Okay - I've had a look back through the forums but can't quite come up with anything like my problem - so here goes.

I seem to have a problem with my graphics card. I can race in chase view and get a good 90 - 100 FPS all night long. I can race in wheel only view and get 140+ FPS, but if I choose cockpit view I will get a good frame rate for about a lap or so, and then ----- nothing. Whole graphics system shuts down and I get a message on screen saying "no signal" or something like that.

I don't get any green dots or slowing down - it just goes "pop" and nothing. It's annoying as since I became S2 licenced I prefer to race the open wheel cars from cockpit view, but with this problem I cant.

Is my card FUBAR? Is there anything I can run to test it - like a benchmark program - and if so where do I get one? Is there any way of monitoring the system to see what's happening when it shuts down? It looks like an overheating problem but it's weird - is cockpit view really that much more process intensive than say chase view?

Over to you guys - try not to baffle me with tech speak too much if you'd bee so kind!

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Is my card FUBAR? Is there anything I can run to test it - like a becnhmark program - and if so where do I get one? Is there any way of monitoring the system to see what's happening when it shuts down? It looks like an overheating problem but it's weird - is cockpit view really that much more process intensive than say chase view?

i used to have this, and ill ask you a few questions, and yes cockpit view is the most demanding view of them all
What PSU do you have? (Power supply - ie your pc may be underpowered and just run outta juice and turn off!)
Is It overclocked? (Happens to me when i overclock my 6600GT's)
Is it overheating? (Most Likely)

Benchmarking > www.futuremark.com and try 3DMark03

PSU - don't know. Am at work at the moment so will have a look later on. Any idea on what the minimum requirement is? 350 / 450 / 550???
Overclocked - Nope - never touched it.
Overheating - again don't know - how could I find out?

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PSU - don't know. Am at work at the moment so will have a look later on. Any idea on what the minimum requirement is? 350 / 450 / 550???
Overclocked - Nope - never touched it.
Overheating - again don't know - how could I find out?

depends what your PC is, but 350w should do for a sys with a 9250 in it, i reckon that you should look at overheating tho

Okay - What I'll do is open up the case to have a look at the PSU later. While I've got it open I'll use one of my R/C cooling fans to blow on the card and see if that helps while I race on cockpit view.

Is there anything I can have on screen showing temps - I've seen on here before people quoting CPU temps and such?

Thanks for your help JakG!!

Edit: Got to go to dentist later so this may or may not happen tonight.......

cpu temps are easy (i use Speedfan), but graphics cards are harder as few cards come with the temerrature thingies on them

Que someone more helpful...

ATI Tray Tools will give you GPU, CPU and environment temps

Okay cheers for the quck response chaps - I will report back when I have some information.

Thanks again