Constant crashes and freezes in menus

[hexfield]

Hey folks. I've been using gbpvr for a few months now and I love it. My only recurring problem is that I'm getting frequent crashes. If I sit down to watch more than an hour of TV it's a guarantee that gbpvr will either lock up, requiring a ctrl-alt-del or freeze my entire system, necessitating a restart.

This problem almost always occurs while navigating menus (scrolling through list of recordings, deleting or selecting files to play, etc.) rather than during playback. I'm using the SearchWiz, Comskip, and Community Skin plugins as well as Slimm GB-PVR, but this problem existed before I installed those.

I'm running version 1.213 on an XP machine with 2 GB of memory, AMD 3200 CPU, ATI All in Wonder 9600 graphics card, and a Hauppauge WinTV 1600.

I zipped the logs right after restarting post-system crash. Any help would be awesome. Thanks.

[sub]

I'm not aware of others having crashes in the menus.

What does the crash message say?

Is there message added to the Windows Event Viewer at the same time?

[hexfield]

I don't recall what the crash message says. I believe it's something generic like "PVRX2.exe has performed an illegal operation and needs to be shut down". However much more often the program just freezes and needs to be quit through task manager, or freezes the entire system.

I did forget to mention that I sometimes get a VPU recovery message from ATI's control center telling me that I need to restart. My ATI driver's are up to date.

--R

[sub]

And the event viewer?

Given the VPU recovery message, and that you're in the menus (which use Direct3D), it sounds like it might be related to your video card or its drivers.

[hexfield]

I'm not an export with the Event Viewer, but under the System category I see an error that corresponds to the time of my last lock up that came from ati2mtag.exe. Category is CRT and the description says "CRT invalid display type."

Odd. I'm using an LCD television.

[sub]

Sorry, I dont really know. That message isnt something I'm familiar with.

[hexfield]

Just reinstalled my AGP driver and graphics drivers. Worked for a bit and then crashed "PVRX2.exe has experienced an unexpected error and must shut down. We apologize for any inconvenience" or something like that. Any ideas?

[sub]

Sorry, no - nothing springs to mind. Maybe try a different version of the videocard drivers.

[Pob]

Search for ati2mtag errors on the AMD Game forums found quite a few , like this one:
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.c...adid=99349
Does seem related to faulty ATI drivers or hardware...