8800GT Graphics Bug

I recently built a new pc. I won't bother with specs but, my directx 9 games have a wierd distortion with lines of multicolor light flipping around. Example- Medieval 2 total war and Roma Victor. COD4 worked fine though. Please Help. My card is a 8800gt SC 512mb. I have vista 64bit home premium.

Temperure is fine. Its not faulty. i had a similar problem long ago with a 6600. I am thinking some update I haven't seen will fixit. Any advice?

Beats me... Are you overclocking?

Update drivers? I had graphics corruption once because of it

Define tried. Downloaded then double clicked? Installed then the box?

I downloaded and installed and it stopped fast and said corrupt. I did it again.

I already did that one. No change though crysis is better now. I have a AMD X26000+ and Asus M2N32-SLI deluxe wireless. 600 watt PSU and 2 gigs ram. 200gig HD

Oh. Its installed too. Thanks I wll brb

Uninstall the old driver just like any other program. In Vista it goes:

Start, Computer, Uninstall or Change a Program, and scroll down to NVIDIA Drivers. Reboot and install new driver, then reboot again and you should be good to go.

haha,
Drivers will not introduce coloured lines into rendered models all of a sudden.

You've got a faulty card, the memory on the card might be corrupt.

I'm sorry.

Oh darn. are you sure. It wrks fine with other gamesand apps but but directx 9

Install did not fix it. I willpost a screen shot soon. I don't believe its faulty because dx10 games COD4 work fine.

Post a screen shot, because I want to know if it's texture corruption or something more ominous looking like obvious memory damage.

PS, when you clean out drivers always use driver cleaner pro or something similar, you want to get rid of all traces of the old before installing the new.

But at this point Screenshots would be best.

Also what do I do in ntune?

Also its not memory, its texture. I just underclocked it alot and same thing. Hopefully "I" can fix the tex without evga .

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I just built this computer and it would suck if I had to send it off. To top it off I just got my Fatal1ty mouse and keyboard. If it is fixable please let me know.

Ewww that looks pretty nasty. For the record my 8800GT runes M2:TW just fine at 700/950.

Why do my newer games run fine. quake wars and crysis and COD4 fine

Oblivion plays fine. Is it possible that its a problem tha should wait foraupdate etc. All the new games play perfect. I just beat COD4. I can ge a new one within the one year warrenty with evga if there is a problem. any advice?

bad card, send it back. i had the same problems back the in the TNT2 days.

Ok, lets say I don't play old games. Then I'm fine. However this exzact thing happened to me on a 6600 and it went away after a month or so due to a new driver. I have a 1 year replacemnt warrenty so I might wait for a driver or go ahead and send it off. Thanks! Also if you find any problem such as this please put it in the thread. i will probably send this off Monday.

This is a heat issue. THe fan on the 8800GT will idle at 29%. Driver issue, you need to use ntune or another program to increase teh fan speed. also check your temps. You have not posted any temp readings as far as My less than eye sight read down this thread. You should be around 50 degree celcius on idle and around 70 during gameplay.

Older games (dx9) seem to heat up a card more than the dx10. Thats why it seems to work with newer games and not the older ones. THe heat geenrated is less. If you dont fix it, the card will die unless its already too late.

Yeah it's not memory, but IMO it is something hardware as it doesn't look like a driver bug, but then again it doesn't look like anything I've seen before.

RMAing it is a good strategy, if it is heat, it doesn't look like a GPU heat issue to me so much as a heat issue in something like a capacitor or something else, but it doesn't look like an overheating GPU.