This is what I get with all Vista drivers

[Kelldane]

The only games that appear to work for me that I own so far is Oblivion and Half Life 2. This is what I get for the rest of the games.
http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/3259/pictures095gz5.jpg

All drivers give me this issue.. I have a EVGA 7900GT

Has anyone else had this issue?

[bchildsdotcom]

Exact same issue here... also EVGA 7900GT

[Kelldane]

I wonder how many people with 7900GT's are having this problem.:thumbdwn:

[$n][pErMan]

If you were not able to play those two games id say it was a bad card. Thats some crazy ****!

[Kelldane]

It's not a bad card because it works perfectly fine on Windows 2000 with every game I have. The drivers for the 7900 series seem to be the issue because I've done some searching around on the net and found a lot of people having the same problem under Vista.

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=27043

The most recent posts in that large thread show people with 7900gt's still having this problem.

[Kelldane]

Anyone else with 7900GT's having this issue?

[WeReWoLf]

Pretty colours...

[smallSHEEP]

I have an EVGA 7900 GT and get exactly the same problem, infact I have reinstalled windows XP today as I've just had enough of this driver madness.

What I would find is that games would work perfectly at first, but if i was to exit the game and try another game it would hard lock the system with the same graphical corruption as in your picture.

i think 7900 GT + Vista = Borked

[Kelldane]

Well, after a lot of time and effort, I decided just for the time being to "upgrade" to an x1950xt and now all my games work. Tried all the games that were giving me problems and they all work. I emailed Nvidia and Evga and they weren't responsive so I chose to go this route for now. Just seems like a 7900 series issue on Vista.

[rflair]

Works perfectly here, Vista x64 and 7900GT.

Turn hibernation off fixes it for most.

Also sychronzing 2D and 3D clocks might help, wouldn't hurt to try.

[jporter]

Oh, welcome to my world. Have the same exact issue. Specially when dualview for my two CRT monitors is on. Also this seems to happen more on CRT monitors then TFT I think :) Think we just have to keep reporting this error to nvidia and hope these bastards will fix it soon...

EDIT: I am on a Gainward GS 7950 GT 256MB

[nekrosoft13]

have anyone actually tried to report this issue to nvidia?

[MarcusTaz]

THis is what I have been crying about since the 96.33 drivers... This vertical Corrutption!! Seems only with the 7900 series as my older 7800 does not seem affected. Yes I have filled out the Nvidia quality assurance page several times with this info but still I get it.... I have found that if your game resolution matches you desktop resolution this helps tremendously. Also make sure you set the drivers to single display, seemed to help but who knows... As it is now if I launch COD2 it is fine but only if I use nhancer to show me my SLI bars, ( i have to use Nhancer cause the there is nowhere to turn it on using the Nvidia control panel even though some have said it exists, not on my machine) if I shut that overlay off the corrption happens more often. Also when I launch BF2 I immediatly get the corrution, I then have to alt-tab and bring the game back up and then all is well. Sucks but have been dealing with this crap since the 96.33 series drivers and that is no joke...

[Zandig]

I have 2 Evga 7900Gts in SLI and I have seen this issue as well using Windows XP with the newer drivers.

In fact I can produce it right now with the 93.71 or 93.81 drivers using 3DMark 06. The 'Return to Proxycon' test runs fine and then when the screen blanks to load the next test....BAM....same image as you posted above. Also the game FATE, if you play at 1600x1200 or higher eventually between loading screens the same corruption appears on the screen.

The series 8 drivers never had this issue. So its not just a Vista issue although it seems to be much worse with Vista.

[MarcusTaz]

Works perfectly here, Vista x64 and 7900GT.

Turn hibernation off fixes it for most.

Also sychronzing 2D and 3D clocks might help, wouldn't hurt to try.

never had hibernation on...

64 bit does not seems to be affected as I ran it as a test bed not to long ago.. Most do not run it so that is a moot point....

Instruct how you sync the 2d clock and the 3d clock, I will try anything at this point...

[jporter]

yeah it's really great with two 21" CRT monitors and this corruption :P when you get this, ctrl+alt+del sometimes helps... also on single mode... when I launch Windows Live Messenger with aero off, I get instant corruption. I have btw filled this bug out several times on the bug report site... I suggest you people do the same... the more reports the higher the priority probably :p

[Ra_]

Ok I know that I have a different pair of boards, but with my SLi of 7900GTO (clocked well beyond GTX frequencies) I haven't that sort of problems in Vista Enterprise 64 bit Edition with 158.43 drivers (modified inf, of course).
I had a lot of BSODs problems with Vista Enterprise 32 bit Edition with Geil RAMs. I called Microsoft and requested "Alternate Media" for 64 bit Edition of Vista Enterprise and now with G.Skill RAMs system is really a lot more stable. I should say "Rock Solid".
I know I'm not of any help at all, but I wanted to say that.

[jporter]

as far as I know OC'ing your RAM/CPU can result in NVKLDDM error... I don't know in what ways it is to the screen corruption..
a friend of mine has bought the EXACT same 7950GT and is not getting any of these problems...he has a TFT screen though running @ 60hz... I think maybe it has to do with a CRT monitor which has more refresh rates and initialises different refresh rates then 60hz... if your TFT does 75hz you might also get this... welll I don't know I'm confused now by what I'm saying lol

[mexpak]

God, I get that mess all the time. Also using a eVGA 7900GT.

I have to bounce between the stock Vista driver and the latest Nvidia depending on what I want to play.

For example...

Any Source engine game, or even half-life 1 mod, Rome total war, I need to use the Nvidia releases.

To play Company of Heroes without crashing, Peggle and others, I need to use the stock Vista driver.

Some games, like Vampire Bloodlines, are far more finicky. I can't play it at all with the nvidia drivers, yet everytime I exit with the stock Vista, I get the screen anyways.

I keep wondering if people with any Geforce 6 or 7 card get this issue, if its just Geforce 7, or even just 7900s. The fact that the Geforce 8s are different than previous cards, as you see many driver releases now only focusing/working on 8000s, leads me to believe they just haven't been focusing on Vista drivers for us 6000 and 7000 users.

Nvidia has been the only problem I have with Vista :(

[Kelldane]

When I had my 7900gt in my machine, I tried everything mentioned so far in this thread, even trying different BIOS's. I did send bug reports for every single driver that corrupted on me (all of them except the stock vista, which didn't work for HL2 for me as I could see through walls, ect.) and emailed them several times. Posted in thier forums and Nzone, EVGA, and here and I see that there are quite a few people with the same problems. I recently changed to a Sapphire Radeon x1950xt and all the corruption is gone. I didn't really feel I had a choice if I wanted to play games on here.

[MarcusTaz]

as far as I know OC'ing your RAM/CPU can result in NVKLDDM error... I don't know in what ways it is to the screen corruption..
a friend of mine has bought the EXACT same 7950GT and is not getting any of these problems...he has a TFT screen though running @ 60hz... I think maybe it has to do with a CRT monitor which has more refresh rates and initialises different refresh rates then 60hz... if your TFT does 75hz you might also get this... welll I don't know I'm confused now by what I'm saying lol


It is not the mutiple frequencys as far as CRT or TFT.

Gentlemen, try making sure your refresh rate in windows matches your game refresh rate. I am telling you this helps. I tried shutting off Aero and it does not help. Install Nhancer people and let me know if it helps too. Again since installing Nhancer it has helped me.. I have built multiple platforms and it seems the 7900 is the issue. 6800, 7800 and 8800 is fine, heck 2 of my 5200 are fine.

[jporter]

It is not the muktiple frequencys as far as CRT or TFT.

Gentlemen, try making sure your refresh rate in windows matches your game refresh rate. I am telling you this helps. I tried shutting off Aero and it does not help. Install Nhancer people and let me know if it helps too. Again since installing Nhancer it has helped me.. I have built multiple platforms and it seems the 7900 is the issue. 6800, 7800 and 8800 is fine, heck 2 of my 5200 are fine.

thanks for your reply, I know for a fact you are right about this... but how to force it in those refresh rates? I hope nhancer can do that... will try it tonight and let you guys know on this thread... :) Once again thanks for the reply

[MarcusTaz]

thanks for your reply, I know for a fact you are right about this... but how to force it in those refresh rates? I hope nhancer can do that... will try it tonight and let you guys know on this thread... :) Once again thanks for the reply


To force refresh rates? Well I dono about force but I know on my TFT the stock refresh is 60hz, but my viewsonic goes to 75 max. So I set the nivida driver to 75 using the control panel and then just make sure the games run in 75hz. Again this is not full proof but at least using this method allowed me to Alt Tab out of a game without gettting that horrible vertical corrution. Strange enough running a creative xfi fatality pro and installing alchemy to allow EAX 3 to run again seemed to complicate the vertical corrution, making it worse. I dono how it would but who knows with Vista.. All I know is installing Nhancer and customising settings in there and turning on the SLI load bars has at least stablized my current driver install keeping the vertical corruption to a minimal.

On my office PC to avoid this very problem I just reinstalled the 96.33 drivers of yester-year and all vertical corrution is gone. But then again I do not game on that platform even though I could....:D

[MarcusTaz]

Well enough is enough, sorry boys I have jumped ship.. I can no longer take this vertical corruption bug and I have sold my Nvidia platform, mobo and 7900GT KO SLI and have gone with ATI 2900XT and ATI chipset... No more vertical corruption and I can finally AlT-Tab without any issues and gaming is now fun again... See ya Nvidia, I gave you enough time... ATI now and not turning back..:thumbdwn:

[Kelldane]

I took out my 7900gt and replaced it with a X1950xt and haven't really have had any problems to speak of. Got tired of waiting-- I gave them MANY bug reports and emails. I Just wish they would respond back more and at least try to help.