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ranj60   03-27-2007 at 10:07:02 PM

I use the 64 bit with a 8800gts 640mb factory o.c. and when I play certain games like hl2 deatmatch I get horizontal distortion lines across the whole screen. Some games I get nuthin. Is this a bad card or vista or perhaps the games themselves.

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Nonymous   03-27-2007 at 10:38:32 PM
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What version of the driver? The current 'official' WHQL driver (version 100.65) has a lot of known problems. It might be certified by Microsoft, but that doesn't mean it's feature-complete. It only means that Microsoft doesn't think it'll crash your system.

There's a newer Beta driver (101.45) that fixes a lot of gaming problems.

That said, the 101.45 causes *tons* of blue screens of death for me when watching xvid videos.

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ranj60   03-28-2007 at 12:38:16 AM
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I have 100.65 from nvidia. I tried drivers from guru3d but it made the p.c. crash every time I loade hl2 deathmatch. where do you get the beta drivers?

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Nonymous   03-28-2007 at 01:16:50 AM
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You can get them on the regular nVidia drivers page...

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp


Click on the "BETA Drivers" link. (It's easy to miss.)

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ranj60   03-28-2007 at 01:33:35 AM
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It says 101.41 for vista/64. Is this ok. also, what is rivatuner and how can it help,...thanx

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Nonymous   03-28-2007 at 01:54:38 AM
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101.41? Yeah, that's them. I was mistaken when I said 101.45.

Rivatuner can be used to monitor the temperature of a video card. (Amongst other things.). I've been unable to get it to run under 64-bit. Let us know if you can.

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ranj60   03-28-2007 at 01:57:46 AM
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yea, I cant get it to run either. thanx

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sabot00   05-11-2008 at 06:22:40 AM
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does vista 64 automatically run WoW64 when it detects a 32bit only app?

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Jaevric   05-13-2008 at 03:47:25 PM
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sabot00 wrote :

does vista 64 automatically run WoW64 when it detects a 32bit only app?



Yes. I run 32 bit applications without any extra steps.

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