Enkilil
Minmatar
Carbon Moon Corporation
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Posted - 2008.04.14 11:32:00 -
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chalk me up for a dead Nvidia and a ton of other hardware problems, not video related.
Of course it's heat, but it's still pretty silly when you have to cool off your gpus for a bit by playing Crysis or Quake 4 in Ultra resolution for awhile.
I know they're not the same game, but by comparison the game really doesn't look 'that' great compared to the damage done to the hardware. That's just shoddy programming.
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Enkilil
Minmatar
Carbon Moon Corporation
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Posted - 2008.04.15 16:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Delirium Dragonhead
Edited by: Delirium Dragonhead on 14/04/2008 16:34:41
I've been reading most of the posts concerning problems, with whiteouts, crashes, artifacts etc while playing EVE. I have a GeForce 8800GTS 640 and although it runs all games impeccably, even oveclocked, I had similar issues while playing EVE. I've managed to iron out all theses problems in the following manner, been running EVE flawlessly for the last couple of weeks.
What you'll need:
Driver Cleaner Pro
CCleaner
Uninstall your drivers through the Control pannel, or with CCleaner using the Tool tab. Once completed, reboot your PC in safe Mode (Press F8 While the PC is booting, this should bring you to the "Windows Advanced Options Menu". Choose "Safe Mode" using the arrow keys, Or Shift+arrow keys for some wireless Keyboards.)
Once in safe mode, run Driver Cleaner Pro By choosing the required driver to be cleaned. The software will remove most redundant driver elements still remaining on your PC. Once completed, use CCleaner's cleaning tool and registry cleaner with the default options. This will remove anything Driver Cleaner has left behind. Be warned however that if you run CCleaner with default options, all the pretyped urls on your web browser will disappear. If you do not wish this, deselect "Recently Typed URL" from the Internet Explorer option. If you use Firefox, these options can be found under the "Applications" tab.
Once the cleaning is done, install the new drivers and reboot into normal mode.
This should iron out most problems. But be advised that this is, by no means, a miracle solution to absolutly all problems. It may however help some of you as it did me.
You may also want to get Riva Tuner for NVidia vid cards and follow These instructionsto allow the software to automatically increase your video card's fan speeds as temperatures rise.
Good luck
This is extremely informative and should be in a sticky somewhere.
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