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fezz   03-01-2007 at 03:45:39 AM

Why wont recent driver releases work on my system?

Windows XP SP2
BFG 6600GT AGP running at 4x

I was running on drivers that were about 2 years old for this very reason. Every updated driver I try I get artifacts and all bunch of crazy crap happens.
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7489/wtfhd1.jpg

I uninstalled my drivers from add/remove in the control panel. Restarted and then installed the drivers. What am I doing wrong? And what can I do to fix this?

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fezz   03-10-2007 at 11:29:27 PM
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62 views and not one reply? Way to go IDAHO. Ho? No, U-DA-HO. Well took me about a week of googling and I think I solved my problem in case anyone else is having a similar issue. Something like this should be made a sticky somewhere.

I uninstalled my video drivers via add/remove in the control panel. Then installed 84.21 drivers from nvidia's driver archive. I read that they are the most stable with a 6600GT and they aren't bloated with all the SLI stuff that I don't need.

Now this is what fixed the artifacting and polygon shapes. (At least in my case)

Right click on desktop
Properties>Settings tab>Advanced>Troubleshoot
And then uncheck write combine
Restart computer

So far so good. I have yet to have any issues or even any significant drop in frame rates.

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