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page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, recently installed video card is freezing delta force:black hawk down

I bought delta force:black hawk down(pc game) and it ran fine. Then i upgraded to an ati 9000 plus video card and now when you upload the game, the computer goes to the blue death screen and says that the file "ati3d2ag.d11" is causing the problem. I've reinstalled the game, reinstalled the video card drivers, search the ati's web page for new updates and still nothing. And the thing thats weird is, it will do it about 2/3 of the time, the other 1/3 it works great. Once its uploaded it will work fine everytime without fail. Thanks again for your time.
Kiger0183@msn.com

Jerry_Pang

i tried searching your problem and found out that
its a pagefault problem. (right?)
pagefault problems occurs if your computer is trying to access a reserve area in your memory
here's a similar problem with probable solution
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/6302/

furthur similar problem with problem description (with debug description)
http://pub40.ezboard.com/f3dxtremefrm23.showMessage?topicID=46.topic

Jerry_Pang

from http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/6302/
Seeing as how you have installed new hardware (your ATI video card) we have a culprit so we can diagnose the error based on that. The most likely cause of the error is an IRQ device conflict problem. Your video card is either reading or writing to reserved memory. To clear this up, make sure that the video card has its own IRQ and is not shared with any hardware.

If it isn't conflicting, then try finding out if ATI has any new drivers or patches.

by the way, what OS are you using? CPU? Video card?
run eventvwr.exe
see any errors in logs. does it say anything there?

kiger0183

ASKER

im running Win xp home edition, 1 ghz processor, 512 ram and ati 9000 pro

Jerry_Pang

i tried searching for similar problems.
i found lots of problems especially with GAMES(ALL GAMES that uses hardcode 3D)
it seems like there's really a problem with ATI 9000 PRO with XP.
im currently at ATI's Home page.
will try to look for possible workarounds for you.

Jerry_Pang

RADEON 9000 Series Game Issues
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon9000/radeon9000proissuesgames.html
(theres no black hawk down yet. - games like quake, morrowind, unreal, etc)
i think most games wont run with radeon... i remember i visited totalwar forum they said the Medieval Total war definitely wont run under Radeon. =(

RADEON 9000 Series Technical Issues
http://www.ati.com/support/products/pc/radeon9000/radeon9000proissues.html

I think this answers your question. (i guess you just bought the worst video card.. defenitely not for games)
OpenGL Based Application Causes an Access Violation error
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4084.html
OpenGL applications may exhibit Access Violation errors upon rendering a scene that consists of very long spline lines in a model or bitmap. This issue is not specific to ATI, and can occur on any graphics card under Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP.
This error occurs due to an inaccurate calculation of the coordinates for the long line.

Microsoft has released updates for Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP to correct difficulties rendering scenes within OpenGL based applications.

For further information on this issue and details how to obtain the appropriate update, please see the following Microsoft Knowledgebase articles,
"OpenGL-Based Program Causes Access Violation in Windows NT"
"OpenGL-Based Program Causes Access Violation in Windows 2000"
"OpenGL-Based Program Causes Access Violation in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q312505
- Microsoft solution to your problem. (download the latest service pack)

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