal-Civ 2, an ATI 2600XT and the 9.late-in-the-year drivers. Fixed by reverting to some 8.early driver.

Seems old cards & new drivers don't mix as well as ATI wants us to think. Try going back to a 2008 driver and see what happens.

Am now on a 5670 with 10.4 drivers. No problem with Elemental, but I haven't re-tested GalCiv since the upgrade.

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