Hello all, this is a tricky situation, tried many solutions, nothing worked yet, may be some1 here will help, thank you in advance! Problem is that in Vista environment i cant play games, the crash after couple secs, sometimes goes up to couple mins, but usually bout 20 secs, the crash is screen turns off, game crashes as well i think as sound turns off as well after and after 10 mins or some pc restarts autamatically, windows suggests to contact nvidia for latest drivers etc on the other hand in xp environtment games work etc, altho i cant surf! pc freezes after like 1 min of suring, doesnt matter on the browser ie firefox opera nothing, all freeze, the rest is fine can play etc. Ideally i would like a solution to vista since i liked it, and new games come out for vista only( System is: CPU: AMD x64 duo core 5200+ Motherboard: M2V asus Video: Nvidia 8800 GTS (640 some mg) RAM: ocz 2 gig its all the same no matter which version 64 or 86, tried in vista and xp variants sry if chosen the thread wrong, just imho the prob is bad drivers for video thx in advance! (got here after reading this article http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=391&pgno=1 ) not sure if its real or not)))) but anyways i spent time reading it)
Make sure you delete the existing drivers and reboot without installing any Vista drivers before installing the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website. I had a similar problem with an 8600GT card last week and it seems the driver from the Microsoft Update website was causing the problem. Boot into Safe Mode to do the deletion of the drivers too. Good luck!
If you are changing drivers, try use Drivercleaner (not sure the software works in Vista) prior to installing the another one.
IMHO, a freshly-installed Windows Vista is buggy and unstable. Patch it up with all the latest updates. As for your other problems... I would seriously think about viruses. Are you running any anti-virus software?
installing nod32 with spyware doctor once in a while to check up, usuallyy nothing or just some cookie thingy PS, i use vista i made with vlite all updates onbaord, no drivers, easier to reinstall
Ran a 3dmark test in xp, all cool, in vista all well except SM2.0 test and most of batch size tests are freezing after some secs
Windows Vista still has some bugs that affect 3D games and applications. You have to check the list of hotfixes, cause they are not part of the normal updates.
You sure? Here are the two relevant hotfixes : The first hotfix improves multi-GPU performance and can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936710 The second hot fix improves stability for memory intensive DirectX 10 applications on graphics cards with greater than 512MB of memory: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940105
Well, Windows Vista isn't the most stable operating system by any measure. My PC crashes even when it's not running any game! So, I wouldn't be surprised if your games do not run as well as it did in Windows XP. Unless you want to play DX10-only games, it's still better to stick with Windows XP for gaming. IMHO, things will get better over time, especially after Microsoft releases SP1.
yea i know, but it so pisses me off that i cant use explorer in xp( and vista is so nice looking and very comfy as well
Try the same thing in Windows XP - if it behaves the same, I would suspect the PSU first - is it enough for the 8800 videocard? A 8800GTS might need a lot of power, so you have to have at least 500W and above, if I'm not mistaken.
