Quake3World

put a gt6600 in my works machine yesterday. games run well enough but with noticeable artifacts, looks like thrashing/z-fighting (but isn't). most noticeable in menus, where you'll see things like the edges of the cursor image as jagged white blocks. video playback in the doom3 pda is choppy with jagged white lines running across the video window.

figured that it might be a driver thing so ignored it for the time-being, then tried to watch that 'get quaked 3' movie and it bsod'd - tried different videos/players and they all did the same thing, a bsod reporting a stop error for nv4_disp.

drivers are the ones that came with the card, left the machine to re-ghost this morning so i'm sure it's clean as a whistle s/w wise. same problem still occurs. tried latest drivers (release a couple of days ago), same problem still occurs.

rolled back, put another card in and it worked fine. put the gt6600 back in and video playback only works when hardware acceleration is disabled.

machine is:
msi k7n2 delta-L mobo
2x512mb pc3200 generic ram (that memtest is happy with)
2163MHz AMD Athlon XP cpu
antec 350w psu
..and the 6600gt

google says it might be a power supply thing, or an 'install some really old drivers' thing. can anyone give me a better place to start looking for answers than that? ideally, i don't want to use old drivers and i don't want to fuck around with other hardware in the machine.

get the newest drivers first before you try anyting else.

heh i looked but i missed it.

try disabling fastwrites either in the video properties or bios

also, look in the Nvidia Settings and disable WMV Acceloration.

cheers for the suggestions. tried them all with no joy, then had a spilf and installed one thing over another out of frustration - and it works

sometimes i wish computers would just make a loud buzzing sound for 5 minutes when you turn them on - then work - instead of spreading the irritation out.

4days wrote:cheers for the suggestions. tried them all with no joy, then had a spilf and installed one thing over another out of frustration - and it works

Yup, sometime the order still does matter, let's all praise the POS producers for them thinking their f** old dll's are what you need and bluntly replace the newer files. aka welcome to dll-hell

sometimes i wish computers would just make a loud buzzing sound for 5 minutes when you turn them on - then work - instead of spreading the irritation out.

untill you have to format and reinstall