Solved [1.08b] GPU freeze when zooming out to overview map

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I encountered a GPU freeze when zooming in and out from the map often.

The game freezes up for a few seconds, then VPU Recover from ATI says that the gfx card did no longer respond so it has been resetted.

Without VPU Recover, this would be a crash bug.

I am using Win XP 32bit SP3, gfx card ATI Radeon HD 3870 (Sapphire Ultimate Edition)

 

Save game: http://www.sendspace.com/file/u4il4t

DxDiag: http://www.sendspace.com/file/7fxuzb

VPU Recover binary crash log: http://www.sendspace.com/file/yzplks

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

didn't find the zip file, maybe because elemental did not really crash, instead the gpu freeze was catched by the ati tool

 

the problem can be reproduced

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Please post your debug.err file. This sounds like a failed driver reset (which the debug would note), which is possibly a result of driver bugs.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

somehow I read over the .err part in the "how to report" post :-|

well here is the file: http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=sPaUhSMa

driver version: catalyst 10.8

Thank you!

 

 

 

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

DebugMessage:  Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
DebugMessage:  Device lost
End of quote

Yep. Please try the 10.9 catalyst and see if that yields any improvement.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Problem was caused by buggy RAM, that was specified to run at 1600MHz. After reducing the mem speed the gfx freezes disappeared.