Rogue Pinball
Main Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: GSGregg on January 04, 2014, 01:01:24 AM
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...but everything was fine with a previous computer, video card, etc., the likely culprit is insufficient video RAM, right? About 2.5 years ago, a bad DIMM scrambled the data on my hard drive and necessitated its replacement (the comp would boot through the BIOS screens, but after the briefest flash of the XP Welcome screen, it would start over, repeating indefinitely until the power cord was unplugged), and I narrowed things down using Memtest86. Trying to help Bill Poje with a thread over at PN, I looked for a memory test for GPUs and found two that looked interesting:
Video Memory Stress Test (only tests up to 1GB, supposedly, but should be enough for most of what I am likely to run into any time soon---available at technibble.com and others)
CUDA GPU memtest (in open-source development, written in CUDA and Open CL, available at sourceforge.net)
Has anyone here used either of these? And formed opinions?
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Well, I wish I knew something on the subject. But I might be able to help you by telling you where you might find someone who does know more about this subject.
Try the vpforums.org (http://www.vpforums.org) and post your question there; usually someone will respond fairly quickly. Or, for people who are more into pin cabs, try the HyperPin (http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?2255-Announcing-HyperPin-Digital-Pinball-Frontend) site. You might also try VPUniverse.com (http://vpuniverse.com/index.php/index.html) site for even more cab builders who might be able to help you with this issue.
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I've been on this one at PN. He has an old desktop, that after updating a driver, he gets this error. This error means your video card isn't strong enough to run the table.
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Hi, Itchigo and PeterMac;
I've been on this one at PN. He has an old desktop, that after updating a driver, he gets this error. This error means your video card isn't strong enough to run the table.
My fingers were hovering, about to start a quick reply, when there was a knock at the door. Now, hours later.....(10:54PM PST) I'll try again.
AMD released the Radeon HD4350 on 9/30/2008, so Bill's OptiPlex 380 was most likely made no earlier than that. After VP(8) was installed with Phoenixx's V.I.P last month, Win7 detected 'a problem' with the vidcard; the 'Could not create' error didn't occur until after the update which, I assume, consisted of or included the Catalyst 13.9 driver that now shows in his information.
Apparently there's no way to determine what the original problem is/was, but I wouldn't be surprised if the new driver is lacking some old feature support by design; I've read many instances of older drivers being preferred, or even necessary, for running VP. As to his original problem, maybe his system wasn't taxed until VP showed up; it's been mentioned that VP was on his brother's old comp and was transferred to his brother's newer HP Pro, but nothing's been said about VP being on the OptiPlex before a month or so ago.
You no doubt know me as a procrastinator (still nursing AGP8X), and I am inclined to test before replacing; hence my quest for a GPU memory tester. What I remember,or deduce from files/folders on my comp, about memtest86 is that you download a zip, extract an ISO, burn the ISO onto a CD, and boot from the CD to test your system RAM. Video Memory Stress Test starts with the zip, ISO, etc., but there are additional files including four 'Readme's in English, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian (translations of which leave some instructions teetering on oblivion) and the EXE, which put the UI onscreen even though I hadn't burned the bootdisk yet. I looked it over and pressed the Start button to see what warning popped up---and the test started on the spot! (No harm, though---everything was closed out)
By default, the controls were set to the Full battery of tests, and about 4-1/2 hours later I was presented with the UI indicating No Errors Found. Darn---I was hoping for something that would explain the occasional burp-and-fart with which the ROMS purge their bad lunches or whatever.....
All in all, though, a very interesting acquisition. And now at 1:15 AM PST, I say, "So much for the quick reply". Thanks for reading.
Gregg