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Artefacts + crashing without overheating this time...
You've probably seen my 8800GTX saga, I had 2 cards from XFX and the fan didn't start on either of them, leading them to overheat and crash. I have since got one from Sparkle and things seemed to be going well until this.
I was playing Oblivion with RivaTuner running (had had a couple of artefacts/crashes before so I wanted to diagnose) and I started noticing some geometric artefacts - it was a series of parallel floating lines in a forest which slowly moved up and down, as though with the waving of a tree. I looked at RivaTuner (on my second monitor) and saw that the temperature was at 68 celsius (what the card had idled at prior to increasing the fan speed) so it looks as though it wasn't caused by overheating.
Attached is my RivaTuner log for reference. The peak in temperature is when it was occurring - I then quit the game.
What else could be causing this? I am using the 97.44 drivers - are there some others that I should try? If so, where would I get them? I hadn't noticed any on the nvidia drivers page of their site.
Edit: I just started up the game again and reloaded my save. I noticed that the artefacts were still there, exactly the same ones. I am using a couple of mods for the game, most notably Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul - perhaps this one is something to do with that? Regardless, I have still suffered other artefacts which have caused crashes - in Oblivion with the chequers appearing all over both my screens, and in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic with massive geometric artefacts.
You've probably seen my 8800GTX saga, I had 2 cards from XFX and the fan didn't start on either of them, leading them to overheat and crash. I have since got one from Sparkle and things seemed to be going well until this.
I was playing Oblivion with RivaTuner running (had had a couple of artefacts/crashes before so I wanted to diagnose) and I started noticing some geometric artefacts - it was a series of parallel floating lines in a forest which slowly moved up and down, as though with the waving of a tree. I looked at RivaTuner (on my second monitor) and saw that the temperature was at 68 celsius (what the card had idled at prior to increasing the fan speed) so it looks as though it wasn't caused by overheating.
Attached is my RivaTuner log for reference. The peak in temperature is when it was occurring - I then quit the game.
What else could be causing this? I am using the 97.44 drivers - are there some others that I should try? If so, where would I get them? I hadn't noticed any on the nvidia drivers page of their site.
Edit: I just started up the game again and reloaded my save. I noticed that the artefacts were still there, exactly the same ones. I am using a couple of mods for the game, most notably Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul - perhaps this one is something to do with that? Regardless, I have still suffered other artefacts which have caused crashes - in Oblivion with the chequers appearing all over both my screens, and in Dark Messiah of Might & Magic with massive geometric artefacts.
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