8800GT Graphics Bug

[xantos12]

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.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Faulty card? Check your temps? All I can think of.

 

[xantos12]

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?

 

[xantos12]

I have a antec 900 so no fan problem

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Beats me... Are you overclocking?

 

[xantos12]

Not yet. I was going to do so tonight.Its not a error screen just flippy color lines bouncing about.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Update drivers? I had graphics corruption once because of it

 

[xantos12]

I got beta ones but don't work. I tried normal one but I get a error box basically saying its corrupt.

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

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

 

[homerdog]

If the card isn't faulty or overheating then it's probably drivers.

Here is a link to the latest beta driver for Vista64.

Hope that helps

Edit: Be sure to uninstall your old drivers before installing the new ones. It uninstalls just like any other program, I think it's listed as "NVIDIA Drivers" believe it or not.

 

[xantos12]

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

 

[itotallybelieveyou]

Try again from the homerdog's link

 

[xantos12]

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

 

[homerdog]

More posts as I was editing. Anyway make sure you uninstall your old driver first.

 

[xantos12]

Oh. Its installed too. Thanks I wll brb

 

[xantos12]

How do I uninstall driver from cd with card?

 

[homerdog]

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.

 

[xantos12]

ok i will do so in 15 min. I am overclocking now

 

[cruiseoveride]

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.

 

[boner]

change it

 

[xantos12]

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

 

[xantos12]

change cards?

 

[xantos12]

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

 

[homerdog]

Well it was worth a shot, but if updating the drivers didn't help I would say you have a bad card. One of the telltale signs of a faulty or overheating graphics card is artifacting, which is exactly what you are describing. Try underclocking the card and its memory with Rivatuner or Ntune. If that fixes it then you will need to RMA the card.

Best of luck.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

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.