Evga geforce 5500 FX 3D corruption

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Mr.Strike

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I recently purchased an EVGA geforce 5500 FX. It runs great when running normal application and surfing the web, however when I run a game it flickers and makes the game impossible to play. I tried to get screenshots to post but oddly enough when I take a screenshot you cannot see the corruption. My system specs are as follows.


Enermax Whisper II 535W Power Supply
Asus A7M266
1.33GHz AMD Athlon Thunderbird
1GB RAM
120GB WD HD
40GB Maxtor HD
EMU 0404 Pro Audio Card
Plextor DVD Burner

The games I have tried are Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast and Unreal Tournament.
When I had my geforce 3 installed I did not have any problems with loading and playing the games. I did uninstall the drivers and installed the latest forceware drivers from the nVidia web site. I have turned all the quality settings to low just to see if it made a difference and it did not. My machine is not Overclocked at all.

Any ideas?
 
No ideas, but a FX 5500 is not much of an upgrade over a Geforce 3 Ti, which was a good card for its time.
 
Honestly I just got it for the 256MB of memory so I could run Vista. I am Currently running XP so I haven't put it to use yet. Mind you I am not a heavy gamer but from time to time I like to play the original UT.
 
The fan is running on the 5500? If so why not try the original drivers that came on the cd? Maybe there is a issue with the newer ones?!
 
Mr.Strike said:
Honestly I just got it for the 256MB of memory so I could run Vista. I am Currently running XP so I haven't put it to use yet. Mind you I am not a heavy gamer but from time to time I like to play the original UT.
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Don't even think about running Vista with those specs.
 
Dudeyourlame said:
I'll third not running Vista on that machine.:)
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Thank you for your advice guys. I was really just going to install it on a spare harddrive and see if I liked it. I have read that most people have chosen to stick with XP and I am sure that is something I will do as well. However Vista out of the way I still can't play games. I didn't have time to try the drivers from the CD last night so I will try that as soon as I get home today. Is there any other things that you guys can think of that I should try should the drivers from the disk not fix it,aside from sending the card back for something else?
 
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