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New Video Card problem? - Power Supply or Vista Drivers?

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Phlargo

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I just upgraded to a new 8800 GTS 320 and am running Vista Ultimate.

Here's the specs:
Core2Duo E6300 - running completely stable at 3.3 ghz
ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi/AP
2x1 gig Crucial Ballistix 6400 - running 2.25V
Antec Sonata II with the stock 450W PS.
Audigy X-Fi Extreme Music
Western Digital SATA WD500KS
Samsung 226BW (running at native 1680x1050)

My audio never skipped once with my old 7900GS. Titan Quest, while occasionally a lower framerate, never skipped or did anything strange. I pumped up the settings with the new video card and all of a sudden, I during busy action, game starts stuttering. Oblivion runs great.. until it feels like you hit a brick wall. Shouldn't I be putting away 1680x1050 on this card with these games with no hitches? Even during regular windows usage, Media player does the occasional skip when I hit another task pretty hard.

One thing that should be noted is that the case is running a little warm right now - processor cores idling about 40C - load at 55C (thank you Thermaltake Big Typhoon!). Graphics card idling at 69C - maxing out about 80C (with serious stress testing).

Am I dealing with funky 8800 drivers for Vista or a power supply insufficiency? Antec's supply indicates 15A and 17A on the two 12V rails - this should be plenty.. right? Can anyone suggest a further test or a solution?

Thanks for any help you can offer!
 
Also..

It would seem the sound skipping (more like a little click) happens even when I do a browse task in IE7 or open any programs. It makes for a rather unpleasant music listening experience ;-)
 
You mean as the old video card? Yeah.. but somewhat less frequently (I didn't do much testing - so it might be the same)
 
I had a problem with my Soundblaster X-Fi causing Artifacting on my 8800 Series cards, tried a GTX and GTS, different manufacturers cards, and had the same issue with both. See what happens if you try the on-board sound.
 
That's a very interesting experience, Syran.. I'm going to have to look more into that. Have you heard of anyone else experiencing that problem? Also... are you using XP or Vista?
 
There seems to be a fair amount of people commenting about it on the eVga forums, and I found out by doing a search. I am running XP on this particular machine, but have read of some problems on both XP and Vista machines. It's not an absolute, as many people are running the combination just fine. But if I put my sound card back in, it begins artifacting at the desktop level. Did a clean install of XP, and 2-3 different X-Fi and Nvidia drivers seeing if I could get them working together without any luck so far. I think it may also be a motherboard issue in combination with everything else. Will be trying my Audigy 2 shortly, or I may be switching out computers shortly anyway, for some other reasons that have nothing to do with problems of the computer variety.
 
I just tried pulling out the soundcard completely and switching to the onboard HD audio in vista to no avail. It might be a problem unique to Titan Quest now in the newest act in the expansion.

I'm not 100% convinced it's not the power supply yet.. so if anyone has any power supply experiences.. I'd like to know!

I'm now gonna jump in Oblivion to see how it acts with the sound card switch out.
 
I'm going for the next step. I'm reinstalling Windows XP to see if the situation is unique to Vista. If it's good in XP.. it may be worth it to hang in there for now.

Again - I'm still looking for PSU advocates 🙂
 
I had the same problem and fixed it (sortof). But only with media players.
I used Foobar2000 and installed the Kernal Streaming support component which can be found here http://www.foobar2000.org/components/index.html
in Foobar2000 File => Preferences => Playback => Output and change your Output device to "KS: [WHatver soundcard]"
the only problem is that you can't use anything that has sound while you are using the Foobar2000...you can't watch video (with sound).
 
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