Viva pinata crashes

sham885 · 04-11-2008, 07:47 PM

I have a radeon 9800xt and the minimum recommended is a 9600. 2gb of ram, 3.0ghz p4, 250g harddrive.

I got viva pinata several months ago and it worked fine for about a week. Then it started freezing occasionally and eventually went to closing with no error message after freezing within 5mins of starting it.

Now I have my brand new clean install of xp, new heatsink/fan on my cpu and improved cooling around my graphics card so I thought I'd try it again. I didn't even get a game started and it crashed. The catalyst control center flashed something about my graphics card crashing before the standard windows error message appeared "Viva Pinata.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.".

I installed ATI tool and set up the graphs before attempting to run viva pinata again. I expected some spike in temp or usage before it crashed but instead the graphs show these blips where all values drop to 0.00 and go back to the same as before I started the game repeatedly in short bursts around the time the game freezes. Any ideas or is it time for a new card? It is over 4yrs old.

groudon185p · 04-12-2008, 05:21 AM

sounds like you need a new card, recommending a new ati gecube hd2600 pro, there great for gaming, even though i am a nvidia person, ive played on one of those and there pretty good.

sham885 · 04-12-2008, 03:06 PM

Well I started another game that the computer usually runs and it froze. Then the monitor showed no signal. I had to cut the power and restart. So I guess I need a new graphics card. I think I have a pci slot. Under the graphics card properties it says Location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0.

Ati's upgrade advisor suggests a radeon x1550. Would that work? I'm not playing the latest and best games out there. Viva pinata is by far the most demanding game I have.

04-11-2008, 07:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
sham885 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 19 OS: ubuntu, xp sp2	Viva pinata crashes I have a radeon 9800xt and the minimum recommended is a 9600. 2gb of ram, 3.0ghz p4, 250g harddrive. I got viva pinata several months ago and it worked fine for about a week. Then it started freezing occasionally and eventually went to closing with no error message after freezing within 5mins of starting it. Now I have my brand new clean install of xp, new heatsink/fan on my cpu and improved cooling around my graphics card so I thought I'd try it again. I didn't even get a game started and it crashed. The catalyst control center flashed something about my graphics card crashing before the standard windows error message appeared "Viva Pinata.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.". I installed ATI tool and set up the graphs before attempting to run viva pinata again. I expected some spike in temp or usage before it crashed but instead the graphs show these blips where all values drop to 0.00 and go back to the same as before I started the game repeatedly in short bursts around the time the game freezes. Any ideas or is it time for a new card? It is over 4yrs old.

04-12-2008, 05:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
groudon185p Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NSW, Australia Posts: 288 OS: Vista Ultimate Sp1 My System	Re: Viva pinata crashes sounds like you need a new card, recommending a new ati gecube hd2600 pro, there great for gaming, even though i am a nvidia person, ive played on one of those and there pretty good.

04-12-2008, 03:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
sham885 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 19 OS: ubuntu, xp sp2	Re: Viva pinata crashes Well I started another game that the computer usually runs and it froze. Then the monitor showed no signal. I had to cut the power and restart. So I guess I need a new graphics card. I think I have a pci slot. Under the graphics card properties it says Location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0. Ati's upgrade advisor suggests a radeon x1550. Would that work? I'm not playing the latest and best games out there. Viva pinata is by far the most demanding game I have.