[iroc409]

just curious. i've been getting some new errors lately with video. i reinstalled bf1942 the other day for a change of pace. it is having a _ton_ of issues. sometimes i'm getting "artifacts" or what-not where terrain and items just dissappear at certain angles. and it dies a lot.

finally the other day the game crashed and a little ati box came up and said "vpu reset because it no longer responded blah blah". never had that before, but just a few minutes ago i was playing some dod, and dod crashed again (as per usual). anyways, i got the ati error box thingie, which has never happened with dod. it usually just crashes (this time it didn't).

i'm starting to wonder if maybe my video card isn't at fault due to all these video errors. but, then i think maybe if the northbridge (that's the thingie that runs the memory.. right?) is faulty, it could cause the card not to respond through the mainboard, and the video drivers think the card is at fault.

i guess the main question is, is it possible to get memory errors in windows (page fault errors, that kinda thing) from the video card (or the video memory), or is that specific to the system memory?

i'm assuming the northbridge controls the system bus, but i figured i'd ask you folks.