Well, looks like you guys were right on the money. I dropped the vid card's memory slowly until the 2D artifacts began to disappear and wouldn't you know, at 66% of stock frequency, all 2D artifacts went away. And Oblivion plays like it used to. Looks like a new vid card is in order. Thanks to the collective! Hehe, gives me an excuse to upgrade...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Video Card Problems: Just "Going Bad"? Richard, About EVGA cards: I have some 10 months experience with them. My cards (4) are not the heavy metal cards you guys are discussing. I can not afford them. I have FX5500 cards now under power in both PCI and AGP. All of them seem to work well with either the EVGA driver set, or, the nVidia driver set. I have had to RMA one of the cards that arrived apparently DOA, but did not find it for 10 months (it was a shelf spare). EVGA did the RMA w/o trouble. Can not speak to EVGA's place in the stack of makers - maybe middle to lower. I am an old Gainward fan, and, am still pissed they moved to Europe! Best, Duncan At 17:36 02/06/2008 -0400, you wrote: >Thanks for all the replies. My 939 chip was also a dual core, so I had >all the patches and stuff applied prior to the upgrade. Everyone's >comments are leading to what I was thinking. I guess I will go look >for a new video card. Maybe a 8800GT? They are around $200 now. > >I will try and underclock it and see if some of the symptoms improve. >I've never overclocked this thing so it can't be that. Anyone have >experience with EVGA cards? First of their products I have owned... > >On 2/6/08, James Maki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Richard Kim > > > > > I think my video card might be going bad, but I don't know as > > > I've never > > > experienced this before. > > > > > Symptoms: I see little off-color pixels during 2D (desktop, > > > word processing, > > > web browsing). > > > > > Also, Oblivion used to run perfectly for hours > > > on end, but it > > > has progressively gotten worse where artifacts show up just > > > 2-3 minutes into > > > the game, then it crashes. > > > > > Does this sound like a video card just "going bad"? Anything > > > else I should > > > be looking for to pinpoint the problem better? Any suggested actions I > > > should try before dropping come $$$ on a new card? Please > > > help. Thanks. > > > > > > -Rich > > > > > > > Rich, > > > > I had almost exactly the same problem occur. It seemed to start when I > > upgraded from a single core to dual core 939 cpu. I had the "artifacts" you > > refer to and had problems with Civ IV crashing (about the only game I > play). > > I was able to make things somewhat better by underclocking the video card, > > but was not able to solve the problem except by replacing the video card. I > > also noticed that the problem got worse if I overclocked the video card. > > Once the card was replaced, the artifacts disappeared and Civ IV runs > > without crashing the system. My online research pointed to bad video > ram, as > > Thane Sherrington mentioned. No guarantee, but a new video card solved the > > problem for me. > > > > So, try underclocking and overclocking and see if that changes the problem > > at all. But I would be thinking about a new video card. > > > > Jim > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >
