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Battle Field 2 Problem

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thisisglen

Limp Gawd
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I'm running SLI, and currently this is what i get playing BF2:

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This green flashes in a 'samurai pizza cats' sort of way. I had to take photo's of it because screenshots turn out normal. I tried switching the cards around but in all Split frame rendering games the bottom half is always the one that flashes.. In Alternate frame rendering the whole screen flashes in segments (see pictures) I also tried older drivers and the newest.. Motherboard is A8N-SLI with the newest BIOS and video cards are BGF 6600GT OC's running a 2405FPW at 1920x1200.. Though it also flashes green like this at lower resolutions too.. The green flashing doesn't occur when SLI is not enabled. Here's what an AFR game (swat 4) looks like:

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Has anyone seen this or a similar problem before? I've previously had no problems with SLI but i haven't run it in a few months because i usually run 3 screens using the 2 video cards because most games (up till now) didn't really need the extra speed.

Does this look like a hardware or software (drivers etc.) issue?

Please don't tell me to throw away my SLI and get a single good video card, not a valid solution. I want to fix the problem with the hardware i have.
 
What are your card's temps? It could be memory related... I really can't tell what it looks like, it could be driver or hardware, but if it were the drivers, you might would not even be able to run games. but that's all i know
 
best thing to do is check with new drivers. If you go thru 3 sets of drivers, and it all does it with every set, you'll know it's hardware.

I believe there a set of drivers that come with the game for nvidia cards. I would use those and see if it make a difference. Dont forget to use a driver wipe tool and reboot to VGA once before installing the new set. GL.
 
Yeah, i've gone through about 5 different driver from 66.* up to 77.* and the GPU temps are pretty normal i'd say.. Around about 60-70C under load

The green just started going blue instead now... go figure. This machine is starting to get on my nerves! I recon it's hardware, just thought i'd check to make sure there's no simple sollutions. Thanks guys
 
pull each card off SLI and run it in single mode. I think you will get the bad actor. My bet is it's just one card and not both.
 
Tried that out.. Neither have any problems.. both can run BF2 at 1920x1200 over 40FPS no problems.. That's why i'm afraid i'll take them back and the computer store will tell me that there isn't a problem with them and i'll be stuck with dud cards.. any other ideas?
 
check out the notes for your particular driver version, or a newer version of your drivers. you may see an errata invovling bf2
 
Got it to work! I just uninstalled every nvidia driver not just the video card ones.. and then cleaned the registry of everything nvidia'ish and installed them all again. Think it may have been the nforce4 drivers.. anyway thanks for your help
 
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