As you may or may not know I recently purchased a PNY 7600GS 512mb AGP graphics card. The card itself is great for my purposes, even though the fan is garbage, but recently when I tried to play Oblivion, and Morrowind, they both crashed after hours of play. The crashes were the type you report to MS. Unfortunately I do not have detailed admin reports of those errors and have been unable to debug, since these crashes are so rare.
I have put my PC through numerous Torture Tests through Prime, Performance Test, and 3DMark05, and each one went without a hitch. I have played many long hours of CS:Source & Guild Wars without a problem.
I initially had problems with the drivers but I have since solved them by installing the NGO Optimized drivers from NGOHQ. These seem to be the only decent nvidia drivers out right now that I have seen, and to be honest it worries me. I have no idea how good or bad these drivers truly are because I have been an ATI customer for so long. I am starting to miss the way ATI would release their drivers in the typical fashion: 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, etc.
My system is a typical modern AGP setup
ms-7104
intel p4 2.6 stock clocks
pny 7600gs stock clocks
430w antec ps
2x512mb pc3200
Any help debugging this would be very helpful. I have tried to RMA the card already but have been ignored by PNY. Fortunately I bought the card from BestBuy, who has an extended return policy for the holidays, so I have until the end of January to come to a conclusion with this problem.
One thing of note is that I used verifier.exe to debug the errors the official forceware drivers were initially giving me in the past, which have been solved for weeks now. That means that the drivers I have in there now have not been altered in any way from their released form.
While the fan on the graphics card is cheap, I do not get any shutdowns from overheating, and have good air flow throughout my case from the
CPU Fan, the 120mm PS fan, and the case fan in back. I do not believe this is an overheating problem because of that and the fact that I have ran numerous torture & benchmark tests.
Thank you for your time.
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