Graphics Card Crash

[Dennis Lumkin]

I have a problem with PTE 5.1 as it crashes my graphics card after showing 6 or 7 slides. Also when a show is initated, the colour calibration of my monitor is taken out reverting to a very heavy blue cast. I am working with Windows XP home & my graphics card is an ATI Radeon X1650 Pro. There is no problem when I run PTE 4.48. Can anyone out there put some ideas forward how to correct this problem?

[fh1805]

Hi Dennis,

There have been several threads on this subject over the past twelve months or so but I'm damned if I can find any of them using the Search facility. The bottom line is: there is a known problem with some ATI Radeon graphics cards working in a colour calibrated system. Igor has raised the matter with ATI but as I recall the feedback, they seemed reluctant to do anything to correct things by reworking their drivers. Igor was planning to release a modified version of PTE that would work around the problem. As I wasn't directly affected I didn't follow the threads to their conclusions. No doubt someone with more knowledge or first-hand experience will chip in and provide more information.

[Ken Cox]

http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ost&p=48599

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[Dennis Lumkin]

Hi Dennis,

There have been several threads on this subject over the past twelve months or so but I'm damned if I can find any of them using the Search facility. The bottom line is: there is a known problem with some ATI Radeon graphics cards working in a colour calibrated system. Igor has raised the matter with ATI but as I recall the feedback, they seemed reluctant to do anything to correct things by reworking their drivers. Igor was planning to release a modified version of PTE that would work around the problem. As I wasn't directly affected I didn't follow the threads to their conclusions. No doubt someone with more knowledge or first-hand experience will chip in and provide more information.

[Dennis Lumkin]

Hi Dennis,

There have been several threads on this subject over the past twelve months or so but I'm damned if I can find any of them using the Search facility. The bottom line is: there is a known problem with some ATI Radeon graphics cards working in a colour calibrated system. Igor has raised the matter with ATI but as I recall the feedback, they seemed reluctant to do anything to correct things by reworking their drivers. Igor was planning to release a modified version of PTE that would work around the problem. As I wasn't directly affected I didn't follow the threads to their conclusions. No doubt someone with more knowledge or first-hand experience will chip in and provide more information.

Thanks for your reply. Dennis