New Players Issue

I myself have been playing GW for about 19 months now, and I persuaded my friend to play. According to him when he logs on, about 10 seconds after his screen turns back and his computer freezes and he gets the message "No Signal Input" and he can't alt+tab out or X out, from there he has to reboot. These are his specs

amd anthlon(th) 64 processor 3000+
2.01 GHz, 1.00 GB of RAM
Radeon 8500/Radeon 8500 LE


Thanks in advance

Driver crash. I get it all the time truth be told. Besides that, i dont think his graphics is capable. And if it was.. its stilll VERY old

If you're getting a no signal input message, that means your monitor is not getting signal (i.e. computer shut down or is no longer sending input to your monitor).

Does the picture come back on its own? Or does he have to restart?

If it comes back on its own, it's likely a driver issue. If not, I'd suspect hardware failure in the video card.

Is there anyway to update the driver so it stops crashing?

Download the newest driver from here:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Not sure if it will solve the problem.

If it crashes so hard the video card stops outputting a signal it could be something worse than a driver bug, possibly hardware failure or overheating.

ATI's drivers have been known to crash in interesting ways, though - try updating the driver first. I don't know if they've worked on that video card's driver in years so don't expect wonders.

I've heard of this issue being a known bug with some nVidia cards and LCD monitors, but not with ATIs. But it could be a driver problem.

Or maybe that poor old 8500 LE (Least Effective ) is just straining it's poor guts out and overheating. Make sure you try it with the video settings turned down a bit (particularly, turn Anti-Aliasing off)