I was thinking about overclocking my 9600se for fun so i got 3D Mark 2001 to test the stability of the card before and after. Ok when i start the benchmark everything is good until i get to the lobby part. It freezes most of the time when he is running across the wall and people are shooting at him with shotguns and 3D Mark closes and a ATI VPU recover box comes up abnd says that the VPU stopped responding. This is before overclocking, but if i run it at a lower resolution it goes through the lobby perfect. It will no go through the lobby at 1024 x 768 but it goes through perfect on 800 x 600.

Any ideas? Should i try a different benchmarking program?

Thank you for all the help.

9600SE = budget video card.

You're going to encounter those kinds of problems with low end graphics cards. They just aren't designed to be pushed that hard.