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| Red Faction : [RED] Editing : my nVidia 6600GT is crap |
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| skvlad01 |
  Posted 12th Sep 2005 11:09am |
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i have finally found out why my box becomes unstable at playing games.
resently it has become so unstable it would not play any game without lockups and complete system crashes. i have tried updating the drivers, fomating and puting the new drivers on. and formating and puting the origanal drivers on and did that 3 times. it become even more unstable.
i removed the card and put in an old radion 9200SE and the computer was 100% stable again. it played a whole stack of games for 7.5 hours straight and it worked fine. the 6600gt would crash loading games or playint the first match and even crash just surfin the web for a couple of minuts. i have come to the conclusion that my 6600 has died. luckilly they are cheap now only $240 AU. I payed $400 for my dead 1. lol 6 months and all ready dead  |
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| skvlad01 |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 12:11pm |
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It's for the guys befor that were trying to help me with my computer freezing . |
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| ergeben |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 12:22pm |
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alrighty then  . though you probably shouldve posted it in whatever thread it was already in |
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| skvlad01 |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 12:27pm |
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it was about rf quiting out on me but then quickly turned to the subject of updating video card drivers and such. |
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| mad_ferrit |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 12:47pm |
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Must be a fault with your card... the 6600GT is a damn good card and won't do this under normal conditions. |
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Garner  |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 12:56pm |  |
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Similar story...
My GF4 Ti4200 ran ok.
My new GF6800 bluescreened like anything, random lockup the lot.
Fault?
The memory on the motherboard.
Nothing to do with the graphics card at all. Replaced the memory there and voila... card works perfectly stable.
I've come to the conclusion that the old GF4200 was never running fast enough to trouble the RAM... the new card however was taxing the rest of the system and causing the problem with the RAM to surface.
Before you write that card off its something to consider...
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Also the older graphics card will use less power than the 6600GT. If you've got 300W or less that'll be your reason right there... you've not got enough power to run your new card. The 6 month 'working period' would have been ok because PSU's can work harder for periods of time... but will cause permanent damage to themselves in the process eventually causing failure in your hardware such as power hungry graphics cards... |
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sobe  |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 9:42pm |
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Take a look at my specs here:
Computer 1 Details
Processor AMD Athlon XP+3000(oc'd @ 2.3GHz)
Memory (RAM) Kingston 512MB DDR400
Graphics Leadtek Nvidia GeForce 6600GT
OS WinXP Professional w/SP2
Harddrive(s) Maxtor 120GB
Monitor(s) SAMSUNG 997DF-T/T 19'' CRT Monitor
Soundcard Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer
Net Connection DSL @ 1.5MB/s
Other Details SAMSUNG DVD-ROM/CD-RW
What it doesn't say, is that I have the latest drivers for my vid card, plus, I have a Thermaltake 480Watt PSU. If your PSU can't hold the card...... then your screwed! lol Simply find a spare PSU around your house or so. And try some spare RAM as well..... It could be ANYTHING if you haven't tested all the possibilites. |
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| goober |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 10:01pm | |
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Computer 1
Processor P5
Memory (RAM) 560mb DDR
Graphics 128 mb Nividia GeForce
OS Windows XP Home
Harddrive(s) 80 gb maxtor
Monitor(s) Studioworks 700S
Soundcard 128 mb SoundBlaster
Net Connection 5120 MB
Other Details LG DVD player, LG CD writer/rewriter
dunno why just felt like doing that, my dad owns a computer company and oddly enough he made one of his customers a computer with a GeForce 6600GT graphics card, i asked him why, and he said its what him and everybody at his company use so there cant be anything wrong with the card
is it new? or is it older? if its new id say to where you got it, and hope its still under warrenty...  |
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| DVL-Blaze |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 10:26pm |
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i have the 6600 GT OC...just thought i'd mention that...and i've never had that problem...obly time it freezes is when i'm d/ling some files on LimeWire |
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| General_187 |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 10:56pm |
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Well put sobe! You have to have the power to run the stuff! Your old card probably didn't take enough power to cause problems. |
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| sobe |
Posted 12th Sep 2005 11:15pm |
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The Radeon cards 9200-9600XT do not need a large PSU, however, When you go for the 9800 series or above, that is when you will need a larger PSU, also, in Nvidia's case....... I dunno, my 6600GT is the 2nd Nvidia card I have owned... I love them  |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 13th Sep 2005 6:08am | |
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Since we are on the subject of drivers and such. I have to tell you that the latest nVidia drivers from 67.02 to 78.01 don't work on my PC for Red Faction. They work just fine for other games but not RED FACTION so I am using a much older driver(66.93).
So there....
BTW when I say they don't work, I mean they make my keyboard not want to respond. My player sometimes just keeps running. Who knows it might be the drivers for my Microsoft™ keyboard.  |
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| sobe |
Posted 13th Sep 2005 9:41pm |
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I have the latest drivers and have not experienced the issue Frank, could it somehow be that each card can act different to the same drivers? |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 13th Sep 2005 10:26pm | |
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| Quoting NoClanFrank | Since we are on the subject of drivers and such. I have to tell you that the latest nVidia drivers from 67.02 to 78.01 don't work on my PC for Red Faction. They work just fine for other games but not RED FACTION so I am using a much older driver(66.93).
So there....
BTW when I say they don't work, I mean they make my keyboard not want to respond. My player sometimes just keeps running. Who knows it might be the drivers for my Microsoft™ keyboard. |
That has been an old problem for me when I've neen using the GeForce2ti and 40.00+ drivers.
Keyboard just locked up for uncertain time...sometimes it was just for some seconds, sometimes minutes and sometimes until I hit the reset button.
Must have something to do with the framerate, noticed it when many particles been in my view, too. |
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| sobe |
Posted 13th Sep 2005 11:13pm |
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Yes, with my AOpen Nvidia GeForce 4 MX440, with the latest drivers installed, acted exactly that way. But once I got a Leadtek Nvidia GeForce 6600GT, latest drivers are miracle workers! lol |
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