tried the 71.89 they didn't work at all. then reinstalled the 78.01 but i forgot to uninstall the 71.89 so it wasn't clean but surprisingly it ran better then before. Now by better i mean it didn't crash or freeze. I got pretty regular (usually every second or two) little blips of artifacts/glitches little black and white angles and such, and my fps was jumping from 15fps to 70fps sometimes in the same spot without me doing anything. But as i said it was at least playable without freezing.
Now I did see that some people were having vid problems with the new patch on WoW and i did change a few things that might have contributed to it not freezing but I dont know.
A. my PSU I believe is the thermaltake 420w
+3.3V@30A; +5V@40A; -5V@0.3A; +12V@18A; -12V@0.8A; +5VSB@2A
B. Ill have to check the gpu heatsink and fan when i get back home.
Because there have been problems with the game for others with crashes and such im gonna try and load up another game and see if I still have problems. Ill update with that and the gpu heatsink and fan thing as well as if a different game had problems shortly.
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B. the heatsink is definately hot
C. the fan is running
So i tried it with a couple games, nba live 05 which i know isn't the biggest gpu stress test but it did run nice and smooth, better then my 4200 was running it.
Then i loaded up fantastic 4, same thing no problems. Then I loaded up Kotor 2 and just to put a little more stress on it set it to 1280x1024, 4x AA and AF, High texture pack and smooth shadows and it handled it just fine, no artifacts, no glitches, no nothing.
So I guess the problem lies with the game. Unless anyone has any other ideas I guess I should probably add my problem to the complaints list for those having video problems after the new patch on the WoW forums.