I am playing Far Cry on my VAIO and I have experienced occasional crashes. I have installed the Radeon OMEGA drivers and it comes with a utility called VPU Recover that detects crashes from the graphics card.
Apparently, what happens is that my graphic card crashes when I play Far Cry, according to VPU Recover. The game freezes for about half a minute and then an error dialog box is displayed, saying that VPU Recover has reset my graphics card since it crashed.
This is odd since I haven't overclocked it or anything. I am thinking that I might have a defect piece of hardware here. What do you think?
I am however sorry to report that my particular problem does *not* seem to be caused by the OMEGA drivers, nor by Far Cry, but simply by heat. I've come to experienced problems with the original ATi drivers that comes preinstalled when playing games like Command & Conquer: Generals.
After about an hour, the graphics card intends to crash. At this point, the computer is quite hot and restarting the computer and directly relaunching the game makes the computer crash again. It seems it has to cool down before I can play again.
This to me is not OK. It shouldn't crash no matter how I use it - at least not due to hardware or heat. Buggy software is alright, but I hate hardware failures.
So my question is, is my computer defective or is heat a known issue? It has to be fixed somehow cause I really need this machine for playing games and editing video and I haven't paid this much for a luxury computer that bails out on such things as this.
