"Folk" wrote in message

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 03:27:52 GMT, One of Many
wrote:

McGrandpa wrote:
"One of Many" wrote in message


My new MSI 6800 will lock system up playing Everquest II. I have
tired over and underclocking card. I am currently using 71.84, but
have also tried tried 67.66. I have used Intel Desktop Control
Center to set the following settings to:


snipped for brevity

I should note that this card works fine in another box. Same
driver, but 540 proc on another 915 MB. The MSI 6600GT from that
box works fine on this box, but just a bit laggier, and some
textures seem to be missing. (Barely noticeable, and may be just
me)

Any ideas?


FWIW- I played Far Cry, Doom3 and IL2+AEP+PF on a FX5900, then a
Ti4600, then a 6800-128 in that order and with no problems. I
went one further, and bought a 6800GT. Now all my other games did
fine, TR: AoD, UT2004, Morrowind, Half-Life2. No problems with
them. But those first three? All kinds of problems. CTD's,
flashing textures, stuttering, etc. Uninstalling those three and
then re-installing them, allowing them to install with the 6800GT
in and they detected it, helped. Before reinstalling, IL2 wouldn't
even run with the 6800GT. Doom3 looked pretty bad, and was very
slow. Far Cry was hugely flashing textures, missing textures, and
CTD's. With the reinstall, an occasional flicker in Far Cry but
otherwise perfect. Doom3...well....it's stunning and very quick
now. I fly IL2 in perfect mode and it's beautiful.
Not all games work the same way. I can't explain why those three
games acted up and none of the others did.
Just thinking that maybe the same would help your problem. You
wouldn't think it could make that much difference. But for my 3
games, it did.
McG.


Well, I did uninstall with Driver Cleaner, and physicly took cards
out (I guess hard to swap without that step, heh) and didnt last 5
min before the lockup, and NV4_disp screen ( Will be switching
cards back, but will miss some detail. FWIW, Sony says the highest
settings arent supported by current technology yet, but even with
average, quality settings it looks awesome. Very high quality starts
having lag, and extreme quality (or whatever) looks great, but you
have a hard time moving.

Thanks

You misunderstood. McG was recommending you reinstall the *game*, not
the card.

Right, the card and drivers were fine. Had to be or those other DX9
games would also have choked. But for me, it was just those three games
that seemed to need to detect the 6800GT for some reason. Didn't matter
going from Ti4600 to FX5900 to 6800 plain. It DID matter a lot going to
the 6800GT.
McG.