8800 GT and crysis problems

[mugana]

here is one interesting find. I tested the card at 600/1900 in crysis, and it played fine but i payed for the 650/1900 setting, not default clocks. Also, I set the card back to 650/1900 and i got a artifact followed by BSOD. In the BSOD, i saw the nv4_disp.dll error.

 

[daveybrat]

Originally posted by: mugana
here is one interesting find. I tested the card at 600/1900 in crysis, and it played fine but i payed for the 650/1900 setting, not default clocks. Also, I set the card back to 650/1900 and i got a artifact followed by BSOD. In the BSOD, i saw the nv4_disp.dll error.

Sounds like you got a bad card there. If it works by underclocking, then it's simply running beyond it's capacity. I'd send it back for a replacement.

 

[newschool]

Crash temp are usually in the 120C for graphic cards.
When I heard the 8800GT was going to be single-slot, I lol'ed. Such a good card with such a bad stock cooling solution.

 

[HitMaker]

I have more:

STALKER, making loops of my own benchmark, core over 88º... perfect without getting frozen
CoHeroes Oppossing forces, making loops of the benchmark, core over 86º... again peferct witough getting frozen
HL2 Ep 2, i played 20minutos and the core reached 91º... but ei, it didn't freeze!... perfect again

CRYSIS... still freezing... i also tried with the gpu fan at 70% and the core's temperature even been under 70º... it froze!

Damm....

 

[HitMaker]

Ok, 5 loops of the Crysis benchmark with de GPU fan at 100%... and it didn´t freeze... but it doesn´t make sense to me... why it handles STALKER en the other games (World in conflict too) over 85º and Crysis under 70º not?

 

[mugana]

this is not a temp issue with the G92 core. It is a problem with the video ram on the card. Lower it to stock of 1800mhz. Problems should go away.

 

[HitMaker]

Mine is already at stock speeds.. always, i didn´t overclock it yet xD

 

[mugana]

Then definitely RMA. I guess your card cannot run at default settings. Mine runs fine at 600/1800 but not when memory is at 1900. I am pretty sure the culprit is the video ram.

Try lowering the memory to 1600mhz. Does that do anything?

 

[HitMaker]

Ok, i am going to test it first at 1000Mhz, then i will go higher and see when it crashes...

Saludos , i mean thanks!

 

[HitMaker]

You were TOTALLY RIGHT!, i underclocked the gram to 1200Mhz, at perfect! 8 loops of Crysis' benchmark (core reached 89º all the time ) and it didn´t freeze

Now testing at 1600Mhz, i guess it should crashes over 1700Mhz, around 1750mhz, i guess

 

[mugana]

RMA the card anyway. So this is a video memory related issue. I hope my new card does not do the same thing.

 

[HitMaker]

Of course i am goint to RMA ... instead of that i am going to return it to the store and they will give me a new one without any RMA

The problem now is that here in SPAIN there are not many 8800GT in stores... xD

 

[ronnn]

Image problems with the 8800gt or trade performance.

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

To see if it is an overheating problem, try running rthdribl. If that doesn't overheat the card, nothing will.

 

[HitMaker]

Yep, but running rthdribl will only overheat core not the gram, i think so... so it won´t work at all.

There are more 8800GT's owners with gram artifact problems running Crysis, but instead of mine they have OCed cards and mine is just running at stock speeds.