Some 8800 cards, especially the 8800GTS 320MB have a texture memory error. When playing certain games, some textures are not removed from the graphics memory, and once the graphics memory is full, it will roll off on to the system memory and hard drive. This sucks.

Nvidia are working on a fix in both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Perhaps the Vista Performance and Rweliability pack due for release soon will fix the problem in Windows Vista?

In the meanwhile, you can use the Alt+Tab trick to refresh the texture memory. Don't even try Win+Tab.

That might explain this;


This is in Eve Online. In the pic I am currently in space (you can see my ship in the middle, it's a bit of a blob). The background should be a sort of blue space thing, not what it is. Also note all the crap round the side.

I take it they are going to fix this with drivers? I just checked the nVidia site and they released some new ones about 5 days ago, but they're just the WHQL version of the BETA ones I've already got, I'll use them anyway.

Thankfully it is a software problem, not a hardware problem. Driver fix should do it.

Oh good.

Do you think this could also explain some bluescreens I've been getting? Unfortunately they only stay for a moment before it resarts itself so I haven't been able to read them.

I don't know whether it could explain the bluescreens. Maybe the fact that you haven't formatted your system and reinstalled Windows XP in over a month could be the reason? Well, I'd always suggest a reformat at least once a year with Windows XP, just to keep things under control. For a gaming system, it shouldn't matter too much. You could buy some cheap external storage (500GB for £80) and backup everything first?

Nvidia said that they will release a new driver to fix this annoying bug in mid-September. See this Inquirer article for more information: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41351

Well I've only been getting this issue with my new card, so I suspect it could be related.

And you're wrong, it's in over 2 years.

/dies

Why's that?

Not reformatting for over 2 years is just plain insane!

Yeah, so?

All I can really advise is that you do it!

Isn't that the pack that you have to buy as an extra? If so, I wonder if it'll become a WUE lol



Ooh, now I want to see the screen after WinKey+Tabbing



:O I wonder how screwed and buggy it is

I think that it is an early release of a small component of SP1 for Vistula.

SP1 that will most likely fail due to it being a kernel upgrade lol

Just think of the things we have to look forward to in 2008...

Well it's quite buggy, but it runs alright the majority of the time. The other comp hasn't been formatted in longer, AFAIK.

2560x1600 is extreme PAIN for any graphics card to be honest. Compared to 1920x1200, the graphics card needs to fill twice the number of pixels per second. 2 GTS cards in SLI might do the trick, but one 8800GTS 640MB at 2560x1600 in Oblivion would be a bit jittery to say the least.

I think any card would struggle with that, unless you turn settings down. Probably texture quality for a start.

The 8800U performs almost 2x better than the 8800GTS at 2560x1600, see this article for more information: http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=8906&page=5

Ah, fair enough. I didn't they'd get that owned TBH.