Ian C Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Oookay, I have a spanky new GeForce 7950GT, I think it's MSI brand. It's got some graphical glitches. Namely, dodgy red pixels will appear and shimmer away in games and on the windows desktop, and it seems to include but not be limited to a certain shade of purple. At first I thought it was a driver issue but horror of horrors, it displays my backdrop picture fine when the PC is first switched on. As the minutes pass though, more and more red pixels crop up So it could be a "warming up" issue. However, it only does it in 1600*900 or 1600*1200 modes. Every mode below that from 1280*1024 to 800*600 displays just fine, no matter how bad it gets in 1600*1200. Does this sound like a driver issue - bearing in mind it's the latest of only two driver sets as yet released by NVidia so the driver support is immature, or is it a dodgy board because it gets worse as it warms up (in which case why do lower resolutions work fine..?) Answers on a postcard. Has anyone else got one of these sorts of cards and if so, any issues, and what driver revision are you using? Oh, and the monitor is fine, it's been run at 1600*1200 for over a year. -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Geneb Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Faulty Memory bud or Maybe Core its faulty either way send it back we've had loads of them damn things pack up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I have a different nvidia card but i only get artifacts like that when i overclock the card. What sort of temps is the card getting to, i know of other model cards where the cooler isn't too secure and has shifted during transit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Sounds like its fooked fella, that how they go when something is wrong, the common name iludes me at this current time. By all means try a couple more drivers but im almost cirtain its hardware related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Artifarts, i mean artifacts, thats the puppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 i had the same problems a change of driver stopped it. Just make sure you clean your old drivers proporly a program like drivercleaner helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGav Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Which drivers are you using? Microsoft's, Nvidia's?, or MSI's? I have found the nvidia reference ones to be the best in all fairness, but then I don't do overclocking or anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 http://www.guru3d.com for all your GFX driver needs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 I use the NVidia driver packs, have done since v3.x.y.z. I've stuck to NVidia for years. It's a clean install of Windows so there are no issues with older drivers It's also not overclocked, I think that's asking for trouble Having to send it back would suck, as I have no spare video card to put in it's place! Dammit. I'd better line up the return sooner rather than later though. Thanks all -Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Maybe it's the RAM. You bought the same ram, cpu and mobo as me (bleedin' copy cat ) yet my ram detected correctly as CL4 and yours detected as CL5. I think we should get the PC's together for a part swapping party Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvershark44 Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 ITS ARTIFACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ive been overclocking pc's and graphics cards for years! Its 100% a heat issue caused by the card running at excessive temperatures. You get this mainly from overclocking but not nessessarily. Check your video card temps in the nvidia options. If its any more than 60 degrees C on full load, your gunna get artifacts on that card. Things to do ( assuming its not overclocked in any way) 1. Check what temperature its running on full load 2. If the temperatures are high, remove the card, and check for dust inside the fan and heatsink on the card. 3. Remove any dust with a can of compressed air, about £5 from pc world. 4. Check other cooling in your PC, as MSI cards have notoriously crap cooling you may need to angle extra fans towards it 5. If all else fails, its essentially fooked!! Finally, why did you buy a new card thats only direct X 9 compliant? When DX10 is out in january! When Crisis comes out next year youll be sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 My old 6800 ultra did this in BF2 and it turned out to be dodgy ram on the board that was caused by overheating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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