8800 GTS 640MB struggling with screen resolution?

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xerus`

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I recently upped my work station's monitors to 2x 1920 x 1200 displays. One is in portrait for ze codes, and the other is in landscape for ze arts. Since I've made this change, I've been having all sorts of problems with my video card... it seems to be running out of texture memory or something.

For example, sometimes Photoshop CS5 will have problems and say that the nvidia driver stopped responding and therefore it has to exit out of hardware acceleration mode for the canvases. Then sometimes when doing something like... working on my game project and watching flash video, the system will lock up and the screens will black out for a minute and then come back with the error that the driver stopped working, and windows recovered from some serious error, blah blah blah computers.

But this kinda stuff didn't start happening until I started using these new displays. Before this I was running two 1600 x 1200 monitors, and then two 1920 x 1080 monitors (both in landscape)

So is the video card just not able to keep up with the amount of pixels that my desktop is displaying now? I do have the right monitor in portrait mode and that makes me wonder if windows has to also worry about the blank space that's created by that. (like it had to render the whole rectangle that fits both the monitors in it and not just the pixels that the monitors show...)

TLDR: Can a 8800 GTS 640MB handle displaying two 1920 x 1200 monitors with one in portrait mode?

Anyway, I'm just looking for any insight or opinions on this, thanks! ;D
 
sounds like the cards going bad to me. unhooking the 2end one and try running a game and see if it craps out
 
I updated the drivers, which didn't seem to do anything. And the card has no issue running Starcraft 2 as far as I can tell.
 
Do you have another GPU laying around? I have had a Radeon 7000 in a similar configuration before (64MB PCI, w00t) and it worked fine.
 
You're not out of memory.

Sounds more like general driver instability or hardware failure; pretty sure that pre-Vista those error messages would have been BSODs.

Tried both in landscape? Still got those old monitors for some regression testing?
 
LuminaryJanitor said:
You're not out of memory.

Sounds more like general driver instability or hardware failure; pretty sure that pre-Vista those error messages would have been BSODs.

Tried both in landscape? Still got those old monitors for some regression testing?
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What kinda PSU are you using? Did you have any instability issues when you had a single monitor?
 
Thanks for all the replies ;o I think I figured it out... I rolled back the nvidia drivers to version 197 and all the problems have disappeared. For some reason my 8800GTS does not like any drivers beyond that version, and will freak the fuck out with anything recent. I updated my drivers to the very latest, and my monitors would just flash magenta and windows would lock up, so I rolled back to 197 and all my problems have disappeared.
 
Yeah, 450 is right, because today the 8800gts totally blew right the fuck up.

After a long time of no weird crashes and video errors, the card finally gave out completely today while watching a starcraft tournament live stream. The monitors blacked out after the entire screen turned to magenta noise, and when I rebooted my motherboard's splash screen and POST text (or whatever you call it) was sprinkled with random colored pixels, and windows crashed instantly with .. a rainbow screen of death.

I decided to call it. Time of death, 3:08pm, june 23rd, 2011. I took a trip to the local Fry's and picked up an evga 450 GTS and I'm now running that and everything... seems to be fine... *crosses fingers, and ducks behind bullet proof glass*
 
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