8800GTS installed, buggy

Dfran · Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:37:00 Post Subject:

I reinstalled my OS last night, along with everything else. The driver installed fine----weird. But now it's still giving me hassles, HL2 won't run, it says it's encountered a problem and needs to close, before it even opens. Haven't tried FarCry yet with new install, though. But I really want to play HL2 w/ this card.

**Modulok** · Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:58:20 Post Subject:

can you lower your resolution with HL2?

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

im still thinking PSU is the problem
when we were at CES most of the higher end cards/systems were powered by at least 600W models, most systems were powered by 800-100W models....

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Well, there was a system at Zalman that has an 8800, and was only pulling 270W. They were showing off a VERY WICKED 3D display...

You'll be sorry you missed it Jim....

acruxksa · Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:16:45 Post Subject:

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:50:04 Post Subject:

have you tried a complete windows update? I know there was a package I needed to get my CS:S working after a full reinstall once.

Dfran · Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:13:47 Post Subject:

I already did the OS reinstall thing. That helped me load the driver for the 8800, but it still won't play anything except FEAR. I tried Oblivion last night too, and that won't play. But the fact that it plays FEAR fine leads me to think that the psu is fine. I think it's the drivers for Win x64. The guy at EVGA told me that there are newer drivers for 32 bit version which have fixed some of the problems I'm having. I think I just need for them to put out a better revised driver edition. Which totally blows, I just spent a small fortune on this thing, and can only play one game.
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**Modulok** · Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:16:31 Post Subject:

64bit sucks...can you try 32bit?

Dfran · Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:28:01 Post Subject:

64 bit sucks--- what?

Will a pc power and cooling 600w handle 2 8800GTS in SLI?

If it's my power supply though, how com FEAR runs so well?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:27:04 Post Subject:

Yea, 64 bit XP sucks... I know I run it.

600W for 2 8800GTS's... I wouldn't. If I were to look at that math again 26A * 2 = 52A. The 600W is 49A.

Heck if you look at the site, the quad 750 is the one certified for the 8800GTX's, so that would be the one I'd go with.

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