Graphic Cards EVGA 8800 GTS 640mb Problems

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Dinesh_Malhotra

Dinesh_Malhotra

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This is very sad to say so but i got to !

The so called beast from NVIDIA is nothing but just a marketing gimmick.
i played several games with it in past 2 days .... and in all games i expirienced unexpected LAGGING.

Video quality is great but that LAG problem makes it more worse.

2 drivers i have tried on till now:
a:162.22 .. very problematic. even cutscenes hang
b:163.33... Ok for low and LOW-Medium Settings ( ie. anti aliasing off or on very low lever .. and same goes for multisampling.)

never before recieving the real product i ever though it will be such a bad thing to posses.

at the resolution of 1440*900 i expected it to play OLD as well as NEW games flawlessly at ULTRA (was just thinking if it could ) and HIGH ( but atleast this shud have worked).

even on older games like Need for speed carbon, GRAW 1 , Medal of Honour Pacific Assault,UEFA 2007 it was not even comparable to my friends 7900gs.
let alone other 7 series high end models.

New Games like DIRT, GRAW2, Rainbow six vegas, Stalker it SUCKs !

Image quality is VERY VERY GOOD.
but as i hover my mouse here and there, and the cinematic go under changes i can see serious lag between each and every 4-5 seconds.
is there something i can do to get it solved !!

is the issue from my side ?
or is the Graphic card is Faulty?
what solution can u offer?

i had saved this money from a long time , but today i feel it is just wasted.
it took me 12months to pile up that amount.

Please suggest me something to get this thing DONE.

even my Friends are mocking :P sayin " itna mehenga card aur itna ganda lagg, isse accha toh hamara 7900gs hai "

plz suggest me some measures to correct this thing !
 
check ur PSU.. make sure u have assigned dedicated power channel to your GPU. you dont have to share power channel with other devices which is connected to GPU.
 
nVidiaBeast said:
check ur PSU.. make sure u have assigned dedicated power channel to your GPU. you dont have to share power channel with other devices which is connected to GPU.
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i have connected the one of the 2 GPU connectors present in the PSU
 
IM NO gfx guru.. but i think there is a problem with the card it self...

can u see any artifacts as such..

one thing u can try is uninstall everything .. use driver cleaner to erase all nvidia drivers etc... remove the card (not totaly necesary).. put it back inside

then reinstall everything and try...

cause a lot of the members are using the 8800gts 640mb of different brands ..and no ones complaint as such...

so i guess there is definetly something wrong with our card..

also try installing the latest drivers frm nvidia...
 
Make sure there is either a dedicated gpu power pin connected to it, or if you using a molex from line of molexes, none in that line of molexes is connected to any other devices. And yeah you have to connect 2 molexes to the 6pin gpu to 2x 3pin molex converter.

It might be a driver issue too...try reverting back to some stable driver release like 157.xx or something..
 
GPU temp idles around 55-60 at normal status and goes about 65-75 at load.

No artifacts can be seen. the image quality is immensely AWESOME.

cpu usage seems to be low as well .

only LAGGS !
 
check for spywares-adwares.. they sometimes affect overall system performance. also make sure that the image quality is set to performance and not to high quality
 
which is the most stable driver for the 8800 series from NVIDIA @ windows VISTa?

any good spyware adware which u can recommed..
PM me the link if u have
 
Hey man

Sorry to hear this, but try a SpySweeper or Spybot Search and Destroy both will do the job fine, i dont think its the problem with ur card if so atleast u would've seen ONE anamoly like heating or artifacts or just something may be its with the OS or the spywares and stuff, i u have time make a clean sweep of Vista and reinstall it or just clean the drivers even they may cause problem.

if all these fails make sure the PSU is providing enough juice( i see u have a 600watt CM so that may not be the issue but STIll...), try to put it in some other system and run it.

ok what if all these fails then u have only one option change the card from where u got it. and before that try evga support they have a good one i heard, best of luck.
 
It may be a lemon.

I have a Leadtek 640MB, and it is flawless, does 1680x1050 in Oblivion at 30+ FPS average, though it does dip down to 6-7FPS for a microsecond (can't detect while playing, but shows up in FPS monitor of RivaTuner).

Oh wait, did you say Vista?

I'm sorry, I can't help you, don't run Vista.
 
1) Is the graphics card throttling down to a lower clock speed? You can use Rivatuner to monitor the various frequencies of the card during gameplay. RivaTuner

2) Try using the graphics drivers that came with your card. Usually they are a bit older than the latest revisions but are stable. Uninstall the drivers fully then use this: The Guru of 3D Download Section

3) Try to ALT+TAB out of the game and then return back to the game. There is a known issue which the 8800 series that causes the video memory to get "flooded" and slow down.

4) Close ALL background applications before starting the game. Maybe there is something running that consumes your system resources.

5) Your friends may unintentionally be giving your card the evil eye...
 
do follow the steps mentioned by imoen, and dont blame the card, its certainly not the card that is causing the lag but most probably the system, and if you diagnose its the card then its specifically your card and in that case u may need to think bout RMAing it. And yes do try to run the card in XP, if that is possible.
 
i use nv forceware 163.11 beta

i play all dx9 games with all settings max, 8xAA & 16xAF @1280x1024 :)

i get 50-70FPS average in all :D

i use a PNY 8800GTS 640MB which was purchased as soon as it had released in November 2006 :ohyeah:

OS is Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit so maybe Vista helps :P

the image quality is set to high quality too :clap:

Need for speed carbon (on XP), GRAW 1 (on Vista), Rainbow six vegas (on Vista) & Stalker (on Vista) run the smoothest ;)

never run Need for speed carbon on Vista as it is very buggy on it :no:

thus i have only one suggestion:

Format - Install Windows (Vista Preferably) - Install Latest Drivers - Install Auto Patcher - Run Auto Patcher - Install Games - Play

:cheers:
 
I've got the 320mb version of this card and I dont face this problem either I manage to play Oblivion at 1680x1050 even with Vista at med high setting in XP I can play with most options at high, it's the only games along with Dirt which really stresses this card , I've played all the game you've mentioned and these run smoothly without any lag even on Vista ... try defragmenting the drive and install the latest patches and updates, or revert back to XP and see if there is any difference
 
hey man i used to face the same problem when i bought my 7600gt around 8 months back..lots of lag in games which were relatively old,did a thorough scan and found several viruses running..my advice format xp and install again..trust me if its a software problem this is the easiest way...

looks like ur on vista,id suggest using xp for now till stable drivers for vista emerge..
 
I also have 320mb version of this card and have been very happy with it, if none of the above fixes work, you may need to send it back to EVGA, their warranty program is really good, also try calling their tech support with ?'s they are very helpful and knowledgeable.
 
as most you are suggesting.. a format+windows reinstall+ drivers and patches.. will do that rite now.. will keep you guys updated

thanks for the support people :D
 
dingemini312 said:
as most you are suggesting.. a format+windows reinstall+ drivers and patches.. will do that rite now.. will keep you guys updated

thanks for the support people :D
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Exactly !!
The very fact that even the old games lag ... and that you being using an older card b4 then simply swaped with new one with new drivers, clearly shows the high posiibility of software conflits.

A clean install is highly recommended ... simply install Vista and the nVidia's driver with all the basic drivers.

For the start don't install tweaking tools, like riva tunner, nTune etc ...
Test you games with basic stuff then go ahead with adding tools if everything seems fine.
 
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