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legacy-fadedace
05-19-2004, 03:28 AM
Hi,

Thought someone else might benefit from this as well. I have an older system, nVidia GeForce3 Ti200, AMD1800+, Asus A7V266-E mainboard, and Win2K. I was able to play most UT maps just fine, and passed 24 hours of stress with Prime95. Running 3DMark03 (free version) crashed my box at test 3. I also noticed that AS-FallenCity would crash the box at load time, and AS-RobotFactory would crash the box when the "main gate" objective was reached.
I emailed Atari tech support (who got back to me within 24 hours - impressive) and they suggested updating my VIA 4in1 drivers, among other things. Voila! That was it - and I had forgotten that the 4in1 drivers even existed.

So... if your system has a VIA chipset and you're having problems, it's one more thing to try... http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=300

Regards,
FadedAce