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RaenImrahl

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Greetings,

I upgraded to a PNY GTS 450 (1GB) Nvidia graphics card at the end of October and almost wept for joy at the improvement I saw when playing DA:O.  I was finally able to enjoy the game at full graphics at a truly a gorgeous frame rate.  I've been using the lastest NVidia driver from the start - version 260.99.

Then, about a week ago, things started to go wacky.  Random spiky polygon things would erupt from characters, usually on the faces or the hands.  It would usually appear in a cut-scene or during a conversation, and it will persist through the game unless I alt-tab to the desktop or reload from a saved game.  A very MINOR example is below:

http://i1029.photobu...ten_eyeprob.jpg

It has since gotten far worse.  It use to happen after an hour or so of gameplay.  Now it happens almost immediately after load-up.  I decided in this playthrough to do the Circle Tower last... and the game has gone bat-crap crazy.  The only thing I can think of is that most of my characters are very high level and have a lot of active spells and power ups going... Cleansing Aura and the like.

I have made sure that all of the NVidia control panel settings are back to default.  I've also tried turning off AA, and lowering texture quality and res (I usually play at 1680 x 1050, but I've gone much lower, with no real effect).

It also does not seem to be a temperature issue-- my GPU temp never gets above 55 C and my core CPU temp appears to be about the same.  I even went so far as to uninstall the GPU driver last night and re-install it... no effect.

Anyway, the game is quickly becoming unplayable.  Is there some simple setting I am missing?  Any advice would be appreciated.

Windows 7 x64 w/ 6GB DDR2 PC6400 Ram (800Mhz)
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (Dual core, 3.0Ghz)
ASUS M3N78 Mobo
PNY GTS 450 GPU w/ 1GB DDR5 (Driver Ver. 260.99)

EDIT:  I was able to find other threads discussing these same problems, but nothing newer than 8 mos. ago and no real solutions.  If anyone has an update, I'd appreciate it!  Thanks!

Modifié par RaenImrahl, 27 décembre 2010 - 06:15 .


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LadyLinnie

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I have the same problem, and I suspect we've found the same old threads... but nothing new, and nothing helpful. I never had this problem when I was using the original game or the 1.02a patch, only since installing 1.04 (though I installed most of the DLC and Awakenings at the same time).



Some days I can play for hours before it starts up, some days it's right there from the start. Usually every fourth or fifth session is stable (can play for more than one hour without corruption).



I'm Windows XP SP3, Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT, Intel Core 2 Duo... I'm not going to list the whole thing since everyone already KNOWS it's a problem with the Nvidia cards. As ReanImrahl asks, does anyone have a fix for this?

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RaenImrahl

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LadyLinnie: I'd be interested to see if uninstalling your current Nvidia driver and installing an older one would help you. That's been a solution in other forums. I can't, because my card is new and only supported by the last driver... 260.99.

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RaenImrahl

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Also... a possible solution:



http://social.biowar...8/index/5574840