Let me start with my rig config:
P4 3.2GHz, ASUS P4S800D-Deluxe, XFX 6800GT, Creative Live! Value, 2G PC3200, 1 IDE HD, 1 DVD-ROM, 1 CD-RW, 400W PS. Dual FP1901/05 LCD's both through DVI (the reason I bought XFX).
The 6800GT was bought recently to replace a Ti4600. At first I only installed the latest 78.01 driver on top of whatever I was running with the Ti4600. After having random freezes in BF2 and 3DMark05, I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. After that every time when 3DMark05 is about to start a test, or when BF2 is about to enter a map (after loading done), the machine would freeze. So I downloaded RiverTuner, and turned fastwrites off.
That somewhat solved the freezing issue -- but not completely. It still freezes randomly. Sometimes after an hour-long session, sometimes a few minutes after a map starts. And occasionally it stutters. In the 3DMark05 freeware version, it can run through the first three tests, which are all 1024x768 ones with a score of 47xx, which is in the range from I saw on Tomshardware's VGA charts. But as soon as the fourth test, i.e., the 800x600 one, starts, the framerate would drop to 1 fps.
Have I got a defective card? Or there is some other tweaks I'm missing?
Thanks for reading the long post and any advice.
[edit:] when I am saying it "freezes", I mean it freezes up the whole machine for good, unlike the "freezes for 1 minute and then comes back" symptom some other people have got.
P4 3.2GHz, ASUS P4S800D-Deluxe, XFX 6800GT, Creative Live! Value, 2G PC3200, 1 IDE HD, 1 DVD-ROM, 1 CD-RW, 400W PS. Dual FP1901/05 LCD's both through DVI (the reason I bought XFX).
The 6800GT was bought recently to replace a Ti4600. At first I only installed the latest 78.01 driver on top of whatever I was running with the Ti4600. After having random freezes in BF2 and 3DMark05, I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. After that every time when 3DMark05 is about to start a test, or when BF2 is about to enter a map (after loading done), the machine would freeze. So I downloaded RiverTuner, and turned fastwrites off.
That somewhat solved the freezing issue -- but not completely. It still freezes randomly. Sometimes after an hour-long session, sometimes a few minutes after a map starts. And occasionally it stutters. In the 3DMark05 freeware version, it can run through the first three tests, which are all 1024x768 ones with a score of 47xx, which is in the range from I saw on Tomshardware's VGA charts. But as soon as the fourth test, i.e., the 800x600 one, starts, the framerate would drop to 1 fps.
Have I got a defective card? Or there is some other tweaks I'm missing?
Thanks for reading the long post and any advice.
[edit:] when I am saying it "freezes", I mean it freezes up the whole machine for good, unlike the "freezes for 1 minute and then comes back" symptom some other people have got.
