the topic pretty much describes whats happening. i will be playing PREY (which im borrowing from a friend for single player), and then the game will freeze while the sound continues to roll, and the game will act as though its about to BSOD due to a driver crash, but then vista recovers itself and i have to ctrl-alt-delete and use the keyboard to navigate to task manager to kill the game process. at first i thought it was a fluke, but its getting really annoying. im using the latest patch for the game (the first one didnt support 1650x1080 resolution to begin with).
this is on an HD2900PRO 1GB sapphire card with driver version 8.573.0.0, in 64bit vista. im not seeing this behavior in any other games (no issues in everquest2, halo 2, COD4) but im planning on reinstalling quake 4 and doom 3 to see if i can replicate the problem in other games on ID Tech4 engine, or if it's specific to this game. i would prefer to identify the problem before trying a graphics driver update, since im not having issues in any other games, plus PREY is a much older game, and the 2900PRO should surely have mature drivers by now
this is on an HD2900PRO 1GB sapphire card with driver version 8.573.0.0, in 64bit vista. im not seeing this behavior in any other games (no issues in everquest2, halo 2, COD4) but im planning on reinstalling quake 4 and doom 3 to see if i can replicate the problem in other games on ID Tech4 engine, or if it's specific to this game. i would prefer to identify the problem before trying a graphics driver update, since im not having issues in any other games, plus PREY is a much older game, and the 2900PRO should surely have mature drivers by now