New GFX card seems worse than old one!!

[ddaddy]

I have just upgraded my GF5200 with a 6600, but now Call Of Duty 2 seems to look a lot worse, although the framerate is a bit higher.

It seems to be dropping polygons. The arm and gun look terible with holes in them.

The link below is a screenshot of me pressing the melee attack, just look at that hand and gun!!

I have the latest nvidia drivers, what could be the prob?

cheers

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd4/59807/shot0000.jpg

Heres another picture, look at the truck and arm, my old card was better than this!!

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd4/59807/shot0001.jpg

 

[Corporate Thug]

you are obviously artifacting. what are your temps like? try any other drivers??

 

[Zensal]

Ouch. Check your temps for sure. I've heard that 6600's can get hot real fast with stock cooling. Maybe get better ventilation for you case or get a third-party cooler for it, like a Zalman or an NV Silencer.

 

[flexy]

if you dont overclock: RMA, this card is defective.

 

[xtknight]

Type this in the console

r_lodbias -1000
r_lodscale 0
vid_restart

See if it helps. If not your card is artifacting.

Edit: lodscale 0 not lodscale 1

 

[ddaddy]

Hi, thanks for the replies guys.

I dont overclock at all.
I dont know how to find out the temperature of the gfx card, but my cpu temp is fine and I get the problem if I load the game up immediately after switching the pc on after it being off the whole night, so I doubt if temp is to blame.

I tried typing them commands into the console, but it still displayed the same problem.

I guess im gonna have to try and RMA the card.

cheers

 

[Acanthus]

That is severe artifacing as others have said, just RMA the graphics card. Or if you bought it in a store, exchange it.

 

[Powermoloch]

RMA the card....hot damn

 

[GOREGRINDER]

yikes,..you did uninstal the previous driver before you installed the 6600 yeah?

 

[NoStateofMind]

RMA

 

[ddaddy]

Yes, I uninstalled the old driver. I have emailed Sparkle and am waiting for a reply.

Thanks guys, I just hope they let me RMA it.

 

[ddaddy]

I have just had this reply back from activision, Is he right?? It worked with my older card. I have a sempron 2800 (Skt 754)

Hi,

Unfortunately, the Sempron processor is not supported to play this game. It does not have the necessary features required to play. The game supports Pentium 4 processors and Athlon XP processors of at least 1.4Ghz

 

[selfbuilt]

Originally posted by: ddaddy
I have just had this reply back from activision, Is he right?? It worked with my older card. I have a sempron 2800 (Skt 754)

Hi,

Unfortunately, the Sempron processor is not supported to play this game. It does not have the necessary features required to play. The game supports Pentium 4 processors and Athlon XP processors of at least 1.4Ghz

That's complete BS! I can't believe they let morons like that answer e-mails at Activision. A typical sempron will work fine because it is nothing more than re-badged Athlon XP. Besides, you have the higher-end S754 sempron, which is a slightly scaled down A64 (less cache, and potentially missing the A64 instruction set, depending on your version). Ignore the boob ... your graphics card is artifacting and needs to be RMAed. Good luck!

 

[michal1980]

bad video card, if stock and new.

or overheat. had that happen once fans inside pc died.

but wow never that bad

 

[ddaddy]

Ive had an RMA form from ITTools, which i guess is the company Sparkle use for there tech support.

I just wanted to clarify what activision said befor sending the card back.

I'll post it off tomorrow.

Thanks for the help guys

 

[ddaddy]

Damn, it gets worse.

When I put my old 5200 back in to return my faulty 6600, I get a Blue Screen of Death when windows starts up

I get the error

MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION
STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x80545FF0, 0xB2000010, 0x00010C0F)

Could my old card have gotten damaged since I took it out and put it back in?

Back to onboard graphics until my 6600 comes back

 

[beserker15]

that's probably a driver issue, boot to safe mode, uninstall the driver, and then restart.

 

[ddaddy]

Yeh I thought that too, I uninstalled the driver, deleted any nvidia files, but still BSoD.

It works fine in safe mode though.

Something else must be causing it, maybe another driver for something else. How can i find out what?

Thanks

 

[inveterate]

Umm driver cleaner 3

 

[Conky]

Run "Driver Cleaner 3" (google it) and then install fresh drivers. Should get your old card working. Your new card was definitely bum and needed to be RMA'd.

Do the Driver Cleaner 3 thing by following it's detailed instructions and you should be back to normal with the old card.

 

[ddaddy]

No luck im afraid

I have run driver cleaner 3 and driver cleaner pro but I still get the BSoD when i boot windows normally.

Ive uninstalled a lot of stuff to try and fix it.

The only driver related thing i cant seem to uninstall is
VIA Platform Device Manager
It has an IDE INF driver listed, but "NEXT" is shaded out so i cant uninstall it.

Is there another way to find the problem without formating?

cheers

 

[ddaddy]

Ive sorted it

It was a fluke, but I found the culprit

I forgot to press F8 to load safe mode, so as soon as windows started up, i tried to shut it down, and as it was shutting down a message popped up saying a program had crashed.

Now this program is nowhere in add/remove, so i used reg cleaner to remove it from the list of startup programs and my pc now works fine

And the culprit was..............................

a program called
SlowDownCPU
I think its an MSI program but I dont know where it came from.

Thanks for the help guys

 

[inveterate]

wtf,,, why would they name a program slow down cpu... SOUNDS like Virus Grrrr.. MSI u fiend

 

[ddaddy]

The RMA department have just emailed me saying that they tested the card on 4 machines and found no fault with it :-/
They did offer to send me out a replacement though, which I have accepted.
I just hope a replacement sorts my problem :-/

 

[darkdemyze]

You'll have to let us know how it turns out when you get it..

Maybe that program is what was messing the card up in the first place? :Q
Best of luck.