7600 gt performance issues

Hi, ive recently brought a winfast 7600gt and it seems to be strugling with lots of games. ive installed the appropriate drivers, it does seem a bit wierd can only select 3 different resolutions though. right the games are looking like this









i sent it back to the company once and they sent it back to me giving the all clear saying they had tested it to death but no faults were found! does anyone know how i might be able to solve this problem??? Thanks

Goto www.nvidia.com and download the latest drivers, thats a driver issue alright

hmm then it could be that ure card is heating up, try de-clocking ure card through ntune

i had this issue long time back , i de clocked the ram and the card was stable

use driver cleaner to get rid of old drivers before installing new ones

driver overwrites and incomplete uninstalls can wreak havoc

I wonder what are your computer specs, not only your video card, I have one coupled with a core 2 duo E6600, 2 gb of ram 2 160 gb hard drives. I have played Fear, FarCry, NFSCarbon, NFS Nostwanted, SplintercellCT, and no problemou at all. So I wonder if

a) You are oc your system.
b) are oc your video card
c) You are using non nvidia drivers

If you have a dual core proc (AMD or Intel) there are some issues that can be solved really easy. Read Maximum PC´s article on the matter.

So in the case that we don not have enough info about your pc, sorry. Mine rocks with the same videocard.

Hasta la vista cocodrilos

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lookin for drivercleaner? here's a download:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak [...] onal.shtml

read the directions as you will use it in safe-mode.

good luck!

you mean UNDERCLOCKING, its basically running the card slower then what its ment for, but even then, it should work without doing so.

CHIPSET INCOMPATIBILITY?

Declocking the card would do exactly that , which is reduce the frequency at which your card would be working.

In other words it would be slowing your ram and core , try slowing the ram , but after looking at your posts i can see that you are new to this graphic card stuff.

I Would advise you to get the card replaced , as it should run at stock speeds :x

Thats what you paid for and you should get that performance .

I had the exact same problem with my BFG 6600GT OC. I downloaded the newest drivers from nvidia and I had artifacts just like in your screen shots. I am 99.9% sure it is driver related since I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled my old driver and that solved the problem (luckily I saved the old . exe) Sucks though since im running on drivers that are pretty much outdated a year or so ago. The newer ones dont work on my system for some reason.


I contacted nvidia about it and they said they have no known issues with my card and the latest drivers. Basically they thumbed their noses at me and gave me a big long list of general troubleshooting. Which of course didnt solve the problem.

just asking, are you using riva tuner or something like it?. Another Idea. An this is just plain dumb. I assume your card is a PCI express, but main thing you have to declare in the BIOS that you are using the pci-E card as your primary display. It may work, it may not.

Saludos

click (start), then (run) and type (dxdiag.exe) press ok and there you are!

Thanks Dude!

Ok, there are some stuff that you have to check in the bios also. Check that your agp is the primary display. Check that if your card is an agp 8x, it has the same info on the bios (agp mode 8x). Also Enable Fast write, and that your agp aperture size is more than 64mb.

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Hasta la vista baby

I'm not sure why nobody has brought this up yet, but I really think it's a power issue.

I see you have a 550watt PSU. What brand is it? Specs? Even if the wattage is high is doesn't mean it is always a good PSU.

I had an almost identical problem myself. I tried putting a 7600GS into an old P4 2.4. I should have realized beforehand (since I know better) but I just didn't think to check the power requirements and what PSU I had in that system. I tried running Battlefield 2 and got an effect exactly like the last screenshot you posted.

Drivers...I doubt that's the problem. I could be wrong, but if you have the newest drivers straight from the website and get these problems with several games, then I wouldn't think it's the drivers.

Other than that...it could be a chipset issue...but if it's a decent MoBo and relatively new, it's less likely.

Check your Power Supply and the requirements for the card. Make sure you don't have anything else that's drawing large amounts of power in your PC.

well i just brought a new one but im not sure how to tell about the amps, no of rails etc, infact on the listing its says seperate 12v rails so that does imply more than one!!

I go with the power issue. I was running this card on a Gigabyte NF 570 board and I had a loose connection on the plug that went to the motherboard that provided extra power to the PCI-E slots. My games looked the same when I played games like FEAR and when I did something that coused a lot of graphics (i.e. explosions) then computer would lock up. Pulled out the video card to test it in another system and noticed the molex plug was loose, push it in, re-inserted card, worked fine until the USPS destroyed the whole machine.

You may not have the same setup, but I do agree that this looks like a power related issue.