My 8510p locks up when playing! Artifacts as well.

As the topic implies, having serious issues when playing Team Fortress 2, the game locks after 10++ minutes of playing. It just locks up, everybody else are moving but I can't move. I also get a lot of weird coloured textures. Anyone have any ideas on how this may be solved?

Currently running a clean install of Vista Business

Latest ATI drivers (obtained from amd.com and modified)

Graphics card is HD2600

Latest BIOS as well

 

Check your temps, it seems like your gpu is overheating.

 

how do I read the temps, any good program suggestions?

 

Try rivatuner or atitool

 

You can run the Artifact test using Ati-tool

Also download HWmonitor (google it). This will show your current and maximum peak temps when gaming

 

max temp when playing games is around 65 C, this shouldn't be a problem should it?

 

65°C is ok. the 8600 m gt is sometimes going over 90°C from what i have heard.

Q: is this only happening when you are playing TF2 ? do other games lock up as well ? If that is not the case, maybe something is wrong with TF2, and maybe there is already a patch for it.

 

if there was a patch it would be automatically downloaded/installed through steam. Try deleting the game, then deleting steam and re-downloading TF2. Also install any windows updates.

 

question...is your card over clocked or not?

and are you using factory installed drivers?

and the infamous amd lock up problems....

 

i don't think the 8510p ships with AMD processors or does it?

 

Update the 8510p bios? I know that fixed lock-ups for a lot of people :\

 

I have the latest bios & the latest drivers from ati (not from HP, tried those and the game was really slow). Have tried re-installing TF2, but didn't change anything. I'm gonna do another reading on the temperature when I play later today, cause might have read of the wrong value. Will post it here afterwards!

 

Just played for around an hour, no lock ups but there was a moment where everything freezed. for the first time it didn't lock up tough.

Anyways, GPU temperatures around 60 C aren't that bad I guess.

The CPU get up to about 85 C, is this to much?

 

The CPU shouldn't be 85c. I'm thinking maybe you have them reversed, and the GPU is running at 85c and the CPU at 60c?

Those are roughly the temps I get when playing TF2 (GPU 80c, CPU 61c).

 

x2. make sur u are reading the right ones

 

Well, used HWMonitor, and it says the GPU is 65 and CPU is 85, but maybe the HWMonitor just doesn't identify correctly

 

Could try Everest Ultimate edition or Speedfan 4.34 beta (earlier versions don't read core2duo temperatures correctly)