Hi all,

I drove two championship events without AGP hardware acceleration and there was no problem with game crashes at all. After installing patch U, I returned to the hardware-accelerated configuration and LFS seems to be running well so far. If a problem occurs, I will report it again.

Zsolt

I'm waiting for the fix too, but until that, I have scheduled races to be done, so I've come up with a solution: if you turn 8x AGP settings off and set the video card to provide only basic directx functionality, no game crash occurs.

However, frame rate drops drastically (when I start a race, it's below 10).

I hope it's not a big issue to fix this bug, since it's very uncomfortable to drive like that.

I don't have any problems with other games. On a bug report forum thread, It's clear that I am not the only one who has this problem.

The game froze again with the 5.11 Catalyst drivers too, while the RADEON 9600 PRO was not even warm.

I will drive with a GeForce2 MX 400 until the bug is fixed.

The game froze again with the 5.11 Catalyst drivers too, while the RADEON 9600 PRO was not even warm.

I will drive with a GeForce2 MX 400 until the bug is fixed.

The game froze again with the 5.11 Catalyst drivers too, while the RADEON 9600 PRO was not even warm.

I will drive with a GeForce2 MX 400 until the bug is fixed.

For ATI users: I have downloaded and installed Catalyst version 5.11 and the game seems to work fine so far. I have raced for around 1 hour, which is a huge improvement compared to crashing in every lap. If the game freezes with this driver too, I will send a message here.

It is a good compromise to use version 5.11 drivers until the problem is fixed.

For ATI users: I have downloaded and installed Catalyst version 5.11 and the game seems to work fine so far. I have raced for around 1 hour, which is a huge improvement compared to crashing in every lap. If the game freezes with this driver too, I will send a message here.

It is a good compromise to use version 5.11 drivers until the problem is fixed.

For ATI users: I have downloaded and installed Catalyst version 5.11 and the game seems to work fine so far. I have raced for around 1 hour, which is a huge improvement compared to crashing in every lap. If the game freezes with this driver too, I will send a message here.

It is a good compromise to use version 5.11 drivers until the problem is fixed.

The problem got even more intensive after unpacking patch T.

Before opening a new bug report topic, I have searched for other bug reports of the same sort. I have a lot of game crashes too.

The similarities with our system specifications is that we both use ATI RADEON video cards and Windows XP. I have a Gigabyte RADEON 9600 PRO and use the latest 6.4 Catalyst driver from yesterday. My previous driver was probably above 5.11. There was no overclocking or overheating.

Since the new patch has come out, my game regularly freezes. After a game freeze, the ATI card resets itself in 10 seconds (VPU recover feature).

Before the latest LFS patch came out, I also had such game crashes, but they were very rare, and only occured with the FOX cars (after driving 2 or more hours). Now I can rarely complete a lap.

I have experimented with
- switching off my firewall completely and even running the program offline ;
- altering Catalyst settings and LFS graphics settings,
but nothing has worked so far.


See some other topics for problems with ATI cards:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=6858 and
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3639&page=5

Again the ATI Radeon... This game does not seem to be cooperating well with that card.

See some other topics:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=6858 and
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=3639&page=5

You're still lucky that your game does not freeze often.

No, I never overclock video cards.

First I thought that it's due to overheating. Before the patch, sometimes the game crashed after driving the FOX car for 1 or 2 hours. When I attended league races, I even cooled the video card manually. There's no special cooler attached to the card, only the right side panel of the computer is taken off so that more clean air gets in the inside of the computer.

Overheating was never a problem though in any applications.

Now that the game has been patched, I can hardly finish a lap with any car! I doubt that it's due to overheating reasons. I will try to install version 5.11 of the radeon driver.

I have a Gigabyte RADEON 9600 PRO and use the latest 6.4 Catalyst driver from yesterday. My previous driver was probably above 5.11. I'm satisfied with the performance, but since the new patch has come out, my game regularly freezes. After a game freeze, the ATI card resets itself in 10 seconds (VPU recover feature).

Before the latest LFS patch came out, I also had such game crashes, but they were very rare, and only occured with the FOX cars (after driving 2 or more hours). Now I can rarely complete a lap.

I have experimented with
- switching off my firewall completely and even running the program offline ;
- altering Catalyst settings and LFS graphics settings,
but nothing has worked so far.

Have you had similar problems with ATI, requiring your video card to reset itself?

I have run dxdiag, but haven't found anything special after reading the log file (http://cs.bme.hu/~zsnagy/dx/dxdiag.zip).

According to ati.com, the latest radeon driver is Catalyst 6.4. I have installed it yesterday evening, but I still can't complete a lap with the FOX and the Sauber cars, since the screen freezes and the video card resets itself.

I have also experimented with ATI Catalyst and in-game LFS settings, but nothing has worked so far.

I will download an earlier version of Catalyst (5.11) and see what happens.

I have a more complex problem with LFS.

I have a Gigabyte Radeon 9600 video card and whenever I drive the BMW, the game freezes after a few laps or corners. The screen displays one frame for more than 10 seconds, and an engine noise lasting for a tenth of a second repeats itself meanwhile. After that, the game returns to normal, but my resolution is set to 800x600 in the background, and window focus is given to the "Send error report to ATI technologies" popup window.

I experienced similar problems very rarely with the FOX car too.

I have tried to turn my firewall off and have also altered several graphical settings of LFS, but nothing has worked so far.

Do you have any experience on this phenomenon?