Video card cuts signal to monitor during naval battles.

[Jonny Noc]

No matter what settings I use in naval battles, a few minutes into a battle my monitor powers off and the game apparently freezes and I have to reboot my machine. I have never seen this before in a game, why would my monitor cut out all of a sudden? My specs are Vista 64 bit, Intel Core i7 920, 6 gigs of tri channel ram and a 9800 gtx+ running 181.22 drivers. I have also tried newer drivers and beta drivers all with the same result.

[IHV]

I seriously doubt your monitor turns itself off, more likely your video card stops responding (sending signal) and therefor the monitor turns itself off/standby mode.

I might be wrong ofcourse but i think you should search the problem with your video settings/drivers.

No overclocking error pop up when you reboot?

[Jonny Noc]

Sorry man, you are right, it's not my monitor powering off but the signal from my video card being cut out. Bad wording on my part. I do not get an overclocking error upon reboot and nothing on my rig is overclocked. Like I said I am using the 181.22 drivers, I have also tried the 182.06 drivers and the newer beta drivers all with the same result.

[Jonny Noc]

Anyone else have this problem?

[jetli3771]

Yes, i have this failure too.

I had a ATI 2600 XT an i try a lot of things, to make Empire run without crashes in battles (not only in naval battles).

After all, i set down the resolution to 1024x768 and it works (but as ugly as Imperial Glory )

Now i upgraded to a ATI 4870 and all works fine with ultra settings, 8 x af and 4 x aa. Driver is the newest catalyst 9.3

Try to decrease the resolution, that should help you.

Regards

jet