tetrafuran
August 28th, 2008, 05:04 AM
I would like to hear opinions concerning whether this is caused by software (e.g. drivers) or hardware. Advice on solving it would also be appreciated.
I have an ASUS GeForce 7300 video card and two things occur:
1) 3D games/applications such as Sauerbraten, Glest, Stellarium etc. exit suddenly. I am allowed to use these programs for a few minutes and then something happens. Before that the programs run as expected and produce nice 3D graphics. If I run them from the terminal I get different messages upon the unexpected exit, but all of them have one thing in common - "segmentation fault"
2) The same programs also have a tendency to occasionally freeze the computer so that reset button is the only one it responds to. Some games seem to prefer freezing over silent exiting, but exceptions do occur. A few times this also happened during restart just before loading the OS. At this point you might think this is hardware related. I also thought the same until I made further experiments.
I have used this computer with another hard drive that contains Windows XP. It runs 3D without any problems. No freezing OS or crashing apps. Of course I have started this computer with Ubuntu a few hundred times and with XP less than a dozen times so this test doesn't thoroughly issue the freezing problem. At this point the freezing might even be caused by the different hard drives for all I know. Computers are mysteriously complicated...
I have an ASUS GeForce 7300 video card and two things occur:
1) 3D games/applications such as Sauerbraten, Glest, Stellarium etc. exit suddenly. I am allowed to use these programs for a few minutes and then something happens. Before that the programs run as expected and produce nice 3D graphics. If I run them from the terminal I get different messages upon the unexpected exit, but all of them have one thing in common - "segmentation fault"
2) The same programs also have a tendency to occasionally freeze the computer so that reset button is the only one it responds to. Some games seem to prefer freezing over silent exiting, but exceptions do occur. A few times this also happened during restart just before loading the OS. At this point you might think this is hardware related. I also thought the same until I made further experiments.
I have used this computer with another hard drive that contains Windows XP. It runs 3D without any problems. No freezing OS or crashing apps. Of course I have started this computer with Ubuntu a few hundred times and with XP less than a dozen times so this test doesn't thoroughly issue the freezing problem. At this point the freezing might even be caused by the different hard drives for all I know. Computers are mysteriously complicated...