No longer responding to graphic driver commands

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Hi,
For sometime now i have been having a problem. everytime i run a game, 3-4 minutes after running it the screen goes black then it gets back on and i get an error saying "Vpu Recover has reset your graphic accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphic driver commands"(the screen goes black and back on something like 2-3 times before i get this error)
this happens when i play Gears of War and UFO Extraterrestrial. I dont seem to get it when i play CS 1.6 or heroes 3.
at the beginning i thought that this issue is related to my graphic drivers but the latest Ati update didnt seem to fix it...
i have redeon x1650 and i installed "8-4_xp32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_60999" patch.
i am using windows XP Pro SP 2
AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 2.01 GHz
2,00GB of ram
please help me...
Thanking you in anticipation
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
What drivers are you currently on? Have you tried falling back on the last set yet?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
atm i am using the latest by ati... 8.4 the i had this problem with the last drivers as well...
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi!
I have exactly some problem and exactly same video card.
I thought it was frying and googled the problem.. and here I am!
I only play Team Fortress 2 and since this is the most demanding game installed on my PC, I didn't bother checking whether I have the same problem with other games..
It usually takes me 20-30 mins to crash though. I also installed the latest drivers and it didn't help.
I started having this problem just a few days ago, and I didn't do anything major with my PC (any updates/upgrades), so I was thinking that the video card is simply dying..
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try the omega drivers WWW Link
I have an X1600 PCIE and the Omega's are MUCH better than the ATI drivers.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I would give the Omegas a try if you are having that much trouble. Has this happened with all games? Even the Stardock ones?
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I did indeed install Omega drivers a while back (before you guys mentioned it), but only tested it today - works like a charm. No problems! I also took my vid card and cleaned it of all the dust (my previous All-In-Wonder vid card simply died under the dust and had somewhat similar effects while gaming).
Here is the article that mentioned Omega drivers, it also has a lot of info if it doesn't fix the problem for you.
http://www.foxpop.com/imre/2005/vpurecover/vpurecover.html
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Good to know! Thanks very much for letting us know about the conflict. If you have any further troubles please let us know about them here or at support@stardock.com.