Oblivion is killing my 6600gt!!!!!!

I got a crap xpertvision 6600gt 256mb pci-e and oblivion kills it ! rises temps trough the roof 66Celcius + and causes artifacts alll over the screen when playing oblivion!!!! HELP! I JUST BOUGHT THIS GAME AND ARRRG PLAAPLAPLA BLALBLALAA

running Forceware 84.25 beta

What can I say? My XFX 6600GT AGP is playing very nicely with Oblivion ... granted, the game auto-detected for "medium" settings, but I manually bumped the resolution to 1280x1024 and everything sure looks fine to me, without any framerate slowdowns whatsoever. The 6600 series is on the very specific list of cards Oblivion supports.

GET A NEW VIDEO CARD CUZ THAT ONE SUCKS

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What? You're NOT buying him the new card? 8O

Have you tried tweaking the .ini file??
Also a defrag of your hdd would help.

As also suggested, I'd check to make sure your cooler is properly, well, cooling your graphics card. It may be the HSF assembly failing to contact well enough to the GPU, such as might be caused if the thermal paste isn't all there properly.

Also, it might be a software problem, particularly if you're using some form of tweaking software; if your video card fan, for instance, shuts off during play, you can bet that the card will raise rapidly in temperature whilst you play, and eventually crash you out after a couple of minutes. For this test, I might actually simply play with the case open, and keep an eye on the fan itself; if it's not turning, that's your problem. Note that the fan isn't necessary if you're not playing 3D games; the small heatsink itself is enough for those cases.

sorry if I wasnt helpful but most games have min requirements and they are bull so you might want to step up to a 7600gt

Your temps are normal for a 6600GT. I play for hours on end at 70° C, with my eVGA 6600GT, without artifacts or any other problems. I have noticed problems like this with some driver versions, but my current 81.98 drivers are flawless for me (your mileage may vary)

You may want to try the newest 84.43 beta drivers from www.nzone.com, though I don't know if that's the problem or not. How are your other temperatures, such as CPU and PSU temps? One time when I was having artifact problems, it was my system memory (specifically, my DIMM slots had dust in them, and needed cleaned out) rather than gfx card causing my problems, but I had occasional bluescreens as well, when this happened.

Oh, and I agree totally with the others; 6600 isn't up to the beating that Oblivion and FEAR will put them through at higher graphics settings. Oblivion will strain a 6800GT, let alone a poor low-end card like a 6600GT (though if you're like me, it was all you could afford, and is pretty good, for the amount of money one has spent...)