Video Problems

tweeve2002

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Today I just got my 6600GT AGP version and intalled it.

I had a ASUS Geforce 4 TI 4200 and was using just the normal Nvidia drivers, I though that sence I was using the Nvidia drivers I would have no problem just upgrading the card by slaping in the new one. Well I put it in and windows has no problems a reset latter and everything looks great.

Go to play my first game, Far Cry and its running horrible. so I quit that and try UT2004 get in Blue Screen Drivers crash, I was running the 66 drivers from Nvidia with my geforce 4. So I decide to just format and start over, I need to anyway.

So I get the computer back up and running after the reformat, and install Far Cry again, now running the newest drivers from Nvidia, that I downloaded from the net. I get in the game Max out the setting like I have seen my friends do with their 9600's and the game proply crasheds, makes a shrill sound out of the speakers and the reset buttion wont make the video come back after the reboot. Had to hold the power and completely power off before I got video again. So I install UT2004, too see if I get the same problems, nope, went to the settings Maxed out the graphics and starting stomping the bots. Ran great. So I quit out and reinstall Far cry thinking that I messed something up nope Still wont work with what ever I try, slamed the graphics still wont work. So I decited to play UT again, this time though I went a tweeked a few setting that I like, but dont change anything grahicly, exept I changed the rez from 800x600 to 1024x768 which the card should be able to handle, my Geforce 4 did it with everything on normal. But as soon as I did that and went back out to the main menu and started picking my level to play the game crashed just like it did in Far Cry :(

So now I dont know what to do. Is it the Drivers, the Card? should I try reinstalling windows again?

Windows looks and runs great its just the games that crash.
 

tweeve2002

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alright found out what the problem was.

It was the PSU. with 6 hard drives and that monster of a video card my poor little antec 480 just couldnt keep up. I unlpuged 4 of the hard drives and everything works great. So now I am needing a new PSU.

How big do you guys think I should get?
I was thinking the PC Power and Cooling 850, that way when I upgrade I will still have plenty of watts left over.
 

monster64

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Not watts, amps. Get a dual/quad rail PSU so it can evenly distribute power to your hdds and vid card. Along the lines of 600W should do, make sure it either has 33A+ on the 12v rail or 18A per rail on a dual rail unit.
 

tweeve2002

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The problem that I was having was a power problem. The card works awsome, I was playing Far Cry multiplayer with just about maxed out graphics for several hours and no problems at all.