Fix for Half Life 2 & Radeon VPU Recover / Crash / Lock up...

Hi All,
Just a heads up to a fix for anyone with a Radeon who is suffering from VPU crashes in Half Life 2. From what I can gather, I think that this can occur with a number of different boards and some Nvidia users have also suffered from this... Although they just get a lock-up or a BSOD...
SYMPTOM: Half Life 2 (and CS:S) will lock up anywhere from 1 second to 30 minutes in to a game. The sound will loop continuously and, if you have VPU Recover enabled, you can ALT-TAB to Windows whereupon you will see a dialogue from VPU Recover asking whether you want to send a bug report to ATI.
Other games will run fine.
After searching around a bit, updating drivers, checking temps, running Memtest etc, etc, I have found that the following workaround will address this issue:
1) Set AGP to 4x in BIOS,
2) Disable Fast Writes.
Hope this helps any one else suffering from this issue. This was occuring with Catalyst Drivers 4.12 & 5.1...
Regards,
fM

hi Jazza!
the best explanation for this that i've seen is that there can be power drain problems in USB 2.0. drop below 500 mA running through the port and everything goes to pot. this may well explain why switching back to USB 1.1 sometimes works like a charm, and also explains why it's important to have the ipod plugged into a high powered USB port rather than a low power port.
i've seen a confirmed case of a USB connection going west after a scanner got plugged into the beast in question ... periodically i see other reports along these lines, too.
Roger Whiteley, "USB Device Not Recognized" #16, 04:18am Aug 3, 2005 CDT
love, b

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