Ok so everything except my games work in vista. When I open up a game I get what it is seen in my attached picture below (that is a screenshot of world of warcraft). When I alt tab out of World of Warcraft I get the same jagged lines except they become the color of my desktop and are flashing so I have to restart my computer. Half Life 2 seems to be working, however counter strike source does not, I get the same jagged lines. HOWEVER, I am able to alt-tab out of counter strike most of the time so I was able to take a print screen of the jagged lines and lo and behold when I pasted the screen it was a perfect image of the counter strike menu (not the jagged lines).
I am at a loss here, I have installed the latest vista drivers from the nvidia website, the latest beta vista drivers for my sound card etc. Here are my specs:
Core 2 duo E6600
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
7900 GT
2 Gigs of corsair ram
Creative X-Fi sound card
Any help would be greatly appreciated, also if anyone needs more info/symptoms let me know.
it's probably the drivers. i understand u have the latest, but microsoft may have had u install a new vista update which couldve affected a driver. try contacting nvidia
Thanks for the replies, I tried changing the color scheme to 16 bit with no success. I also emailed evga tech support and will post a solution if they give a working one. Any more ideas?
Ok here is the response from EVGA tech support which I must say is not helpful at all:
Answered By Leonardo R (1/25/2007 10:36:39 AM): Vista only is supported by BETA drivers. Beta drivers arent perfected so you are going to experiance problems. Just wait for the fully supported drivers to come out. If they dont work then give us a call. THANK YOU EVGA Tech Support
How much memory has that card got? I am disappointed. I am not a games player but have read, so many times, from readers that Vista is very superior in game palying, and Nvidia is the best card! I use an ATI card, which is perfect but, as I said, I have not tried any graphic intensive games. Try going back into the device manage and update the graphics drivers, when you get the prompt, point at the XP drivers and install those. This has been known to work. (Which Vista Beta are you using - there have been huge improvements in the RTM)
i have an nvidia GeForce FX6600 (not the best but good enough) i tried the ms drivers but all my games were very dark, so when nvidia released the ones on 5th of jan 2007 i thought that was the end of all my gaming troubles.
No i was wrong, in fact the drivers wont even install, it says there is a file missing and wont continue. if anyone can help on this i would be grateful.
Seems like a pretty good card. I am in the ATi family but the specs look about the same. Maybe a reader can advise you about tweaking a little. What theme or background are you using, some of those are memory hoggers.?
( OK Mmacleod - lol)
I have tested a few games on x64 with nvidia's 97.46 drivers on a 7900 GT...
Halflife2 didn't work unless I inserted ran the followinf first: cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Valve\Steam>"
steam -applaunch 220 -32bit
setup the game, then it would allow me to load it normally.
CS:source works fine but there are solutions elsewhere for this if it doesn't.
strangly the halfluife 2 Deathmatch and the source goes straight in(before the above was performed)
Oblivion sadly I cannot get to run without hundreds of artifacts, if anyone has a solution for this it would be appreciated.
Kotor 2 also struggles badly under vista to the point I now only run it on XP x64.
All the warhammer games work fine, AVP and call of duty.
I have tried several other drivers but 97.46 seems to be the most stable at the moment.
If you are running x64 then expect games to be glitchy until x64 becomes popular enough for the patches/games to be compatable to come out.
For any interested I found a solution to the problem, at least with World of Warcraft. I had to manually edit the config file and start the game in windowed mode. Seems to work just fine now, I don't know what the problem was.
No my resolution is 1920 * 1200 and it works fine as long as the windowed mode option is on. I really don't know what the problem is, hopefully a driver update will resolve the issues I'm having with other games.
I got a same card and get the same thing the guy got that started this post but it only happens once i installed or got the nvidia update from microsoft. But if i take the driver off it work great in battlefield 2142 but start to lag a lot. So i guess that the 7900 gt nvidia driver is buggy. I am running 64 bit vista home prem edition, Asus A8n sli se, AMD athlon 2.4 ghz 2 gig ram. So if anyone can help how to sort this out then plz let me knpow ty.
I got a same card and get the same thing the guy got that started this post but it only happens once i installed or got the nvidia update from microsoft. But if i take the driver off it work great in battlefield 2142 but start to lag a lot. So i guess that the 7900 gt nvidia driver is buggy. I am running 64 bit vista home prem edition, Asus A8n sli se, AMD athlon 2.4 ghz 2 gig ram. So if anyone can help how to sort this out then plz let me knpow ty.
Vista, it seems, wont be able to play a lot of the old classics, not really that old either, i mean Call of Duty is way too dark, unreal Tournament again is too dark and unreal same issue, Fifa 2006 plays but very unstable. so i think for the time i am going to stay with XP. but then if your happy why change.
have you got a link, i have been to the nvidia website and clicked the link to beta drivers but the site is either down or the drivers have been removed, or it might just be my pc. but link would be great.
Ok so everything except my games work in vista. When I open up a game I get what it is seen in my attached picture below (that is a screenshot of world of warcraft). When I alt tab out of World of Warcraft I get the same jagged lines except they become the color of my desktop and are flashing so I have to restart my computer. Half Life 2 seems to be working, however counter strike source does not, I get the same jagged lines. HOWEVER, I am able to alt-tab out of counter strike most of the time so I was able to take a print screen of the jagged lines and lo and behold when I pasted the screen it was a perfect image of the counter strike menu (not the jagged lines).
I am at a loss here, I have installed the latest vista drivers from the nvidia website, the latest beta vista drivers for my sound card etc. Here are my specs:
Core 2 duo E6600
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
7900 GT
2 Gigs of corsair ram
Creative X-Fi sound card
Any help would be greatly appreciated, also if anyone needs more info/symptoms let me know.
Hi
Sorry to have to give you this link. www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/30/vista_games/
It seams that it is Vista's new security set up that is stopping the drivers working in some games,there is a way round it but you will loose the way vista protects your PC,the way to get round it is posted in one of Tim Sneath of Microsoft's secret blogs.when you install Vista Microsoft becomes the Administrator of your pc you need change that with the help of Tim Sneath .You will find it on google sorry I do not have a link.
Regards
Rex
You can get some older programs to run by simply right click the icon or program and setting it to run as administrator. Or going to properties -> compatibility mode -> Run as Administrator, or compatibility mode -> run in Windows (XP, 98 etc) compatibility mode.
You can get some older programs to run by simply right click the icon or program and setting it to run as administrator. Or going to properties -> compatibility mode -> Run as Administrator, or compatibility mode -> run in Windows (XP, 98 etc) compatibility mode.
the easy way is to turn off User Access Control, type MSCONFIG from the run command, and in the Startup, choose DISABLE UAC.
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