Geforce 8800GT 512mb issues

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Ovreel

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Hey guys, I've been getting a lot of graphics bugs and driver errors with my EVGA 8800GT while playing warhammer. I just reformatted, and have the most recent drivers, and am running the fan at 80% speed.

Is there something I need to clean out in the card itself maybe? Or are there other explanations? Maybe the card is dying on me? (only 5 months old)
 
Is it just in Warhammer ? If you are getting glitches with just Warhammer, that might just be a driver thing. Try out new beta drivers and see if they help.

If you are however, seeing artifacts with other games, then the card may in fact having some problems. Did you overclock your card ? If so, downclock it back to stock speeds and see if the problems persist. While doing so, check your temps. Anything above 90º and especially above 100º, is not good, so you should increase your fan cycle. If nothing works and you still see graphical artifacts, then RMA the card.
 
Well, no it's not only in warhammer, in Team fortress two the performance would gradually decrease as well. Like I said I just reformatted so everything is running decent atm, although I haven't reinstalled TF2 yet.

When I first built the PC TF2 ran all settings on high w/o any problems, then like I said it just kind of gradually fell off. Warhammer was kind of a sudden thing. Ran fine, then one day it just got bad in certain places that were perfect before.
 
And how are your temps ? Nothing too close to 100º ?
 
What are your system specs? Maybe your PSU is taking a crap on you.
 
Specs are
Intel E2180@3.1 Ghz
EVGA 8800GT 512 MB
4gb a-data ram
Corsair TX750 PSU
Gigabyte P35 DS3L

Edit: Also running on vista ultimate x64

I'm not sure what my video card temps are getting to, what would be a good way to test it?
 
You could look in the Video Display Properties, it should
still be listed in the "advanced settings" tab.

Or get the EVGA Precision tool. You have to be a registered
member of the site, but if you registered your card online then
just log in!

http://www.evga.com/PRecision/
 
That, or Rivatuner. I believe the EVGA Precision tool is based on Rivatuner but this is only what I've heard and I don't have much experience with it.
 
yea, I read here on another thread that it was written by the same guy that did RivaTuner.
EVGA commissioned him specifficly for that purpose. I like RivaTuner, but it does have
alot of features that I never really took advantage of. EVGA Precision is so "stupid
proof" that it amazes me... And its compatible with the Logitech G15 keyboard that
my roommate has, which I think is spiffy and am totally getting one when the price drops
again. I already bought one $50 keyboard this year, I'd rather wait till it breaks before getting
a new one. :D
 
I've had the card for over 90 days and I don't have the box anymore, so I can't register the video card anymore, unless the actual card has the serial number.. which it probably should huh.

I have Rivatuner though, I'll have to play around with it to find out how to get the temps again, been a while since I've used it
 
Yea, there should be a serial number label on the back, you really should
get in the habit of registering products right away. Some OEM's warranty
expires if you don't register within a certain timeframe(like 30 days on some
of them!).

I'm pretty sure that RivaTuner has a temp monitor built in, and you do not
have to have an EVGA card registered to create a profile on their webpage.
So anyone can pretty much download Precision, my roommate is using it
on his XFX 8800GTS 512mb just for the temp monitor.
 
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