NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS Driver Issue

Hi everyone i have the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS graphics card and recently i decided to upgrade the driver off of the nvidia website and this happened awhile ago so i cannot remember the driver i installed because i have updated to 190.38 hoping to solve the problem but it did not work.

This issue has been happening on all my games except for Guild Wars (idk why) but what this is, and ill try to get an SS up by tommorrow is the textures in the games i play such as Fallout 3 are either missing like random invisible patches on the ground where you can see the water under the map... or the textures are stretched or however you spell it from 1 object to another using the texture of the tree or whatever.

For example: I am walking along the wasteland in FO3 when I come across a Dead Tree, it seems a texture from this dead tree is being stretched from this tree to lets just say,another tree. It blocks view and looks very ugly and i can pass through it and shoot through it, but its just a random and extremly annoying texture bug or something and i have had enough of it and need help fixing it. ill try to be more clear if you cn't understand what im getting at.

It's strange that you say it doesn't happen in GW, because it sounds like a hardware problem with the card itself - probably bad RAM on the card.
One thing you can try is to get one of those driver sweeper type programs (I forget the names atm) and completely remove all bits & pieces of video card driver(s) you have now installed. Then re-install the latest drivers from nVidia.

Well i just hoped on fallout and got a few images to show you guys what is going wrong.. the first pic is the invisible patchs on my leg, the second is a telephone pole glitching, the third pic is grass glitching to another patch of grass and the 4th is a fence glitching

I think your card is overheating,

Here is a pic from a game where the GFX card was over heating

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/6...enshot5ks8.jpg

This next pic is a picture from a game running a 7600 GS which is overheating

http://i15.tinypic.com/62fr14k.jpg

You probably dont see this in GW, because its not as hard on the GFX as an FPS like Fallout 3.

So like it has been stated, either your card has bad ram, ( in which case it needs replaced, but if it was it would cause the issue in all games regardless of drivers ) so im putting it down to overheating, check all the heat sinks and fans for dust etc.

Fallout 3 has got to be brutal on a 7600 gs if you have any graphics settings turned up at least. Can you check the system temps while playing and post them here?

Ill try and post the temps while playing and i run the game on low so its not to hard.. And thanks for the answers ill look into the bad ram but i am hoping its just because of overheating that way its fixable...

sorry for double post but i am sure that its the overheating problem but if its not i need to know how you get bad ram on your graphics card becuase if that is the prob i need to know how and when i got it

RAM on the GFX is hard soldered into the GFX card itself, im not even sure if you could get replacement RAM for it, normally if the card is still under warranty you would just RMA it back to the place you got it, ( or in a shops case take it back ) and they should replace it for you.

i am a 100% sure its overheating... because i checked today and the records all summer and the heat+gay fan+lots of dust i can't remove is making this thing heat up to a whopping 40degrees celcius but when im leaving the computer idle it sits around 35-37 degrees but this is still brutal thanks for help

If the card is idling at around 35-40 when ingame its prob hitting 70 espically if its all clogged up.

Anyway glad you found the cause