Nvidia 9600 Gt

i just started to have major problems with my windlight viwer....purple marks in the monitor...avatar keeps flashing...walls look messed up...just started yesterday...unistalled windlight and instaled again....works good for about 5 minutes then the purple spots started to show up again....i noticed that without the openGL enable it takes alitle longer to start to hapen...so i unistall driver and instaled again...also worked good for couple minutes then same problem....whent to nvidia site to see if they have a new driver then i see that they have a new video card....geforce 9600 gt...fucking bastards i spent almost 500 USD on my 88 series....now they drop a 9600 series for not even half price( USD 196.00)....thats one thing that pissed me off....now here is the question....can that has anything to do with the problem im having...i mean the driver etc...im pissed off cause i love windlight....

You may be having overheating problems with your graphics card. Does it happen right away if your computer has been off overnight?

well i didnt toght about that....my computer its been on for couple days now...lol

i usualy dont turn off very often....



that means i have to turn off for a while then?


how long

You will have to do something to increase the cooling of your machine. More fans or whatever.

Unfortuantely if this just started happening then your card may also just be going bad now, memory failures due to high temp use for months of SLing for example.

Yours would not be the first video card "burned out" by SL usage

i like that idea....im adicted to SL...lol


im so adicted that i never really care about video card untill i started to use SL...lol got almost all geforce series and prolly not gonna wait to long to get the new one out...but before that i wanna know if anybody has a DELL xps 410 and if the card its compatible...i dont wanna buy and then not be able to use....


second...i always see u guys talking about coller fans etc...let me know what i should get....

One thing you can try before spending money and effort on adding extra cooling to you computer is just take the side of the case off and point a house fan at it. If you don't have those problems after it being off over night for a few hours then chances are good it's a heat issue, but often when a card starts to glitch due to heat the damage is already done. That may not be your issue, but I've had similar things happen before from my video cards dying due to heat, like random polygons on avatars flashing on and off, vertexes shooting off into infinity creating odd spiky things, and random colored pixels. It would help if you can borrow someone else's graphics card to try in your computer for a day.

i decide to buy new card....i wanna know if its a good diference betwen the 8600 gts and the 8800 gtx....since i burned mine and im gonna get new on i figure that i might just upgrade to a 8800 series but before i wanna know if its a big diference

I'm not sure how big the difference is. The GTX should have quite a bit for RAM on it, but I'm not sure the speed difference is very much. I use an 8800GTX and love it. I forgot to ask before. Are you having problems with the regular viewer or just with Windlight?

The 8600 series card is complete crap. That's the truth. The 9600GTS is better than the 8600 by FAR. The 88xx series is a very great (Top of the line from Nvidia right now) series.