Summary of GeForce 8800 Game Issues

[radekhulan]

I have just tried Gothic III with Coverage Sample AA 8x, AF 16x, and integrated "HDR" (it is bloom in fact, and is refered to as postprocessing level 1 in Gothic III), and all is working well with 97.44. Great thing is that single 8800GTX can handle 1920x1200 in this game with FPS 40-70 (which is more than enough for RPG).

The only real problem I have is SCDA and "high definition shader".

Have nTune installed, by OC my card through RivaTuner.

[fatal1ty]

Originally Posted by Tranceaddict

DFI LanpartyUT nF4 Ultra-D (704-2BTA BIOS)
AMD Opteron 146 (CABYE 0540 FPMW) @ 3GHz 1.55V
Big Typhoon
2GB Mushkin eXtreme PC4000 (Black) @ 250MHz 2.6V
XFX 8800 GTS @ 630MHz core/2000MHz memory
WD Raptor 74gb
BenQ DW1650 DVD writer
Fortron AX-500 Bluestorm PSU
NZXT Lexa case
Razer Diamondback Plasma Mouse

Similar system to what I had before my upgrade.

I would say first of all you are prolly dealing with a software issue. Something in the background probably causing the performance drops. Also, something prolly specific to opengl maybe. Do you have the chipset drivers installed for the nv mobo? Is the system prime and memtest stable? What is your hypertransport running at? Try another mouse!!! I remember issues with those mice. Also, what do you run in the background for firewall, av, any other startup apps?

[OWA]

Edit: Nevermind, rebooting seems to have solved it.

[K1ngK1llAll]

Has anyone tried Star Wars Republic Commando???? I can't game with it for the life of me. New Game just totally crashes in general (which Driver release notes actually state). But I can't game online either . It was working for 5 minutes or so and now it just crashes when trying to join a server??? I'm using 97.44 also.

[JerseySeven]

Originally Posted by radekhulan

I have just tried Gothic III with Coverage Sample AA 8x, AF 16x, and integrated "HDR" (it is bloom in fact, and is refered to as postprocessing level 1 in Gothic III), and all is working well with 97.44.

Radekhulan,

Those are terrific screenshots!

I'm not able to try this at the moment or I wouldn't be bothering you. Do postprocessing levels 2 and 3 disable AA? Also, are you forcing AF from the control panel or using application controlled anisotropic filtering?

Thanks much!

[nekrosoft13]

Originally Posted by radekhulan

I have just tried Gothic III with Coverage Sample AA 8x, AF 16x, and integrated "HDR" (it is bloom in fact, and is refered to as postprocessing level 1 in Gothic III), and all is working well with 97.44. Great thing is that single 8800GTX can handle 1920x1200 in this game with FPS 40-70 (which is more than enough for RPG).

The only real problem I have is SCDA and "high definition shader".

Have nTune installed, by OC my card through RivaTuner.

still doesn't work right for me

i get weird slow downs and graphical glitches from time to time

[icecold1983]

cant use any aa in tm united other than the 2/4x in the game menu

[Tranceaddict]

Originally Posted by fatal1ty

Similar system to what I had before my upgrade.

I would say first of all you are prolly dealing with a software issue. Something in the background probably causing the performance drops. Also, something prolly specific to opengl maybe. Do you have the chipset drivers installed for the nv mobo? Is the system prime and memtest stable? What is your hypertransport running at? Try another mouse!!! I remember issues with those mice. Also, what do you run in the background for firewall, av, any other startup apps?

I have the latest chipset drivers for my mobo "6.86", also I tested Prime and Memtest for at least 12 hours each, and both passed with no errors. Hypertransport is running at 1800 "3X" LDT multiplier. I have my XP tweaked to where I am running only 15 programs in the background, and my AV is the latest Kaspersky. BTW, my entire set up was exactly the same before except for the 7900GT.

P.S. The errors occur not in a specific region, but rather during intense firefights or while the Arty is raining down. I always had my FPS capped at 100, but even with the 7900GT on a 64 person server it rarely dropped below 70FPS.

[delcruz]

Originally Posted by Tranceaddict

I have the latest chipset drivers for my mobo "6.86", also I tested Prime and Memtest for at least 12 hours each, and both passed with no errors. Hypertransport is running at 1800 "3X" LDT multiplier. I have my XP tweaked to where I am running only 15 programs in the background, and my AV is the latest Kaspersky. BTW, my entire set up was exactly the same before except for the 7900GT.

P.S. The errors occur not in a specific region, but rather during intense firefights or while the Arty is raining down. I always had my FPS capped at 100, but even with the 7900GT on a 64 person server it rarely dropped below 70FPS.

i have also done the above. i have latest bios and mobo drivers. i have dual core optimizer installed..... i have tried setting afinity to "1" core. i have tried disabling "threaded optimization" in control panel. i fiddled around with it today and the same things happend to me as Tranceaddict. i played the "chateau" level and as soon as heavy fire fight my fps drops to where it stutters and then it goes back up but usually only after fighting stops.

i have already tried putting my old 7800gtx in and cod works great then. Then i put 8800 back in and it's a no go......hmmmm i have bout 25 processes going. use AVG.......hmmmm... sry i don't want to get off topic with trying to get cod working... i don't have v-sync enabled. i played f.e.a.r. today for 2 hours no probs.

[radekhulan]

Originally Posted by JerseySeven

I'm not able to try this at the moment or I wouldn't be bothering you. Do postprocessing levels 2 and 3 disable AA? Also, are you forcing AF from the control panel or using application controlled anisotropic filtering?

I am forcing Coverage Sample AA 8x via nHancer (application profile), and using PostProcessing Level 1 in Gothic III settings (Level 2 is, in fact, blur, Level 1 is bloom, so there is no reason to use Level 2). Level 0 disables both bloom & blur. I do not use FSAA settings in Gothic.

[OWA]

Need for Speed Carbon isn't working very well with SLI for me. It's smoother with a single card. I've just tried the regular SFR, AFR1 and AFR2 modes. It also seems to change a little. Like the first time I tried it I used AFR1 and it wasn't too bad. I exited the game, tried AFR2 and performance wasn't very good at all. Also, SLI wasn't used at all (no green at all). I then exited, switched to SFR, it didn't run all that great. Exited, went back to AFR1. SLI was being utilized but performance was lower than the first time I tried it and it was more jerky also. I had this problem with earlier drivers and somehow it just went away. Now it's back.

Trying to use 4xAA/16xAF.

[OWA]

Originally Posted by lowdog

Gothic 3 is unplayable with 8800GTX sli on Striker 680i, shadows flashing on and off all over the place, flickering textures all over the place.

Originally Posted by OWA

Set it to single gpu mode.

Yeah, Gothic 3 isn't doing very well with SLI. With the 97.02s and 97.28s, the character shadows flicker. The 97.44s fix that but there are some texture flashing issues and shadows in general seem a little messed up. Like the whole area will have the shadow "pop-in" and I'm also not sure the whole area should be in a shadow like that. Framerate is definitely higher but it doesn't seem to be as smooth as single gpu mode.