why is my Vista doing this

why is my Vista doing this (messing up)



ive been getting this for sometime. mostly starts when i enter a game. its really bugging me. i have to either restart or change the resolution to get it normal again... then it starts again when i enter another game.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

using 158.45 modified
BFG 7800GT

it happens when i try other drivers aswell

thanks

 

While we're on the subject of "why does vista do this?"

when i try to play most games my screen turns into flicker madness.
Basically its a bunch of scalines flipping down the screen usually when i try to change resolution or start the game. Alt-tabbing fixes it but the moment i try to run a game (as opposed to already in game and trying to play) the flickering starts again.
Vista's just got tons of surprises

 

Where did you get Forceware 158.54?

 

158.45 sorry

 

1. Are your temps ok? The card temps to be exact.
2. When did you start getting that kind of screen corruption? Or it was always like that?
3. Do all games give you the same problem?
4. Have you tried completely removing your driver, and reinstalling it from scratch? (Yeah, nvidia uninstaller should take care of that, but maybe it's not the case..). You can also try using the Guru3D (XDC) driver cleaner.
5. Do you have any Vista incompatible video driver tweaking utilities installed? Try removing them.

Good luck!

 

try messing with your clock settings a little bit. I have to overclock my memory by 10 mhz and all is well. Vista for some reason doesn't like the clock settings

 

Just removed all the possible stuff

rivatuner
ASUS boost n stuff

didnt seem to crash the game that time. but maybe that was a fluke. ill investigate more tomorrow

thanks for the help

 

Your thread title says "Vista is doing this". Is Vista your sole OS? If you still have XP or dual boot with it does it occur there as well?

 

http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31281&SearchTerms=vista

someone at evga mentioned this.
I'm going to try it.
*yay it works!

 

nope vista is the sole OS

 

hmmm, funny i get flashes that resemble those dots every once in a while in vista, that are only in the top left area of my monitor roughly around the my computer icon and the recycle bin icon. The same dots also appear in my openSuse 10.2 install, i've noticed everyonce in awhile. They do not appear in winxp pro sp2 though. The only difference I think is that Vista and Suse 10.2 are both 64bit and XP Pro is 32 bit. xp driver is 93.71, linux driver is current driver and vista is like 158.24 i think.

 

Those dots would be your video ram artifacting

 

Try this!

Try turning the core and mem 10mhz up and see what happends - it worked for me.

 

That looks like hardcore artifacts due to a over heating card . I wouldn't follow any advice to turn up any tempetures. Good chance your card has hit it's thermal limit.

 

it looks like that but its not... i'm sure its a driver issue. 10mhz from stock is hardly turning up the temp anyway.
It seems to work for people so if it doesn't work for you... you can always RMA to evga even when you modify the bios... they are good with that kinda stuff.

 

Well when it flickers on my end in vista 64 and linux 64 the temps are high 40's to low 50's. It doesn't happen in xp 32 for me though.

 

Windows vista is damaging your video card.

 

Oh god not you again..

 

run ati tool 3D test and see if it artifacts, simple as that, ohh and you have to disable driver signing to get ati tool working along with about 1000 other applications, grrrr. anyway that will prove temp/artifact theory

 

Rivtuner was good, it asked me whether I wanted to enable unsigned drivers and it just restarts if you click yes and then everything fully works.