Issues with nVidia drivers

randruff · 07-11-2005, 06:54 PM

Whats up everyone? I just bought an AGP 6800Ultra and am so happy with it with the exception of a couple issues. The first, in battlefield 2, it will run fine for a short time and lag at random times (its not net connection, i dont have settings too high for card). A friend of mine who does our companies IT has had the same issue with his 6800GT. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Secondly, has anyone experienced issues with watching videos and the colors are washed out? I was able to find a temp fix for this but this is ridiculous. I just shelled out $418.00 for a graphics card, this thing should be giving me no problems with gaming, taking my tests at school, washing my car, and picking up the empty beer bottles from the night before.

All joking aside, has anyone else had issues with the latest nvidia drivers?

Dropkickmurphys · 07-11-2005, 07:43 PM

what is the spec of that card??

i have a raedeon x800se (128mb) and i also find that battlefield 2 lags a bit, i think its beucase it is a VERY power hungry game that needs a lot of power to run it!

randruff · 07-11-2005, 07:54 PM

Well, if you are asking for onboard ram, the card has 256mb GDDR3 RAM

alanuofm · 07-11-2005, 08:13 PM

what psu do you have? maybe you have a crappy psu and its not feeding it enough power?

randruff · 07-11-2005, 08:37 PM

At the moment im not sure what brand it is but i can tell you this....when i bought it about 9 months ago, i made sure it was a good and reputable psu. i had fried a couple psu's in one week (i found out i had a loose screw under my mobo) so i bought a good one. Im sure its not a power issue. Plus, I have my card on its own rail.

penguinrusty · 07-11-2005, 08:49 PM

What are your system specs?

**Archangel** · 07-12-2005, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dropkickmurphys

i have a raedeon x800se (128mb) and i also find that battlefield 2 lags a bit, i think its beucase it is a VERY power hungry game that needs a lot of power to run it!

indeed it is. a friend of mine had to overclock his x800se to run bf2 on the highest settings. and the minimum specs are a fx5700, wich is a pretty capable card, and a 2400+ cpu.
(ok, i dont really know why it runs in my system. but i was able o play it with a fx5200. (with everyhing on low ofcouse)

Edit: in the worst case, you would have to update the bios/firmware of the card to the newest version. (on battlefield 1942, i had no words on the menu buttons and such stuff. now it runns fine.)

kof2000 · 07-12-2005, 06:24 AM

maybe it needs the update patch to fix the BF2 memory leakage? maybe thats causing the lag?

**Archangel** · 07-12-2005, 12:55 PM

do you check your pc for spyware?

randruff · 07-12-2005, 04:10 PM

Thanks everyone for the input....yes my computer is spyware free....i have spyware blaster, adaware, spybot, and msas-beta. I am behind a router and never use internet explorer, firefox rocks. I just think there is some sort of issue with rendering something in bf2 with nvidias drivers. Every other game i play runs great. As stated above, a buddy of mine is having the same issues.

07-11-2005, 06:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
randruff Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 30 min south of iraq....oops....Detroit. Age: 26 Posts: 742	Issues with nVidia drivers Whats up everyone? I just bought an AGP 6800Ultra and am so happy with it with the exception of a couple issues. The first, in battlefield 2, it will run fine for a short time and lag at random times (its not net connection, i dont have settings too high for card). A friend of mine who does our companies IT has had the same issue with his 6800GT. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Secondly, has anyone experienced issues with watching videos and the colors are washed out? I was able to find a temp fix for this but this is ridiculous. I just shelled out $418.00 for a graphics card, this thing should be giving me no problems with gaming, taking my tests at school, washing my car, and picking up the empty beer bottles from the night before. All joking aside, has anyone else had issues with the latest nvidia drivers?

07-11-2005, 07:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dropkickmurphys Diamond Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Worthing, UK (Uni at Kent) Age: 18 Posts: 1,753	what is the spec of that card?? i have a raedeon x800se (128mb) and i also find that battlefield 2 lags a bit, i think its beucase it is a VERY power hungry game that needs a lot of power to run it! __________________ Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 2.4Ghz Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard 2GB 6400 DDR2 800mhz RAM 512Mb Geforce 8600GT 500GB Seagate 7,500RPM HDD Lite-on 20x DVD+RW OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU CoolerMaster Black Centurian 534 Case Samsung 19" 1440x900 SyncMaster 940BW monitor / Samsung 19" 1440x900 TV Dual Booting: Windows XP Proffessional SP2 / Windows Vista Business SP1

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07-11-2005, 07:54 PM	#3 (permalink)
randruff Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 30 min south of iraq....oops....Detroit. Age: 26 Posts: 742	Well, if you are asking for onboard ram, the card has 256mb GDDR3 RAM

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alanuofm Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,630	what psu do you have? maybe you have a crappy psu and its not feeding it enough power?

07-11-2005, 08:37 PM	#5 (permalink)
randruff Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 30 min south of iraq....oops....Detroit. Age: 26 Posts: 742	At the moment im not sure what brand it is but i can tell you this....when i bought it about 9 months ago, i made sure it was a good and reputable psu. i had fried a couple psu's in one week (i found out i had a loose screw under my mobo) so i bought a good one. Im sure its not a power issue. Plus, I have my card on its own rail.

07-12-2005, 04:10 PM	#10 (permalink)
randruff Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: 30 min south of iraq....oops....Detroit. Age: 26 Posts: 742	Thanks everyone for the input....yes my computer is spyware free....i have spyware blaster, adaware, spybot, and msas-beta. I am behind a router and never use internet explorer, firefox rocks. I just think there is some sort of issue with rendering something in bf2 with nvidias drivers. Every other game i play runs great. As stated above, a buddy of mine is having the same issues.

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