any guesses? I can reinstall this one. NR2003 of course unaffected,
Rfactor is ok, I guess NSR is good too, but I will have to check.
Going to bed, thanks any advise...
I have that problem too. Same with GTR. I dropped AGP to 4x in BIOS and
for a day and a half now GTR's been solid. The framerate doesn't seem to
have suffered either. RBR's more an urge type game for me, so I've not
tried it at 4x yet.
Alan
Thanks for your thoughts & info... It surely makes me go hmmm, because my MB
is pre 8x agp... I assume it is a driver problem, yet of course, I would
have to do a few more tests, since the artifacts we soo bad with the older
drivers, that I couldn't see enough to drive, I didnt. I did look around
many menus and it didnt lock up. However latest Nvidia site drivers, do
lock this puppy up with looping sounds, and no way to get back to desktop to
see what the error might be, and I dont have to be 'driving' when this
happened, twice last night.
I was afraid I had a serious problem, like dislodged heatsink fan, (as
expressed at Anandtech here is a link to what I read) last paragraph on this
article page, and throughout article they touch on this. I hope Im ok, so
now 2nd item I 'guess' I have to wonder, if driver dont fix it that is, is
the Power-supply. I know I have a 430 watt I just bought about 16 months
ago when other one shot craps.
Chip check right after rebooting seems cool enough (seen through Nvidia's
setting applet, found in advanced settings of display properties).
Dammit. I had hear nothing about issues with these cards adn since they are
suppoed to be little sister to the 6800's what the hell.
Alan Le enlightened us with:
You have connected the extra molex 4-pin power supply to the 6600GT card,
haven't you?
Forgetting to connect that seems the most common issue in nvidia groups
regarding AGP 6600GT.
--
Mika Takala
I know about it from before I bought it, because when I was going to buy it
I kept thinking... "Surely I have a power plug left to do this..." However
the old 4600 I had, did NOT have the extra jack for the same (many such
cards did though) and would not over clock because it would whine about
under powered... I do have a nice Newer powersupply.
Anyway, let me tell you what all I did last night,
well 1st tell you that I think it is running RBR OK now... OK with the 71.89
nvidia's site drivers least with limited PC time last night (I hate summer
ya know, we're just tooo dang busy anymore)
Anyway, 1st thing I did... Still thinking it was driver issue with DX9 or
whatever, I launched 3dconfig for NR03, set it to Directx high res, 16 bit
(I think it was) loaded nascar totally expecting a crash right away, but it
ran just PEACHY. Some artifacts & stuff but it ran.
so no more DX theory... Since It ran and I was unsure exaclty which driver
I last had installed I re-downloaded the latest, installed them. But didnt
go back to nascar, I decided hmmm wonder what 32 bit would crash too in
RBR... Dont know why I tried 32 bit, it seems it could have been not really
anything I would have tried normally? Why was it that I ran in 1024x768,
BUT IN 16bit modes for the ti4600 thinking (reading)? I guess, I thought
that doin so gives the card a wee bit of elbo room to keep frames up, least
it did in NR03... so I did it every where by default. anyway, So I
switched it to 32 bit ran the quick rally until I wrecked... no problems
(course I was only on track for the total 2er something minutes again
figuring it would lock up before I wrecked ya know...) seems fine now?
So I went in and bumped the resolution to 1280x1024 (and color depth to
32bit, on everything I have installed... except the desktop of course, lil
woman doesnt like to squint.. I only got to play with everything for 45
minutes total, seems I should be ok enough to send in the rebate (you have
to cut the box serial number off) and put old card into the folk's machine
now...
I cant believe 16 v 32 bit fixed it, but seems to have.
Im going to test our the drivers from Guru3d as suggested by Ross, maybe
this weekend... Thanks Everyone!
Mika Takala enlightened us with:
> You have connected the extra molex 4-pin power supply to the 6600GT
> card, haven't you?
> Forgetting to connect that seems the most common issue in nvidia
> groups regarding AGP 6600GT.
