Tinker Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Have a buddy with a graphics issue. First off he went for a Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 mb. But could only locate PCIe drivers! So he now has a nvidia 7600GT (512mb). Running 1.5GB ram, and a new 600w power supply. single cpu 3.0ghz. Ghost recon and raven shield we have this: http://www.ghostrecon.net/fileman/users/tinker/ss_01.JPG http://www.ghostrecon.net/fileman/users/tinker/ss_02.JPG He has the latest driver and has ran the dxdiag tests with no problems. I`ve not seen this before and have no clues what it could be. Looking for ideas.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 Looks like overheating to me. Does he have the card correctly powered, does it need two seperate molex connections from seperate PSU rails? How's the case doing for dust/ventilation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Will check with him tonight. Googled it last night and most issues were the card overheating. I know it is a old machine being upgraded, but will have to get rest of specs first i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombat50 Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 A couple of more ideas: -Driver issue for vid card. Try rollingback to an earlier version. - The Farm map by Biro had a similar issue but running tree model detail on high solved it. Regards, wombat50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9MS Alterman Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 (edited) thx for posting Tink @ Rocky: have a tool running to check CPU/GPU temperature, all fine, card is correctly powered and recognized by my system case has had a good cleaning 2 weeks ago, enough fans to get air in @ wombat: i will try going back to an older driver, see if that works; tree model details are on the highest setting my specs are as follows: CPU: Athlon 3000+ MB: ASUS A7N8X-E deluxe RAM: 1.5 GB Video card: MSI NX 7600 GT 512 mb (AGP) Display: Philips 190S Power supply: 550w what bothers me is that GR worked perfect with my pretty old video card (geforce2, 5600) and now a bought a newer one for playing ArmA/ CoD 4 and even [GR] won´t work any help appreciated, i will keep trying different things thx Alt Edited August 29, 2008 by 9MS Alterman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 The only other thing I can think of is faulty RAM on the GPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHaired Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Is this a general problem or only in GR? Did you remove any old drivers, using DriverCleaner? Afterwards run ccleaner both the cleaning and the registry cleaning? As to the ATI card: if you haven't got a driver cd, you can let Windows Update find the driver for you. These guys have optimized ATI drivers: http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files and btw they're working with Nvidia (!) to transfer PhysX to Radeon cards but this has taken a while and seems to have fallen asleep. Let's know how you're doing. [NH]8R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9MS Alterman Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 @ [NH]8R: all done by the book, uninstalled all old drivers, ran Driver cleaner and Cab cleaner, installed new video card + drivers, updated drivers but still no luck...and this effects all games or 3D actions on my PC ATI card is gone back, changed for the MSI 7600 GT right now i´m back to my old GeForce FX 5700, runs with no problems, finally i can play GR and RvS again plan is to upgrade my PC at the end of the year or early next year, but this will be a complete PC rebuild(MB/CPU/RAM/videocard) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyHaired Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 Could be interesting to find out if the 7600 card works in another rig. Which drivers do you use for the 5700? I checked the Asus site for any BIOS updates but the only one they have is for an ATI 9700 card. Have you made any changes in the BIOS or is it set at default settings? Also thinking if your cpu runs optimally. One of the best AGP boards btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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