Hello All,
I would appreciate your advice on this.
I am experiencing repeated game crashes, and Catalyst also crashes sometimes at startup.
Mobo Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R bios F10
RAM 1x2GB Muskin
Sapphire ATI Radeon 4670
Windows XP SP3
Catalyst 8.8 (bundled with card)
Game: Homeworld 2 (i know, it’s old…)
The system was built a week ago and seems to work ok otherwise (video coding etc.)
I tried to update graphics drivers: Catalyst 8.9 didn’t work, and Sapphire removed it from the 4670 section of their site today.
Nothing either at amd.
- Updating the bios, etc. using gigabytes’ utility
- Turning on or off power saving features.
- complete uninstall/reinstall of driver&catalyst
→ did not change the problem. - Lowering graphical details (reset to factory defaults) made the issue occur somewhat less frequently - still once every 1 1/2h maybe.
Then I noticed in the ACEE events viewer, a lot of messages, with timestamp matching the moment when the game crashes:
“Set OD5 fan speed fail”.
It definitely looks like a driver problem.
There seems to be vey little literature online about this. Please see:
“set od5 fan speed epm fail” - Google Search
And about drivers for the 4670:
AMD Game Forums - Where are the drivers for Radeon HD 4670?
Do you have any idea ? Or shall i just wait till amd issues the next magic driver version ?
Thanks a lot for your help !!
Antoine