xzz2343
22-01-2007, 06:29
I too (and my son) are frustrated with the freezing screens
I got so fed up (prior to joining this group) thatI upped the CPU from an AMD 3500+ to a 4800+ x2, added another GB of RAM (now 2GB dual channel) and added a second 7600GT pcie board.
Whether I run the system in SLi (which is not made use of as far as I can tell) or in single card mode, makes no difference.
I have over-clocked the system to run a bit quicker from 2400 -> 2800 MHz, but no better results.
Fortunately the system only freezes up, no hard crashes.
I was running 93.81 nvidia drivers, but rolled back to 93.71 (after a clean driver uninstall) thinking it may be because the drivers had not passed the Windows licensing? (whatever). nope. no difference.
Also, this is on a newly built system. It scores almost 6000 in 3dMark 2006 tests, which seems to come in about midway for systems with the same components. Also have no trouble running games like GTR2, Age of Empires 3, and even another Aspyr title, Gothic III.
I ran fraps during the game and it recorded fps as follows:
2007-01-21 22:34:36 - 1701
Frames: 152 - Time: 6515ms - Avg: 23.330 - Min: 1 - Max: 64
2007-01-21 22:36:01 - 1701
Frames: 228 - Time: 3562ms - Avg: 64.008 - Min: 63 - Max: 65
2007-01-21 22:38:12 - 1701
Frames: 305 - Time: 5141ms - Avg: 59.326 - Min: 54 - Max: 65
Though I never saw the '1' fps on the screen, I saw plenty of frozen screens.
appart from the '1' most of the time I saw in fps in the 50's and 60's, even when the animation froze but not the mouse or fps.
Someone mentioned earlier in this thread that it would be better to go with ATI, but I spent 4 years with an ATI All-in-Wonder card that worked ok, but never great and updates were few and far between, so since then nVidia and I've never been displeased with their cards, not even now.
If anyone comes up with a 'magic' tweek to the or 1701 files or BIOS to resolve, please let us all know.
I got so fed up (prior to joining this group) thatI upped the CPU from an AMD 3500+ to a 4800+ x2, added another GB of RAM (now 2GB dual channel) and added a second 7600GT pcie board.
Whether I run the system in SLi (which is not made use of as far as I can tell) or in single card mode, makes no difference.
I have over-clocked the system to run a bit quicker from 2400 -> 2800 MHz, but no better results.
Fortunately the system only freezes up, no hard crashes.
I was running 93.81 nvidia drivers, but rolled back to 93.71 (after a clean driver uninstall) thinking it may be because the drivers had not passed the Windows licensing? (whatever). nope. no difference.
Also, this is on a newly built system. It scores almost 6000 in 3dMark 2006 tests, which seems to come in about midway for systems with the same components. Also have no trouble running games like GTR2, Age of Empires 3, and even another Aspyr title, Gothic III.
I ran fraps during the game and it recorded fps as follows:
2007-01-21 22:34:36 - 1701
Frames: 152 - Time: 6515ms - Avg: 23.330 - Min: 1 - Max: 64
2007-01-21 22:36:01 - 1701
Frames: 228 - Time: 3562ms - Avg: 64.008 - Min: 63 - Max: 65
2007-01-21 22:38:12 - 1701
Frames: 305 - Time: 5141ms - Avg: 59.326 - Min: 54 - Max: 65
Though I never saw the '1' fps on the screen, I saw plenty of frozen screens.
appart from the '1' most of the time I saw in fps in the 50's and 60's, even when the animation froze but not the mouse or fps.
Someone mentioned earlier in this thread that it would be better to go with ATI, but I spent 4 years with an ATI All-in-Wonder card that worked ok, but never great and updates were few and far between, so since then nVidia and I've never been displeased with their cards, not even now.
If anyone comes up with a 'magic' tweek to the or 1701 files or BIOS to resolve, please let us all know.