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#1 Jan 26 2006 at 1:56 AM Rating: Decent
While playing EQ 2, quite often i get an Error that says ATI VPU Recover has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands. Sometimes if will just freeze for 10 secs then start working again and sometimes the Monitor will shut off and sometimes i'll have to restart my comp. My Video Card is 128 MB ATI Radeon X600 SE, if anyone can help, would be much appreciated <3
#2 Jan 29 2006 at 12:07 AM Rating: Decent
Were having the same exact problem. Just did a complete uninstall of the ATI drivers using the uninstaller / control panel. There are also some registry keys you should probably delete, but as I can't find the link the to site that showed them, I can't provide them. Sorry, you may be able to get by with just the unistaller though.

Here is the link to the uninstaller though.
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/DLRedirect.asp?fileIDExt=050553d40196ef109fff37cbb40aaf28&accountID=737&deptID=894

Edited, Sun Jan 29 00:08:13 2006 by Sweedie
#3 Jan 29 2006 at 7:44 AM Rating: Good
I began having this same problem IMMEDIATELY after installing ATI's latest drivers for my video card. ATI has been no help so far, after submitting a trouble ticket on their website. Their Tech Support keeps sending me pregenerated responses which do not address my problem or mention any possibilities of a fix to the driver.

As it is, I will rolling back my drivers to the ones that came out of the box, the same ones I've been using for a year on various games including EQ2 with ZERO problems.

For those who may ask, I am both computer proficient and regularly do maintenaince on my computer including: virus sweeps, adware/spyware sweeps (2 seperate programs), registery scrub, and defraging the harddrive. This problem was clearly caused by ATI's newest drivers as the problem began occuring immediately after install and no other changes were made to my computer at the time.

The truly ironic part, is that the only reason I installed the new drivers in the first place, was because I got a message from EQ (original Everquest) saying that with my current drivers I may experience problems and that they recommended I download and install the latest drivers for my video card.

I'm using a Sapphire 128MB ATI Radeon PRO. Now I'm regretting not purchasing Windows XP Proffesional instead of the Home Edition, because then I could simply rollback my drivers with a single click.
#4 Feb 02 2006 at 10:53 AM Rating: Decent
Same probs here for longest time... when we saw ati had 6.1 catalyst driver that stated it fixed this problem with EQ2 i was so happy thinking i could play the game... but 5 min. into it vpu resets already... but somehow i got the game to work. What i did is use cat-uninstall or whatever u get when u download ati drivers to remove all ati devices off your computer. Go to ati's website and go to the catalyst driver 5.2 make sure u download and install netframework that is recommended for the 2nd download type. after that is installed download 5.2 drivers... my game hasn't crashed from a vpu reset for a WEEK so far... sure right after i buy a new video card lol... but ours was so bad that it would do a vpu reset every 5 min and then crash or stop responding completly it did since we started playing (about a year) so there is hope!! i swear we wouldn't find a fix but yay!! we found one that worked... the only other thing we did is blow out all the dust in the computer. but i think it was the fact we didn't have framework downloaded that was recommended by ati.. give it a try tell me if it works for anyone else.

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