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Limp Gawd
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I've been running Windows 7 for a while now, and I still get the F'ing lock up and crash to desktop with my gtx260.
I've tried the latest drivers, tried stock Win 7 drivers, tried using Precision to run the fan higher for temps (even though temps never go above 50c during TF2).
Sometimes it'll freeze mid game, I hit control, alt, delete, start task manager, and then just close task manager and everything is fine. Sometimes I have to force close the entire game.
Sometimes I'll start TF2, it'll crash after 2 minutes, and then play fine for hours. Sometimes it'll crash every half and hour.
The only other game I'm playing right now is FO3, and wow, what a piece of shit. Don't get me wrong, I think the game is awesome, which is why I put up with the crashing, but I had it on Vista, and it wouldn't even load, when I started the game and clicked continue, after I had already gotten through most of the game. I wanted to beat it, and explore more, so I reinstalled it on Windows 7 (steam), and I played until getting out of the vault and disarming the Megaton bomb, but it still crashes. Not nearly as much, but WTF.
It's the same damn thing as Vista I suspect, only now I don't that that little notification that a driver has crashed and fixed itself.
Also, I have a different motherboard, and since I don't have SLI I've tried both video cards and gotten the same result.
Overall I'm please with Nvidia, and it might be something I'm doing, but different hardware, different games, and a multitude of complaints on different sites makes me thing Nvidia has a serious problem with drivers, Vista, and Win 7.
I hear people says ATI's drivers suck, but could they really be worse? To tell you the truth, I'm thinking of switching when next gen comes out....
I've tried the latest drivers, tried stock Win 7 drivers, tried using Precision to run the fan higher for temps (even though temps never go above 50c during TF2).
Sometimes it'll freeze mid game, I hit control, alt, delete, start task manager, and then just close task manager and everything is fine. Sometimes I have to force close the entire game.
Sometimes I'll start TF2, it'll crash after 2 minutes, and then play fine for hours. Sometimes it'll crash every half and hour.
The only other game I'm playing right now is FO3, and wow, what a piece of shit. Don't get me wrong, I think the game is awesome, which is why I put up with the crashing, but I had it on Vista, and it wouldn't even load, when I started the game and clicked continue, after I had already gotten through most of the game. I wanted to beat it, and explore more, so I reinstalled it on Windows 7 (steam), and I played until getting out of the vault and disarming the Megaton bomb, but it still crashes. Not nearly as much, but WTF.
It's the same damn thing as Vista I suspect, only now I don't that that little notification that a driver has crashed and fixed itself.
Also, I have a different motherboard, and since I don't have SLI I've tried both video cards and gotten the same result.
Overall I'm please with Nvidia, and it might be something I'm doing, but different hardware, different games, and a multitude of complaints on different sites makes me thing Nvidia has a serious problem with drivers, Vista, and Win 7.
I hear people says ATI's drivers suck, but could they really be worse? To tell you the truth, I'm thinking of switching when next gen comes out....