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YES!!! :CONGRAT: IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! I simply RMA'd my card and and the sexy beast came today...[I]What a difference!!![/I] I will post the cause of the faulty card proposed by Dell when they tell me. THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!! YOU HAVE MADE ME ONE HAPPY GUY! :D
Well, I swept the drivers clean and installed the newest one. Same result X-(
Well, the only thing I did in the BIOS was run a system check. It even failed that o.O I just did the last thing I could think of which was to go into the 3D settings in the Nvidia control panel and manually turn off functions of my graphics card, particularly the "conformant texture clamp", which should be turned off should artifacting occur. Didn't help at all.
[quote]As far as the temperature is concerned, I downloaded a program from Nvidia's site that lets you tweak the fan on the GPU. I cranked it up from 3o% (default) to 70% and even removed the side panel of my tower. This brought my idling GPU from 58 degrees C to 48 degrees. The game still did the same thing however. Still, some people have told me it only needs to reach 70 before it starts to overheat. So should I invest in an aftermarket heatsink--WWW Link, or should I keep checking around?[/q
Well, I just manually moved my 8800GT to the other PCI x16 slot. No difference. Do you guys (and girl :D) think I should keep trying or is card only good for RMA now?
Correct. Only my RAM is OC'd. My GPU has the only temperature sensor I know of. After 20 minutes of playing Battlefield 2 (which works like a charm?) My GPU had only gone up 2 degrees C. I'm going to download 3D Mark 06 just to see what the results are...if any :NOTSURE:
Hey. Just ran Nvidia's nTune system stability test. Here are the results. Note: I used current settings for 10 minutes, nothing over the top. All 5 systems at once: FAIL (this looking exactly like whats happening in Sins, with the green wave of artifacts covering my screen, but this time it happened in less than 2 seconds. Processor: Pass RAM: Pass PCI-E Bus: Fail (system just froze) Disk: Pass GPU: FAIL (Same result for when I did the whole system) I
Okay, I did that. Actually, I saw an improvement! This time when I froze, It took it 5 minutes, and I did not encounter the artifacting that has been happening. It just simply froze. The reason I thought I had the latest drivers was because I let a tech support guy from my PC's manufacturer (Dell) remotely do some things. I did not stick around while he was doing this, so I'm at fault for this. Whatever. Still, I'm going to have to resolve this freezing if it kills me
The system is a week old, so dust shouldn't be an issue. If it were a driver issue, would Vista not work properly then, because its seemingly at 100% for me right now. As far as the temperature is concerned, I downloaded a program from Nvidia's site that lets you tweak the fan on the GPU. I cranked it up from 3o% (default) to 70% and even removed the side panel of my tower. This brought my idling GPU from 58 degrees C to 48 degrees. The game still did the same thing however. Still, some
Try rebooting?
The thing is, they [I]Shouldn't[/I]. My system specs are in most cases double or triple the performance required. I have installed new drivers for my monitor, graphics card, and updated to the lastest patch. I have also installed this game on another computer, and no defects of the game were detected by me on there, so the disc is not corrupted. So I feel like i'm walking into the dark on this one. No clue what to do.
I don't have a sensor, so no idea. But, that would be a strange reason as that would mean my GPU skyrockets in temperature in the space of 10-20 seconds.
Did all that, the game still crashes...I suspect my video card with a memory conflict?
Actually. Problem wasn't fixed. Those green flashes I mentioned earlier happen everytime I run the game for around 10-30 seconds. Something to do with my graphics card, judging on the administrative log event viewer. Any help?
Ah, nothing like a healthy reboot for your system Problem fixed. :CONGRAT:
If it helps, here are my system layout: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6850 (4MB L2 Cache,3.0GHz,1333 FSB) 4 GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz OC'd to 1066MHz (4 DIMMs) 512MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT BTX Motherboard
Hello, thanks for looking at this. I recently bought a new gaming rig (for obvious reasons) and went out today to pick up a copy of this game. I was so thrilled to play it on my brand-spanking-new beast. I pop the CD in, install it, everything's great. So I run the game, looks fantastic, and I begin the basic tutorial. I noticed that my picture is a little off, so I go to options and select a slightly higher resolution, but noticed I could still do better, so I select the 1600 by 1000 res
