Quake 3 isn't going to stress a modern card particularly well? I'd have thought Far Cry 2's benchmark would have been a better stress test.
On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:03, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: > Will Quake 3 run in a continuous loop? I've run both demos several times at > the high res with all features on. No problems. New vidcard installed. > > Frankly, I've been using eqiupment for a while with zero problems. The > problems started with the first Radeon. So far, over a short span, this card > seems to be fine. > > On 3/15/2010 12:23 PM, Robert Martin Jr. wrote: >> If you can't narrow this down to driver issue, my first thought would be >> power supply going south. I've seen similar issues when the power supply >> isn't providing quite enough power to the system. Video card could be iffy >> or even mainboard. As for video stress test I still use a quake3 demo loop >> although I'm sure there are much better tests available. >> >> lopaka >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Anthony Q. Martin<amar...@charter.net> >> To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com >> Sent: Mon, March 15, 2010 6:35:17 AM >> Subject: [H] Testing Graphic Card Stability >> >> Ok.... >> >> I had a HIS ATI Radeon HD 5770 in this system. Tried all drivers available, >> using driver cleaner to remove previous drivers, etc, yet the same result >> persisted: Crashing.. Yesterday, my PC reboot several times during the day. >> On some days, it doesn't do that. >> >> I just loaded in A Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 in thsi system. While these cards >> are basically the same, performance wise, they boards are different as this >> one has to DVI ports on it while the other other only had one. Thus, the >> layouts of the boards are very different (I didn't want to risk getting the >> exact same board for fear of some fundamental problem in the board design >> from HIS or ATI). >> >> So far, and not much time has gone by since I just installed this board a >> couple of hours ago, things seem to be working. WEI works as done some >> program I got called Performance Test. >> >> My question is what software can I use the drive this video card in a loop >> to see if it really works or not? Or, am I going to have to see here and >> wait for a crash? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 9.0.790 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2748 - Release Date: 03/15/10 >> 03:33:00 >> >>
