I've started to play Neverwinter Nights 2 (I realize I'm late on the bandwagon...), but it's been wreaking havoc on my system. I didn't see any of these issues last month when playing Hellgate: London, which I would have imagined to be more GPU intensive. It also is happening with Mirrors Edge. It happens about 5 minutes in, so the games are unplayable. I haven't been playing much else, so I'm not sure if it's happening in others.
I initially thought it was the new GPU that I just purchased used (9800GTX), but it also happens with my old GPU (8800GT). Both are stock, not factory overclocked cards.
The issue is one of three things:
A. The game locks up and I can't alt-tab out, the audio plays the last second in a loop. Resolved by pressing the reset button to restart the computer. With NWN, it's either a black or dark grey screen, with mirrors edge it's a white screen.
B. The game shows graphics corruption (the sky shows bands of green, colors look inverted, etc) and I can alt-tab out to the desktop with no graphics corruption. This happened more when I had the side of my case off and I ran GPUz and it said the 8800GT was about 80°. If I let it sit at the desktop for a minute or two, the GPU would cool down and I didn't see any more corruption until it heated up again. This hasn't happened since I put the side of my case on and the GPU has been at about 70°.
C. This one happens most often. The game shows some graphics corruption and locks up, I alt-tab to the desktop and I see a baloon pop-up in the bottom right that says "display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". While at the desktop I start seeing a bunch of little dots everywhere. I took some pictures with my phone and uploaded them here. The first three pictures are with the 8800GT and the last two are from the 9800GTX.
I did some searching and found some posts on other forums, this one in particular from Major Geeks. It mentioned an update from microsoft that I installed, but it didn't resolve the issue.
Any pointers would be great. Thanks for looking, and thanks in advance for any suggestions. I do have a Radeon 3870 to test with, if needed, but I won't have that card very long so it wouldn't be a good long term solution.
System specs:
Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ stock
Gigabyte EP45-DS3R
4x2GB DDR2-800, 2 from A-Data and 2 from g.skill
500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA boot volume
625W Enermax Modu 82+
ECS 9800GTX
XFX 8800GT
I initially thought it was the new GPU that I just purchased used (9800GTX), but it also happens with my old GPU (8800GT). Both are stock, not factory overclocked cards.
The issue is one of three things:
A. The game locks up and I can't alt-tab out, the audio plays the last second in a loop. Resolved by pressing the reset button to restart the computer. With NWN, it's either a black or dark grey screen, with mirrors edge it's a white screen.
B. The game shows graphics corruption (the sky shows bands of green, colors look inverted, etc) and I can alt-tab out to the desktop with no graphics corruption. This happened more when I had the side of my case off and I ran GPUz and it said the 8800GT was about 80°. If I let it sit at the desktop for a minute or two, the GPU would cool down and I didn't see any more corruption until it heated up again. This hasn't happened since I put the side of my case on and the GPU has been at about 70°.
C. This one happens most often. The game shows some graphics corruption and locks up, I alt-tab to the desktop and I see a baloon pop-up in the bottom right that says "display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". While at the desktop I start seeing a bunch of little dots everywhere. I took some pictures with my phone and uploaded them here. The first three pictures are with the 8800GT and the last two are from the 9800GTX.
I did some searching and found some posts on other forums, this one in particular from Major Geeks. It mentioned an update from microsoft that I installed, but it didn't resolve the issue.
Any pointers would be great. Thanks for looking, and thanks in advance for any suggestions. I do have a Radeon 3870 to test with, if needed, but I won't have that card very long so it wouldn't be a good long term solution.
System specs:
Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ stock
Gigabyte EP45-DS3R
4x2GB DDR2-800, 2 from A-Data and 2 from g.skill
500GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA boot volume
625W Enermax Modu 82+
ECS 9800GTX
XFX 8800GT
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