So, Nvidia the culprit for these games?

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Looking around for problems similar to mine, because I'm using Vista I get used to having to do that, and the closest one was about the driver crashing and closing the game. My game never actually crashes, instead it starts twitching the screen when I try moving it and creates endless doubles of whatever's on the screen, settles down to look normal again, but it's froze. Alt+Tab used to fix it but after the third time of doing that it just shows big blocks on the screen. The driver did crash on me once though.

I tried making the suggestions everyone was saying, have all the Vista hotfixes, have the latest official Nvidia driver, changed all my settings to low, and even ran as administrator as that's a common problem with Vista. Nothing worked, load up the saved game and still the same problem. Supreme Commander had this problem for me also and still haven't been able to find a solution for that either.

Vista Home Premium 32 bit
AMD Athalon 5000+ 64x2 Duo Core
2G Memory
Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT

Sounds like this is more of a problem with Nvidia's drivers than anything else and they hopefully release the new drivers that's suppose to fix the problem as someone made in another post that it's in the works. Doesn't hurt to check if there's anything I can do about it until then though.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Yes, there's a known issue with nVidia's Vista drivers, particularly afflicting 7-series cards. If the other suggestions haven't helped though, there's not much else to do but wait for them to release a new driver with the fix (which they tell us they've already made).
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I suggest trying 1 of 2 things to fix your issue:

1) Roll back your driver to version 97.46
here is a link to Nvidia driver (32bit) =
WWW Link
and 64bit =
WWW Link

2)Try running Sins in Windowed mode.

I am using the rolled back driver w/ no issues (Vista,7900GS).
HOPE THIS HELPS

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
When it comes to the 7 series, it seems as though the crashes occur because of it putting strain on the graphics cards. I have a 7900GTX and mine would crash within 5 minutes (despite running very smooth), now it hasn't crashed at all. I turned down the effects, put the detail on medium or high, and put it on the lowest resolution. You can just play with that until a fix is released.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Thanks, game works fine as far as I've seen when it's windowed. Hope the nvidia staff gets moving on that fix though, I like full screen D:
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Perhaps consider saving up for an upgrade? Low end 8 series cards are pretty cheap. You can get an 8400 or 8500 for less than $50. My 9600 will run the demo of the game at full antialiasing and full detail with no signs of slowing down, and costs less than $200. So far, I've had no issues with it.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
what happens to ati radeon HD 3850 graphics card
p.s the demo works fine for me will the game be different
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
what happens to ati radeon HD 3850 graphics cardp.s the demo works fine for me will the game be different
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Well, obviously if you've got an ATI card then nVidia drivers can't cause you any trouble ;)

If the demo works, so should the full game.