I've been trying to decide for a few weeks if my 8800GTX has an issue. There's definately an issue, not sure if its the 8800 though. I'll try to explain:
Sometimes, when playing FPS games, I'll notice a tearing, not of "polygons" but of the screen, hortizontally, about 2/3 up the screen. The type of thing you might see when you've got V-sync issues. It almost looks like there's two parts of the screen slightly overlapping.
It is most noticable when you are panning round quickly and have heavily rendered things on screen (i.e. sky, or close to a wall etc).
Here's the odd bit. It doesn't seem to happen when I start playing a game (its noticeable on Bioshock, GoW, COD4 & Crysis), it's generally after about 10 mins of GPU cooking that it starts to happen. Heat? Don't think so. I've been hitting a max of 66c on the GPU which doesn't sound to toasty (aasuming Rivatuner temps are correct).
Using OC setting or default makes no difference. I've tried all manner of V-sync and Triple Buffering settings with no success (driver and in-game). I've tried a screen grab but everything looks OK so cannot visually demonstrate the problem.
I'm usuing the rig below and a Sammy 226BW (have same problem on 32" LCD TV).
Whilst its not spoling my enjoyment of the games, it's starting to P155 me off now as I've zoned into it.
Any idea problem-solving-meisters? Thanks.
Sometimes, when playing FPS games, I'll notice a tearing, not of "polygons" but of the screen, hortizontally, about 2/3 up the screen. The type of thing you might see when you've got V-sync issues. It almost looks like there's two parts of the screen slightly overlapping.
It is most noticable when you are panning round quickly and have heavily rendered things on screen (i.e. sky, or close to a wall etc).
Here's the odd bit. It doesn't seem to happen when I start playing a game (its noticeable on Bioshock, GoW, COD4 & Crysis), it's generally after about 10 mins of GPU cooking that it starts to happen. Heat? Don't think so. I've been hitting a max of 66c on the GPU which doesn't sound to toasty (aasuming Rivatuner temps are correct).
Using OC setting or default makes no difference. I've tried all manner of V-sync and Triple Buffering settings with no success (driver and in-game). I've tried a screen grab but everything looks OK so cannot visually demonstrate the problem.
I'm usuing the rig below and a Sammy 226BW (have same problem on 32" LCD TV).
Whilst its not spoling my enjoyment of the games, it's starting to P155 me off now as I've zoned into it.
Any idea problem-solving-meisters? Thanks.
