8800GT, Vista, and COD4...

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Bryank930

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Just installed my new 8800GT and attempted to play COD4. About 2 min into the game, it freezes, and the sound loops. Does this for 30ish seconds, then its all back to normal for another 2 min, then it BSOD's and restarts before I could see what the blue screen was all about. When it restarted, Windows could not load the video driver for the card and I was stuck at 800x600. Uninstalled the NVidia drivers, ran driver cleaner, reinstalled drivers, reboot, all is good. When I go to play the game, the above happens again. I tried running the game in compatiblity mode for XP SP2, and just normally, both with the same effect. My 7900GS ran this game flawlessly. Nothing is overclocked, card's not overheating as it came with some zalman heatpipe heatsink on it from the factory. Eventually it pissed me off enough, and I went back to XP, but have yet to try it out.

Has anyone experienced anything like this??
 
Does it only crash when you are in CoD4 or does it do it in other games too.

If it is other games too then my first guess would be that it is overheating causing it to freeze then the GPU recovers and then it is still overheating and BSODs.
 
Chombo said:
Is your PSU getting enough power to the card?
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Should be, its an enermax 485W...

Only tried COD4. Anything else non-gaming is fine.

Yes, I plugged the PCI-E connector in...:rolleyes:

I'll pull the heatsink and apply some AS5 and see if that fixes it.
 
Bryank930 said:
Should be, its an enermax 485W...

Only tried COD4. Anything else non-gaming is fine.

Yes, I plugged the PCI-E connector in...:rolleyes:

I'll pull the heatsink and apply some AS5 and see if that fixes it.
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How hot is the card running?
 
Bryank930 said:
Should be, its an enermax 485W...

Only tried COD4. Anything else non-gaming is fine.

Yes, I plugged the PCI-E connector in...:rolleyes:

I'll pull the heatsink and apply some AS5 and see if that fixes it.
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Whats the power on the 12v rail?
 
im running vista x64 , 8800GT, and no problems with cod4 and my psu is 400W enermax liberty
 
Bryank930 said:
The only temp reading that I got was 41C at desktop/idle.



No, only the newest NVidia drivers from their site.



I'll check tonight.
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Yea, check that against the requirements for the card.

My guess is that when your card is under load the PSU isn't providing enough power to the card and the system crashes.
 
Ok, checked everything under windows XP idle, AtiTool artifact checker, and 3dmark06.

The card gets 12.10v under load, and max temp is 63*C. When I try to run 3dmark, it gets about 20 seconds into the first test, then it freezes
 
It could very easily be a RAM issue as well, try playing with just one DIMM installed and see what happens, if it BSODs then pull it and try another etc. You should also try another GPU intensive game or two and you may want to uninstall the game and reinstall it. I would also run scandisk to check for drive errors if nothing else pans out, just in case .
 
I would try different drivers. I had this problem and tried some different drivers, which fixed the problem. Idk if this driver works for everyone, but I use the 169.32 drivers from the xfx site for my 8800 gt.. Seems to have done the trick..
 
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