Weird Graphics error.

[Warfare]

I've gotten this error twice so far. My screen will stay as it is but it will have pink or purple rectangles of all shapes and sizes all over my screen. I can not move my mouse or do anything during this. When it happens again I will post a picture.




Also, I dont know if this belongs here or not.... When I was using WinXP and I played Call Of Duty World at war I would get around 240-250+ FPS and now I am getting just around 100 all my settings are on the highest like they were with no AA.

I have a 250GTS EVGA Superclocked.

 

[Maka]

Is your graphics card taking a dump maybe?

 

[johngalt]

It sounds like it - or at the very least it runs into errors. Which driver are you using for the 250?

 

[Warfare]

Latest.. I just got this card not even a week ago.

 

[johngalt]

Latest being the Win7 drivers or being the nVidia Vista drivers?

 

[Warfare]

I chose the Win7 drivers.. Im gonna try to find my program to remove everydriver then try again.. Ill post back.

 

[johngalt]

No. Try grabbing eVGA's Precision and increasing the fan speed to around 60-70 % - your SSC is probably running some high temps and you may not have adequate airflow into the case to keep it cool enough....

EVGA Precision 1.7 download from Guru3D.com

 

[Warfare]

No, that is not the problem... This only happened with Win7.. With my XP it works perfect and only gets to 55c-58c under load.



Right now idle my GPU is running at 33c

 

[johngalt]

Your *GPU* is idling at 33? unbelievable ....

 

[Warfare]

Sorry I was a bit tired all day yesterday.. Looking back at it yes that is very low for a GPU but this is what everest is reading me.. I even got a simmar reading when I had XP installed on the PC.

MY XP idle temp was 33-36c

my Windows7 idle is like 29c-35c

I know that this is really low but keep in mind that the 250 is a 9800GTX with a G92 cooler..

I also have a Scythe 66.37 CMF fan blowing on the card

 

[gabeforprez]

i'm having the same problem with the exact same card and the same drivers.
for now i'm trying the vista drivers instead, hoping that helps.

 

[garysgold]

Hello Gabeforprez,

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

Please keep us posted.

Enjoy,
Gary

 

[gabeforprez]

thanks for the welcome, gary.

previously, something as simple and not-graphic-intensive as opening the nvidia control panel would cause the error described above.

i have not had any more errors since switching to the vista drivers.

wonder what i'm missing out on, and hope they iron out this kink.

 

[garysgold]

I had a similar problem awhile back with the driver from MS. Going to nvidia for the 8.15.11.8171 driver. Mostly I think I'm missing all the funny colored squares on my screen.

Glad it's working for you.

Have fun.

Gary