VPU Recover Error

Hi guys, just been browsing your forums and you seem very clued up! FAR beyond my knoweldge.

My PC has been playing up lately and haven't got a clue what the problem is.

It only happens when I play a demanding game, such as Battlefield Vietnam.

I can normally play for a couple of minutes but the the game will crash and I get an error box on my desktop saying that I have had a VPU Recover Error.

It says that my graphics card stopped responding to the driver commands and VPU could not stop this from happening.

It's a Radeon 8500DV (64mb) card, and I've tried the latest Catalyst (4.7 I think, it's the latest on the ATI site anyway) as well as backdating.

I don't know what has brought this on OR how to get rid of it?

Can you guys help? Sick of playing games on my laptop :P

Cheers, Bam

Edit: Forgot to say, I'm running:

Pentium 4 2.6Ghz,
1GB RAM
ATI All-In-Wonder 8500DV 64mb gfx.

Thanks again!

I don't know this well, but it seems that after catalyst3.8, this new function introduced, if it fails, you'd better disable this VPU something by property or setting, otherwise down to 3.7.

Well I have experienced the same problem too, The problem started when I overclocked my radeon 9200 sucking edition...
I don't have a real clue, I just format my HDD, and start all over again. strangely, the problem is gone.....

VPU is an ati app that tries to keep a vid card problem from crashing everything. When you do things like OC the video card, it can overheat easily if you don't take appropriate cooling steps and crash. If VPU can't fix it, you'll get these errors.

Hmm.. Thanks for the info guys.

Strangely enough, nothing in my system is overclocked so that can't be a reason. Think I'll just have to reformat, but there's a lot of files on there that are needed and it will be awkward backing them up and reinstalling. Plus I'll need to find that Win XP CD :P