8800GT, nVidia Drivers, Vista 64bit users?

I'm having some blue screen crashed and I'm trying to narrow it down.

Just wondering if there are any Vista 64 bit user that are having trouble with nVidia drivers.



I've made it simple. Just vote.
I would love to hear any comments or suggestions though.




Thanks!



EDIT:
Everything is back to default settings.
No overclocking and still had crashes.

You can't install 32-bit drivers in Vista x64.
I have had issues with Vista x64 and it may have to do with the Nvidia drivers, but I haven't used Vista enough to really discover the cause; I still run XP primarily.

Yep!
When reloading the driver it said right at the stop left "64 Bit"

I've also made sure I was using the latest BIOS.
The latest chipset drivers


I've also have another blue screen issue with Abit's uGuru.
You can check out the complete blue screen error code in my second post here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] w=0&nojs=0

Thanks for those who helped.



87 views and and two votes.
Left me at a 50/50 split too.

Thanks.

So far I am only playing COD4.
I haven't had much time to play with the windows drivers so we'll see. I also have a couple of demos loaded (UT and WIC) I Believe I did have a crash with UT.

I seem to be having two problems. Every once in a while Vista will just crash when I'm doing something as little as responding to an email or even a post like this. The blue screen error for that is usually Abit's uGuru.sys.

Now, it seems to crash when playing a game. Not every time though. Different blue screen error.
I've been monitoring my temps as well. Both the processor and GPU seem to be fine.

When it crashes from a game all I get from the windows "Problem reports and solutions" is a driver problem with no error codes or what driver is crashing.

As far as peripherals I'm using a Microsoft Naturalist/internet keyboard and an older Logitech wireless mouse. I did not install the drivers for either one. A Canon i950 printer.

I did recently install drivers and software for a WD My Book external HD. Although the HD is not plugged in right now.



I'm going to play COD with the windows drivers now and see what happens.

Funny thing though. I opened Solitaire and got a warning from Vista about my "generic" video card (a 8800GT) and not having hardware accelerator turned on. It said the game may run slow. It did. The hardware acceleration is on full. This is what Vista calls the best driver for my hardware?? I can't even play Solitaire with all the features.



How did you figure out your problem?
Process of elimination or did the BSOD codes help?

I haven't had any luck with the Abit forums or Abit's customer service with my uGuru.sys crash.

I have both 8800gt and vista 64...

I'm about 100% sure there are still bugs in vista 64 bit. Any new game that requires dx10 and your using vista 64 bit, you have to except crashes.

I can't play Hellgate:London on dx10 at all..but maybe thats b/c EA sucks at making games that work and only care about money.

Also experienced some crashing on The Orange Box and Bioshock.
Crysis hasn't crashed yet but I haven't gotten past the second stage as I have been playing Hellgate..on Dx9.

Nvidia's beta drivers may partly to blame as well.

O, and I had a 8800gts before and I have not noticed any increase or decrease in the crashing.

You're not an idiot. I have the same problems that you do. I was so excited to get rid of my HP and build a great computer but I made the mistake of installing Vista 64 bit. I get blue screen crashes all the time when I play games. I've tried everything.......trust me. Some fixes work for a few days, then it all starts again. I think I will wipe the drive and install XP. What a waste of time and money.

I am using the IP35 Pro, a BFG 8800 GT and vista 64 with no problems.

same here, i have an 8800GT & Vista 64 no problems, i even have my card overclocked, and it runs everything just fine.

The drivers are not installing correctly and are generating errors. Need some good drivers and a good control panel that works.

Sounds kinda like a ram issue. If it magically works now and didnt before you might have some bad sectors in your ram causing corrupted installations. Give your ram a shake down with memtest to rule it out.

Blue Screen is commonly related to memory...

I have q6600, asus maximus formula, 4 G, Vista Ultimate 64, 8800gt: No Issues...

ESD/Static:

Whenever i work with my HW i make sure i'm properly grounded...Make sure you don't accidentally ruin your gear from static-electricity.

Hardware commonly damage by ESD/EOS:

Memory Modules..(Blue Screen...PC Crash)
Video Card Memory (Artifacts )
HD Controllers...(Just plain dead drives...Just stop working)

Nobody lay a hand on my gear specially without proper grounding.

Hello guys

I have got this same problem with 8800 GT .

I just got this computer recently and i have that problem since the beginning.

When i play COD 4 and GoW screen freezes i can see many spots and monitor goes to sleep.

First i run Vista 32 bit and i had this problem, i came back to the shop saying that something is wrong. Them the guy says to me thats the problem of vista 32.

Then i installed Vista 64 bit and i still have that problem.

I am feed up of that, this gay is running of his own tests and saying to me that test are just fine... But i know when he would run a game would be different.

Vista report that it may be driver problem. But i have got latest one 169.28 ????

I dont know computers allot would you be able to help me ?

If that helps I have run 3D Mark 06 and didnt freeze.

AMD 6400+
Corsair 4 GB RAM
SAMSUNG 500 GB HD 501 LJ
8800 GT 1GB MSI
Motherboard Winfast 6150 M2MA

Please help