The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and manufactured by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, on November 17, 2006, in North America, and on March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australia. The console was announced at E3 2005 and was the first PlayStation console to support DirectX 10.0.
The PS3 uses an AMD Geode by AMD processor with integrated Radeon graphics running at 1 GHz clocked at up to 800 MHz with a 128-bit bus providing 2 GFLOPS of compute power which is the same as the Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT’s G92 graphics core running at 900 MHz clocked at 800 MHz with a 128-bit bus providing about 2 GFLOPS of compute power for both graphics cards.
Reinstall your video card drivers
If you’re experiencing issues with your video card, reinstall it and see if that solves it. Sometimes the drivers need to be updated or reinstalled regularly (for example, when Microsoft releases new versions). If you’ve installed a new version of Windows lately, double-check that it’s still compatible with your hardware before proceeding with driver swapping.
Uninstall and then reinstall your video card drivers.
You can fix this by uninstalling and then reinstalling your video card drivers.
Use a driver-swapping program to switch cards.
The process of recovering from an impaired driver can take some time.
Recovering from an impaired driver can take some time. The process is not complicated, but it is time-consuming and not likely to be successful.
This is a screenshot of the NVIDIA driver installer window. Take note of what device is being installed and where it’s located within the options window:
Takeaway: You should always keep an eye on where your video card is located in the driver installation options before you install it. It’s easy to overlook if you need to pay attention.
Uninstall AMD Drivers
After downloading and installing the AMD drivers for your video card (Vista 64-bit), do not run them. Instead, move to the “uninstall” tab and click “uninstall.” Then restart your computer and rerun the NVIDIA drivers.
Takeaway: This method worked for me, so it’ll work for you too!
Check Device Manager to verify that your AMD drivers are no longer listed or controllable by Windows Update/the internet (can crash)***
I’ve found that if I have my computer up all night with no guarantee my machine will be running when I wake up – I can’t install new software or drivers without this issue happening. The only fix has been to restart my computer 10-20 times until all errors are gone/I get a message saying they were refreshed or fixed – but some things update every day, even when it’s like this (Windows updates security applications) – so getting anything updated can sometimes take awhile… If, instead, I boot up in a safe mode and then go about the day usually, only a little else comes thru until after users log off after the day end… When I’m back on standard mode, it works as expected again (no crashes). It’s pretty weird how this affects me, though – it’s like having random bad days at work where everything seems to be fine, but when you look back at what happened between those two points compared to similar days, it felt extraordinary/flawed… Also, over time this has become more frequent for
