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I play Battlefield 2, but then randomly, an error pops up saying something about VPU recovery, and how it reset my graphics drivers, because it wasn't responding to the game. And after the error, the game gets messed up, and i have to quit again to play it properly until i get the error again. I have an ATI Radeon 9000 graphics card, but i believe the minimum requirements for the game is ATI Radeon 8500. Is there anything i can do to fix this? or do I have to buy a new Graphics card.. ?

Personally, I think the ATI Radeon 9000 Is getting a bit old. I would suggest buying a new card.

Sry, I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what you just said but my pc-know-it-all-brother helped me install a graphics card for my 7 year old pc so I might have an idea when I say this....

I think when that error popped up, the computer decided to roll back your graphics display card or whatever to the most recent version before the Radeon 9000.

Let's see...

1) Right click on desktop --> properties --> settings Tab
2)Click Advanced --> Monitor Tab
3)Click properties --> Driver Tab
4)Click 'Update driver...'

I think that will fix it (but I know for sure it won't mess it up). In case it doesn't work...

5) Go back to General Tab and click Troubleshoot

If it only happens in Battlefield 2, then I don't think your graphics card is dying. Any chance for an error screenshot?

Something is really messed up now. I can't play any game. I downloaded a graphic driver update, and played BF2 and it worked alright, until I got the error once again. Once that happened, I turned off the computer, came back to it in about an hour, and none of the games would run.

Ill list the games i cant play and what error i get

Flight SimulatorX -- this game is not working with your graphics card.

(But it worked before....)

BF2 -- it opens, then just closes. No error.

CoD1-- i click on the symbol, but nothing comes up. When i looked on my X fire status though, i was playing the game.

CoD:UO -- same thing^

CoD2 -- something about DirectX 9.0 finding an unrecoverable error
(i never had a DirectX problem before)

Battlefront 2-- it says, no TnL is deteced on your display adapter

republic commando says insefficent pixel shader, RC requires pixel shader 1.1 or higher.

But I HAVE all the things is says i dont have. I have to have them. I had them before, and i didn't delete anything. Or may this have all happened because of the graphics card update? Please help!

Sounds like the card died... if it's saying all that there is a major problem, I'd contact ATI customer support....

ATI Radeon 9000? Sounds like a $10 upgrade/Replace might be a viable solution.

OF course, look up the Clock Speed of the GPU and Memory to make sure what you're buying is better.

I also severly doubt that that card supports the newer things - standards I guess- like the HDR shader model3.0 blah blah stuff, so you probably won't have to worry about looking for those features.

Elmo, 1 thing you never must do is installing drivers from the internet, especially if it only happens to 1 game. Only install drivers when your whole pc is messed up. This I know through personal experience with installing a nvidea driver for my Geforce card.

The best thing you can do to play it again is to restore the settings from your pc to the day when you could play bf2 normally. This helped me many times.

Yes, you are having driver problems. If your card was physically failing, you would be having display corruption, not general error messages.

I would recommend uninstalling all your graphics related drivers/software (card drivers, ATI software, DirectX, etc...) then reinstalling the versions you had when everything was working. Also check dxdiag and Window's display settings to make sure the hardware acceleration is not turned down low.

What OS are you running?