New Card; weird graphics
 

I bought a brand new XFX Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS the other day, installed and everything was going along fine until I loaded up SHIII and saw this mess:

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3...8652727qu9.jpg
Anyone have any idea what's going on?
I installed the drivers that came with the card and then ran the latest update from Nvidia's website. I'm running at 16X AF and 8xS AA.

Do other games work correctly? Have you tried a lower AF and AA setting? Did it work with the older driver?

Other games do the same thing. I haven't tried lower AF and AA settings that's next on the list. It didn't work with the older driver either, hence the upgrade. I'll have a play around and if nothing else works deinstall the drivers and reinstall with just the Nvidia update and if that don't work I'll take the card back and get another brand.

Ok, first try and disable AA and AF. If nothing helps reinstall/update DX9, maybe something broke it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Had this myself with games, still do, and I have a 6800. Its all to do with the motherboard you have, when I set the bios to auto or x8 agp aperture size I get these graphic anomilies..set it manually to x4 agp apeture size and this should cure it, I spent over three months with problems with VC, MoH Pac Assault etc and got nowhere till I was mucking around with the bios one day and happened to try changing these settings....hope this helps mate, I know how annoying it can be!

Thanks I'll give that a try if the AA and AF settings don't work.

Another thing is you willl see artifacting like that if the card is overheating.

I had those kinds of things showing up just before my last card bit the dust.So if the AA and AF settings dont help you may want to make sure that the card is cooling properly.

It's a brand new card so dust isn't a problem. I cleaned everything around it with compressed air when I did the install.

I checked the temp and the core says it is running at 73 degrees C. The slowdown threshold says it's 125 degrees C so I don't think it's heat, unless 73 is too hot.

When I had these troubles I replaced the card on three ocassions, also the company I had purchased it from sent it back to PNY for testing...hehe as you guess it came back clear...the only fix is to set the AGP appature size to x4...I still get these artifacts when in auto or x8 mod yet..just last week I thought I'd try it out again and Red Orchestra was identical to the above images lol...so back to x4 i went :)

Is that temperature when playing or when the card is idle...

If that is the temperature at idle that seems a bit hot to me in my experience.If that is when playing then you should be good.

My card is running at idle around 36C ambient and 45C-50C core temp.When playing it gets around 72 at most.

40c here running 3 fans 1 cpu
1 exhaust
1 intake

If you went to newer drivers other than the stock drivers that came with the card, did you disable the originals from the CD and delete them? Then loaded the new drivers you got from nVidia? That could be the problem too.


My son-in-law to be has the same card that he got for Christmas, and all is well with the stock CD drivers in MOH PA and other games. All he has is one exhaust fan in his HP computer so it's probably not heat related... just a guess on that.

Here a very good freeware utility for monitoring your computer's heat output....
http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php

If it is heat related, get an Antec PCI cooling fan and install it under you GFX card. That will help cool the card even more, tho it's a large fan. Thermaltake makes one too that's a bit smaller and RadioShack here has them. Check where you are.

I have the same card, the 7600 GS, PCI x16, with 256MB. I just leave the AA and AF settings to Auto, let the game define it. Never had any problems with any games...

I have two internal fans blowing air on the card.