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A question I feel stupid asking

Damo667

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Hi guys I need to clear something up. A lad who plays NASCAR heat which is a 2003 game has started having his car disappear and reappear. Some guy has told him his graphics card is too good to play it. My gtx770 plays it perfectly well so my question is this:

Can a graphics card be 'too good' to be able to play a game.

I feel stupid asking but I want to shut the guy up. I suggested to the lad with the problem is most likely an outdated gpu driver or it recently updated the driver and the new one is causing the problem.
 
Maybe not too good as such, but so far ahead that driver updates introduce glitches to old games that never get fixed because the games are so old.
 
He hasn't said what card it is yet I've asked 3 times. It sounded so redicilous I felt silly having to ask you guys this question to begin with.
 
There is actually sort of such a thing as a card being too good. An example is playing The Sims 3 on my current rig (280x). The game has no built-in vsync and it was running at like 2500 FPS or something crazy, I could hear my card screaming from coil whine! It was not happy :p
 
Pffftt! Call that a stupid question?!? It's perfectly valid, asked well and sensible. Thread does not deliver on its title!

Came in expecting "I've placed a graphics card on my laptop's keyboard and still can't play Crysis, why not?". I'm very disappointed.

:D
 
I remember Saints row 2 having issues with windows 7, it ran at double speed or something stupid like that.

As above its most likely a software issue than hardware, Is this a recent issue without any new hardware added?
 
As has been said it will be a software issue. I dont think if the actual hardware runs the game it is possible for it to be too good. It will either run it or not, the rest is down to the software.
 
Sounds a bit like the good old days when games used CPU clock cycles for timing and major work arounds were required for them to still be playable as the hardware got faster :rolleyes:
 
Played Unreal Tournament GOTY at the last LAN event we played. I could cross the map over three times quicker than the first-gen i3 & GT440 machines I was playing with. Very funny, but did make control and aiming a little tricky! Downloaded the DX10 patch and it fixed it right up, but was very funny for a bit there.
 
The last time I had an issue playing an old game on new hardware was Daytona USA : PC by Sega.

The backdrop would turn into a wireframe and the car would flash. I would also get about 500 FPS then about 10 FPS lol the game didn't know what had hit it :D

A lot of it is drivers really. For example, Daytona was made in 1999 and so used one of the very first versions of Direct X. DX 3 IIRC. Thus by the time I played it again on a Geforce 2 MX with dual Pentium Pros we were on DX 6 or possibly DX 7. Later drivers only support the latest versions of DX. If they didn't the drivers would run into the GBs.

All I can suggest is maybe buying an old rig for peanuts to play the game on. Problem is you then need the old drivers to go with it.....
 
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