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>  am wondering if anyone else has the 6600gt or 6600 with or without
> problems?  HELP.  I am about to be going to send it back I guess, try the
> 6800?

> I have tried 5 or more different drivers so far, each will lock up in RBR
> (except the really old drivers on the install CD) the ones from the CD it
> just has bad artifacts, really bad...

> This thing still will crash/lockup in RBR...  by the time I get er to reboot
> it Aint hot, Highest I have seen heat wise is 63C  from inside the display
> properties.  The PC is locking tight, looping sound for about 1 minute.
> half the time I cant even get out of the screen/game, even ctrl-alt-del
> doesn't get me out.  Half the time I can.  If it lets me out of game I try
> any other game (that uses direct x I assume?   anyway, the game I tried
> after I didn't have to reboot after the crash was, the Flat Out demo) and I
> get 'error cannot open display' or screen...  However I just installed that
> demo last night and ran several 'races' but I see it is 'for NVIDIA's so it
> could be not a good one to test with after the crash...  However, I think my
> 11 year old will like that game...  its fun but of course not great game...

> dunno what to do, Im not usually this easily stumped...  I don't want to
> mess around too long, you know trying to figure out if it is the card has a
> bad something onit, or SW problems.

> hopeless cause?

> TIA.

>>  am wondering if anyone else has the 6600gt or 6600 with or without
>> problems?  HELP.  I am about to be going to send it back I guess, try the
>> 6800?

>> I have tried 5 or more different drivers so far, each will lock up in RBR
>> (except the really old drivers on the install CD) the ones from the CD it
>> just has bad artifacts, really bad...

>> This thing still will crash/lockup in RBR...  by the time I get er to
> reboot
>> it Aint hot, Highest I have seen heat wise is 63C  from inside the
>> display
>> properties.  The PC is locking tight, looping sound for about 1 minute.
>> half the time I cant even get out of the screen/game, even ctrl-alt-del
>> doesn't get me out.  Half the time I can.  If it lets me out of game I
>> try
>> any other game (that uses direct x I assume?   anyway, the game I tried
>> after I didn't have to reboot after the crash was, the Flat Out demo) and
> I
>> get 'error cannot open display' or screen...  However I just installed
> that
>> demo last night and ran several 'races' but I see it is 'for NVIDIA's so
> it
>> could be not a good one to test with after the crash...  However, I think
> my
>> 11 year old will like that game...  its fun but of course not great
> game...

>> dunno what to do, Im not usually this easily stumped...  I don't want to
>> mess around too long, you know trying to figure out if it is the card has
> a
>> bad something onit, or SW problems.

>> hopeless cause?

>> TIA.

> FWIW, RBR has a habit of doing that to me too - hangs up with looping
> sound,
> and if you wait it'll generally unhang and you can exit the game.  Once it
> does it, the menus and everything tend to hang up, not just when driving -
> the screen even goes a bit dim for a few seconds.  No 6600 though; just an
> old Ti4400 (56.64 drivers).  What sound card are you running?  SB Audigy
> here (not V2).  Might be worth running dxdiag and turning down the HW
> acceleration of your sound card.  Been a while, but I seem to recall that
> helping with my RBR issues.

> SB

> > If you're getting looping sound with game freeze there's two things I
> > remember from RBR. Firstly try running the game .exe in high priority
mode
> > and secondly try setting the PCI latencey of your sound card to say 64
if
> > it's 32.

> > How do you do that I hear you  say, well go to
> > http://www.racesimcentral.net/;To
stop
> > games stuttering or freeze.doc"

> > --
> > Andi.

> Thanks Andi - some interesting discussions around about that PCI latency
> tool.  Based on those, I dropped my VGA latency setting down from 248 to
64.
> Set that way, RBR doesn't lockup anymore, even with HW sound accel on full
> (although the sound does still loop occasionally at the end of a stage).
No
> problems with any other game that I've seen so far.

> I'll try upping the sound card latency to 64 as you noted and see what
> happens.