7900GT issues.. overheating? Or just a bad card? You be the judge

[MDesigner]

Check out the two DivX clips below.

http://www.samhulick.com/misc/OblivionBugs.avi
http://www.samhulick.com/misc/Luna.avi

Temp max'd around 67C on both of these. However, it should be noted that I ran Luna again today and the temp never got past 56C, and the artifacts still showed up.

Ideas/suggestions? RMA the thing back to eVGA?

 

[MDesigner]

I think I just ruled out temperature for sure.. I ran Oblivion, there were screwed up meshes all over the place.. and temp was again around the 55-58C range, never higher. I must have a bad card then? The drivers can't be bad.. otherwise everyone with the nVidia 84.21 drivers would be having probs.

 

[Rinaun]

Reinstall Drivers. Test another game. If it still has the same problems, its the card.

 

[MDesigner]

It happens in Oblivion and the nVidia Luna demo so far. I'll test Battle for Middle Earth II and see what happens.

Do I just reinstall the driver over the current one? or uninstall first, then reinstall?

 

[MDesigner]

Tested Splinter Cell Chaos Theory & BFME2.. both seemed fine. I figured maybe it's because Luna & Oblivion use some more intensive operations..but the Mad Mod Mike nVidia demo runs perfectly. I can't figure it out..

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: MDesigner
Tested Splinter Cell Chaos Theory & BFME2.. both seemed fine. I figured maybe it's because Luna & Oblivion use some more intensive operations..but the Mad Mod Mike nVidia demo runs perfectly. I can't figure it out..

Every time I had issues like that where it would happen in one game and no another it always was the card in the end (though most of the time the card had well worked off its debt to me). Sometimes it wasn't even though most intensive app either, but every time after a couple driver updates with no solution it would start screwing up in windows as well before totallly eating it.

 

[crazylegs]

BFME 2 is NOT at all GPU intensive in modern day terms... its created from the C&C Zero Hour engine (just been tweaked improved a little i think...) Oblivion is a much better test!

If a driver wipe (use Driver Cleaner)/ re-install does not help then i think it may be a bad card buddy

GL

 

[MDesigner]

Ahh, Driver Cleaner.. cool. Thanks man, I appreciate it. I'll clean this thing tonight & reinstall, and reboot, and see what happens. And if it's still screwy, time to RMA.

PS, just ran rthdribl for the first time.. **WOW**. Amazing.
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/