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  • 21-11-2005 1:34am
    #1
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭


    I bought a new DVD RW Dual layer drive... I installed it and done all teh mumbo jumbo. When I did the computer slowed down by like 50%. I ran adaware and AVG softwares... I got this error message:
    "VPU recoverer has reset your graphics accelerator as it was no longer responding to graphics driver commands"

    What exactly is this. I remember getting this before but I have no idea how I sorted it. :) Anyway I updated the drivers and everything but still no luck... When I go to play battlefield 2 it just crashes almost right away.

    Any help is appreciated. Thanks...

    Oh graphics card is a 9800 pro...


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  • #2
    mad m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,016 ✭✭✭mad m


    Can you go into your properties on desktop and disable the VPU recovery. place cursor on desktop,right click,properties, settings,advanced,VPU recovery.


  • #3
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Yea just did it... what will that do? Will I always keep it like that?


  • #4
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Strange... everything is working erfectly again... It was obviously a virus. I will defragment and hope that everything will stay this way. Thanks again...


  • #5
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Probably not a virus, as I understand it, VPU recover is a mostly uselss feature of ATI Graphics cards which allows you to recover the connection between graphics accelerator and the driver.

    I'm sure it just grabbed all the resources it could when it did this.

    To turn it off, go to Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->VPU Recover tab and uncheck both boxes. :)


  • #6
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    I won't be turning it off, I did so last night and that worsened the situation... Images were not been seen, like the file icons, and I got serious artifacts on the desktop.

    Well I think it was a virus. I got 14 and deleted them, after that everything was grand. I will post here if it happens again, cheers.


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  • #7
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    ATI VPU recover can be very handy for some games, where a crash means you lose all your unsaved progress. Saved my ass a few times in GTA San Andreas!


  • #8
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    Suit yourself, but TweakGuides.com says:
    VPU Recover

    Enable VPU Recover: VPU Recover attempts to stop any sort of graphics-related crashes or freezes from completely locking up or resetting your machine. While this is a valiant idea, in practice VPU Recover has been known to increase the probability of problems and crashes itself when enabled, and more importantly using VPU Recover regularly is a sign that something is wrong with your system and you need to find the source of the problem. I recommend that you untick (disable) VPU Recover to increase system stability, and then seek out and remedy the source of any problems by using the tips in the rest of this guide, such as those in the Troubleshooting section below.

    Prepare an Error Report: If VPU Recover is enabled, this option will be available to be ticked. If ticked, it means that every time your system has an error which VPU Recover helps recover from, an email will be generated which you can send to ATI disclosing the details of the problem. While this may help ATI in determining the cause of certain issues, more often than not it is completely unnecessary and I recommend unticking this option, even if you do use VPU Recover.

    Click Apply to put these changes into effect.
    :)


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