6600GT and missing textures

When I first purchased the game, I would get the infamous BSOD at random points during the game (once during exiting - sent a bug report but there was no reply), along with "video lag" and the texture problem. An upgrade to 77.77 (from 77.72) fixed the BSOD problem.

The problem that still bothers me:


I did a search for it - this old thread gives some suggestions, all of which I've already tried before on my own.

A list of the things that I've tried since the beginning:

• Uninstalling and reinstalling the latest version of ForceWare from NVIDIA
• Reinstalling Windows
• Reinstalling Guild Wars
• Ripping off "el cheapo plastico, stock heatsinko" that came with the card and applying a fresh coat of Arctic Silver 5 because it was running at 70C
• Replacing the heatsink with a NV Silencer 6 with a fresher coat of Arctic Silver 5 - now runs at 40-50C

The game starts to lag and either it'll go away all on its own or all textures will turn white. Minimizing the game works sometimes; other times, enemies will randomly warp in from out of nowhere in front of my character for several seconds and then disappear again.

I'm stumped, really. Thinking that it's a problem with the game itself at this point, since I don't know what else could be wrong with my box. Other than needing two shiny new EVGA 7800GTX KO cards in black :o

Relevant system junk:
PNY GeForce 6600GT (PCIe, ForceWare 68.xx-77.77)
AMD Athlon64 3200+ (Venice)
OCZ PC-3200 Dual Channel sticks (2x512MB)
DFI LanParty UT SLI-DR (latest BIOS and nForce4 6.66)
Antec SP-2.0 500W

Alot of video issues can be resolved by using the driver cleaner program to remove any traces of the drivers - http://www.drivercleaner.net/ and then reinstall the most up-to-date driver for the adapter

do you get the same results at lower screen resolutions?

Even on a clean install of Windows? I think not.

Yes.

Simply stating that you reinstalled windows doesn't necessarily mean that you did a clean install. I didn't know you did a clean wipe and reinstall of windows. There are may people out there that simply would install over top of the current install and call that reinstall.

Even doing a clean install windows would possibly install the windows driver (if known) for your adapter thus possibly causing driver issues for the updated driver. It doesn't take long to use driver cleaner and it could very well fix your problem. If it doesn't nothing hurt.

roflmao pwned by PNY

just kidding.

my BFG does it too




the machine I play guild wars on had a fresh manual install of Windows XP and a fresh manual install of SP2. So there weren't any other drivers on the machine. Installed the Drivers for my BFG 8600GT OC and booted guild wars. About 10 minutes into playing this began happening. I have yet to find a reasonable solution other than running the game with 3x anti-aliasing rather than 4x.....sucks that I can't help any more. If I figure it out I'll be sure to let you know.

hmm other then updating the mother board drivers and possible check for any bios updates for your mother board....

I normally don't recomend this but you may want to give the current beta drivers a try from here80.40) http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/forum/...showtopic=7427

Rember if you ever deside to "downgrade" any drivers make sure you clean out the drivers, driver cleaner as listed above works well.

It's looking like 8x drivers are patching a lot of stuff. Normally I would say stick with the 77.77 drivers (unless you have 6500 or trying to do the 6600 in SLI then go with current 78.01 drivers).

Cheapest card available at the time, since I put the rest of the money into the CPU, board and memory. I'm not a gamer at heart.

Insufferable!

It doesn't. I took out all the video drivers, apparently.

Just for fun, I tried using Driver Cleaner before posting this. Yay for snow...

I've had an issue with driver cleaner pro wipping out all traces of any drivers (including windows built in one's in the past) then it requires detecting vga drivers -> redownloads default xp driver via windows update or you windows xp cd and then a reboot BEFORE I could install the clean new drivers. Generally speaking moving up in drivers is safe, downgrading causes the most problems, but either way any left over up or down can mess up things in some cases.

Mind you this was with an Ati Radeon 7000 on XP sp1... (I hate ati drivers...)

I had this same problem with an NVidia 5700, and it turned out to be a heat issue. I see that you've taken steps to minimize the heat on your card, but your temps are still higher than the temps I get on my ASUS 6600GT. You might try an extra cooler near your card, like Logisys's excellent, customizable Edge Fan Kit (which I no run in two of my three computers). The fan kit's only downfall is the fact that it takes up a PCI slot.