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Zhems Bund
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Posted - 2009.01.18 18:42:00 -
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I bought myself a EN8800GTX graphics card for Christmas 2007 as I thought it would work well with my HP XW6400 running Vista 64 and Eve Premium. How badly mistaken I was there........
I'm now on the seventh set of drivers (181.20) and to be fair things have now improved somewhat, they have stoped the BSOD issue, I now get a graphics driver failure which allows me to watch the screen alternate between my apps and a blank screen everytime I click on the mouse. No argument this is progress but I think that after a year I should have seen something more tangible that would allow me to play the game in more than 15 minute bursts.
Anyway, I've done all the bug reporting guff, I've spoken to the customer support teams and frankly I've lost the will to live Sooo...... anyone care to reccomend a Graphics card which they know works (well) with Eve Premium and Vista 64??
Many thanks.
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Lork Niffle
Gallente
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Posted - 2009.01.18 19:22:00 -
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Are you able to give any other information about your PC. CPU model/make Motherboard etc RAM amount. resolution you are playing at. Temperature your graphics or internal reaches. Are you playing windowed or fullscreen.
Try turning off background apps like P2P, msn, xfire and steam. Try turning off audio etc
Unistall all your old graphic drivers and then do a fresh install of teh latest 181.20 drivers.
A 6800 is a good card to play EVE so a 8800 is an even better card. |
fuxinos
Caldari
Guys 0f Sarcasm
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Posted - 2009.01.18 19:25:00 -
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8800 GTX is not that bad...
You do realize (or will now) that its freaking hard to remote diagnosis your PC without even having any kind of Informations except that your VidCard is over 1 year old and you use Vista.
8800 GTX is pretty much Power hungry i think.
How Strong is your Powersupply? Tried some Burnin tests (benchmarks etc) ?
Eve is pretty demanding on Hardware (noticeable when you try to login or stay docked :P ) so eve could "act" as burnintest showing you some Problems with the Hardware.
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JeanNick
Aliastra
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Posted - 2009.01.18 20:47:00 -
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Not sure it has to do with Vista, or the 8800GTX specifically...
For myself, I'm having bluescreens or total game freezes since I've installed NVIDIA 181.20 drivers. I did installed them on Vista 32 Ultimate. I then upgraded to Vista x64 Ultimate to profit from my 4Gb of ram. I've also installed a second GPU at the same time and reinstalled the 181.20 drivers. I'm still having the bluescreens and game freezes. It varies between 1 minute of play up to 15.
Current rig setup:
Dell XPS 730, 1k watt power supply
Intel Q9550, 4Gb DDR3 ram
2x 9800GX2 for Quad-SLI setup
Don't have the specs on the "Dell motherboard"... :/
I've also made a shortcut that would launch EVE while setting the CPU Affinity to use only 1 CPU (I read here it would help some folks having issues) but it's not helping here...
I suppose I'll have to revert to an older NVIDIA driver version... |
Elysarian
Minmatar
dudetruck corp
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Posted - 2009.01.19 12:08:00 -
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 Originally by: fuxinos
8800 GTX is not that bad...
You do realize (or will now) that its freaking hard to remote diagnosis your PC without even having any kind of Informations except that your VidCard is over 1 year old and you use Vista.
8800 GTX is pretty much Power hungry i think.
How Strong is your Powersupply? Tried some Burnin tests (benchmarks etc) ?
Eve is pretty demanding on Hardware (noticeable when you try to login or stay docked :P ) so eve could "act" as burnintest showing you some Problems with the Hardware.
^-- This basically...
I had a LOT of issues (bluescreens, graphical glitches etc) with my machine when I upgraded from a single 8800GT to SLI - turned out that my PSU was faulty, once replaced with a decent 650W unit I had no further problems.
On inspecting the old PSU after the swap I found that a number of the electrolytic capacitors had either burst or were badly swollen. |
Monti Reagan
Gallente
Altruism.
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Posted - 2009.01.19 14:58:00 -
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I just got a 2.2Ghz AMD 3500, 2gb of ram with dual (SLI) nVidia 6800s. Eve runs great on premium when I'm flying around, averaging at about 40-50 fps. But if I dock or try to stay docked for more than a few minutes I start to see white flashing on walls and sides of the dock, the white flashes turn into large blue and red boxes and if I don't close the client it crashes and then crashes me entire computer and I have to force reset it. I've tried playing with the settings and doing different things, which is making me crazy because nothing has worked. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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RaTTuS
BIG
Libertas Fidelitas
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Posted - 2009.01.19 14:59:00 -
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1) esc | display and graphics | advanced | set present interval = one
does that help
or
2) esc | audio and chat | Audio Enabled [disable]
do either of these work?
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BIG Lottery, BIG Deal, InEve
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fuxinos
Caldari
Guys 0f Sarcasm
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Posted - 2009.01.19 16:49:00 -
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Edited by: fuxinos on 19/01/2009 16:50:04
Originally by: Fuxinos
Eve is pretty demanding on Hardware (noticeable when you try to login or stay docked :P ) so eve could "act" as burnintest showing you some Problems with the Hardware.
Originally by: Monti Reagan
But if I dock or try to stay docked for more than a few minutes I start to see white flashing on walls and sides of the dock, the white flashes turn into large blue and red boxes and if I don't close the client it crashes and then crashes me entire computer and I have to force reset it
sounds perfectly to "heat related issue".. try cleaning your vidcard fan.. or better (if it doestn void your warrant) shut down pc, open it up, remove vidcard, properly clean the fan from dust. do it with your powersupply (just cleaning, dont take it apart) and your cpu fan.
should help you with the temp problem, or your fan is too weak/old/broken/other issue :)
try the programm speedfan or other monitoring tools and check your vidcard temperature (prefferable before cleaning so you can spot a difference) :)
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Zhems Bund
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Posted - 2009.01.19 21:42:00 -
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All,
Thank you for your replies:
Actually I DO know how freakin hard it is to diagnose issues like this....my first PC was actually a PC (yes an honest to goodness IBM PC with dual full height 5.25" 160KB floppies and no Hard drive), I've been in the IT game for 25 years now (CNE, MCNE, MCSE and CISSP) running large scale infrastructure programmes, I've been troubleshooting and dealing with this sort of stuff pretty much all of my working life..........
and you know what......
I missed it and you guys got it, yep it was the PSU. I pulled out two SATA drives & a DVD writer that wasn't being used and I've now been enjoying glorious EVE Premium crash free for three hours!!!
Yet another lesson humbly learnt on my part, kudos and my thanks to you all for your suggestions
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Monti Reagan
Gallente
Altruism.
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Posted - 2009.01.20 07:30:00 -
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Working fine after cleaning both graphics cards. Thanks. :]
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