Hey I just purchased a Gainward GeForce 3 Ti 200 Golden Sample powerpack card...
But for some reason at high resolutions (1024x768+) there are a lot of artifacts on
the screen. There are these brief flashes of only long horizontal black lines that occur
when I look at certain items on the screen, such as varying colors in a Quake 3 Arena
level. And these symptoms occur fiercely as I increase the resolution up to 1280 x 1024.
In fact, it gets so bad, for some reason, it crashes the system. Sometimes it's so bad that
the screen crushes into a box a quarter size of the screen into the center of the monitor
and everything begins turning into a massive jumble of broken images and lines. Then
everything freezes and the sound locks up.
This problem also occurs immediately when I enable FSAA. I've also had problems
even getting into the menu of Return to Castle Wolfeinstein. Immediately the fluctuating
and the crashes occur in the menu.
Just to let you know, Windows desktop runs perfectly. BTW, when these problems occurred, I formatted
and installed Windows XP (previously I had win2k). Surprisingly, these problems were SLIGHTLY alleviated, meaning
that the crashes occurred later and less frequently. Nevertheless, the problem is still there.
I have tried many drivers, including the ones supplied to me by Gainward. I've tried the
22.80s, the 21.83s, and several others. NONE of them vary in terms of symptoms.
I am wondering if my card is bad or something. Has anyone had the same problems?
I havn't overclocked the card or anything; it's doing this completely out of the box fresh and new.
THANKS!
But for some reason at high resolutions (1024x768+) there are a lot of artifacts on
the screen. There are these brief flashes of only long horizontal black lines that occur
when I look at certain items on the screen, such as varying colors in a Quake 3 Arena
level. And these symptoms occur fiercely as I increase the resolution up to 1280 x 1024.
In fact, it gets so bad, for some reason, it crashes the system. Sometimes it's so bad that
the screen crushes into a box a quarter size of the screen into the center of the monitor
and everything begins turning into a massive jumble of broken images and lines. Then
everything freezes and the sound locks up.
This problem also occurs immediately when I enable FSAA. I've also had problems
even getting into the menu of Return to Castle Wolfeinstein. Immediately the fluctuating
and the crashes occur in the menu.
Just to let you know, Windows desktop runs perfectly. BTW, when these problems occurred, I formatted
and installed Windows XP (previously I had win2k). Surprisingly, these problems were SLIGHTLY alleviated, meaning
that the crashes occurred later and less frequently. Nevertheless, the problem is still there.
I have tried many drivers, including the ones supplied to me by Gainward. I've tried the
22.80s, the 21.83s, and several others. NONE of them vary in terms of symptoms.
I am wondering if my card is bad or something. Has anyone had the same problems?
I havn't overclocked the card or anything; it's doing this completely out of the box fresh and new.
THANKS!