Intoccabile

Hello :) I hope you can help me with my problem because no matter how much I searched I couldn't find an answer.

To put it short, the story so far: my old Club3D 9600 stopped working, took it to the service, they replaced it with the current asus 6600TD. After I installed it, I tried PoP 3 and at the first fight, the system froze and the screen got covered with vertical lines of wierd colored symbols. These lines were still there even after a restart. I took it back and after a few days they gave it back to me saying it was fixed!? Again, I installed it and, full of hope, I tried Resident Evil 4... gasp, shock/horror! I got wierd texture problems with funny things going on. Tried Project Snowblind and I got this pretty picture attached to show. Things can get much, much worse belive me. I get bars of wierd textures all over the screen sometimes. Even "extensions" on the guns which don't disappear if I change it and then change it back!!! So this is the problem.

Stuff I tried: I have to admit I originally had a 300W no-name PSU. After I got it back the second time, I changed my PSU to a Fortron Blue Storm II 500W thinking this was the problem. Guess what? It didn't but now at least I have a decent PSU.

Drivers:tried the asus drivers for the card, nvidia latest, nvidia 93, nvidia 66 (these ones didn't install). I had more or less artifacts with each one of them. Usually the first time I load a game it works fine (although the attached picture was taken at a first load). The later ones go all wrong and I really don't know why. Is the card (still) defective? Am I doing something wrong? Can the drivers be the cause? Please, please help



P.S. I also got a nice effect in RE4 when the whole screen looked like it caught fire from the middle which expanded towards the edges... really interesting but sad nonetheless :((

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Houndog777

Hi,
You could download Driver Cleaner, a free application that will clean all the old Ati Radeon Graphics Drivers from your System.............
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745

Uninstall ALL video drivers and video card software from Add/Remove Programs, restart in Safe Mode and run Driver Cleaner, use the filters to get rid of both ATI Radeon and nVidia drivers.

Restart again; keep pressing F8 during start-up, the same method as getting to the Safe Mode options, but this time choose to start in VGA mode.
Install your 6600TD drivers.

Please also read Driver Cleaner instructions before use.

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Intoccabile

Tried that :( didn't work. Now I noticed that even in normal videos I get annoying random white pixels :(( Installed SmartDoctor, temp is around 40C...

Houndog777

Hi, sounds like a faulty card I'm afraid.
You could try testing your memory........
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/M...agnostic.shtml

http://www.memtest.org/#downiso

If it isn't your drivers or memory or the cpu overheating, it's the card itself; and if it was the memory you'd be getting errors doing simple windows tasks.

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Intoccabile

Hi, I managed to get rid of the pixels in videos. The problem was the asus "splendid" enhancer. After turning it off the video was as clear as allways. I don't have any problems in windows :( They appear only when i'm trying to play a game :( I noticed there aren't as many as before but maybe it's just luck.

Houndog777

Hi,
You could have a browse through the ASUS N6600TD Forum for similar issues...
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...Language=en-us

Though if it were me and if it was possible, I'd take it back to the shop.
You don't appear to be doing anything wrong in installation, and the behaviour is typical of a faulty card.

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Intoccabile

I'll have a look tomorrow through those topics. But I think i'm going to take it back... altought it'll be the second time ><.

Thank you very much for your time and help :)