Graphical trouble with games, and general system help!

[Israar]

Hey people, this is my first time here and I have read up quite a bit about what's gone on here, and I like some of the responses given out by a few people thus far!

What was pondering me is this, I'm having troubles with my computer, the system is as follows;

- AMD Athlon64 FX-55 2.6Ghz
- 2.0GB RAM - (2x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR CAS2-3-2-5 OCZ
- MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum m/b
- nVidia GeForce XFX 6800 Ultra 256Mb (81.85 WHQL Drivers)
- 420GB HD Space (1x 120GB SATA + 1x 300GB SATA)
- NEC Dual Layer 16x DVD +/- RW Drive
- Monitor; Iiyama 8ms 17" LCD
- Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
- Creative Inspire 5.1 P5800
- ThermalTake Shark Series Case (Black)
- Hyper Type-R 525Watt PSU
- Microsoft Black Digital Media Keyboard PS/2 USB
- Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical Ivory
- OS: Windows XP Professional

I've just downloaded the new nForce3 drivers from nVidia (5.11) as the ones I currently have are 5.10. What bothers me though, is that when I'm playing World of Warcraft I have to take off my shaders in order to play the game properly, otherwise it hardlocks my system and loops a sound effect that is rather irritating. To stop that, I have to manually push the On/Off button and hold it to switch off my PC, once off I can then turn my system back on.

I have retrieved my MSINFO and stored it within a .txt file which can be found here; MSINFO.

My DirectX diagnostic report is stored here; DxDiag.

I have a HTML report of my system too with Everest; Home Edition. That can be found here; Report .

I'm going to be installing the 5.11 nForce3 drivers when I have posted this, which will give you lot time to read my report hehe! Hopefully someone will be able to help me in any way possible!

Anyway, to get into it, I'm thinking of swapping the default cooler for my GeForce XFX 6800 Ultra to this one; NV Silencer 5 (Rev.2) but I'd like to get your lots opinion on the best cooler for me Graphics Card, besides that, I have the default heatsink and fan on my AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 but I was going to be putting in ThermalTakes Big Water Cooling kit in, though ironically two parts of the pump broke when I applied little force to take the clips from the plastic section of the pump so I could fit the tubes, so I left it at that. (I'm a novice for Water Cooling PC's, but I can build them none the less =)) I am eventually hoping to get a water cooling kit into this system soon, not yet though need to save up! One that is good enough and not "too" expensive! I'm after cooling mainly my CPU and GPU, though NB is up to you peeps, and whether you think its worth doing it.

I checked my IRQ's too, and here is what there is so far;

As you can see from the picture above; IRQ's 16, 19, 21 and 22 are shared, all but IRQ's 16 are shared by 2 objects whereas IRQ 16 is shared by 3. I have gone through each sharing item and gone to their properties to find out whether there are any "conflicts" and each one says "No conflicts." -- So this is a stump for me, I can't tell whether it is them or not which may be causing me problems for my game crashing in World of Warcraft, as it only looks up Warcraft. Planetside just gives me "planetside.exe" errors but that is bearable. All my other games I run with 1024x768 resolution and optimal settings, which are normally High / Very High, Detected by the actual game.

Far Cry runs amazing with fully blown graphics, as with my other games.

I have Riva Tuner and I have clocked my core down from 425Mhz to 410Mhz to see if that would help, it didn't do much. I don't know how to check my temps while playing games, so I can't give any information there. I have FRAPS so I can make movies and such if need be.

My temps/volts as of the current moment are as follows;

CPU Temp Idle; 33C
System Temp Idle; 32C
GPU Temp Idle; 45C
Ambient Temp Idle; 31C

Vcore; 1.50v
3.3V; 3.42v
+5V; 5.16v
+12V; 12.26v /// 12.38v (This is jumping between the two voltages readings gradually going up to 12.38 and back down to 12.26)

As you gathered, I'm in a bit of a state really, don't know what to do now as I've tried quite a few things but to no avail, reverting back to previous GFX drivers just makes things worse.

Another thing to top it off, is my DirectX diagnosis of the Direct3D, this puzzles me quite a bit, when I first installed the 81.85 drivers for my graphics card the 3D box was perfect and was shown well, now though its all messed up and really bad, I can't show any previews as trying with FRAPS showed the 3D Box to be ok, after stopping the movie capture and running the Direct3D again the box was speeded up and looking aweful!

I'm also thinking of buying a new motherboard and binning this current motherboard as I am unsure whether the problem may lie with the board too...

Personally I need some opinions on this and was looking forward to finding something new from you people if you manage to know something about this

If not then there is no worries as eventually the problem should get a fix!

If you need anymore information then please do ask and I will try to aquire it for you!

--Lee

 

[Solaris17]

well personally freind im at a loss i might be able to help if only it didnt seem everything was already in order........props on the sys itself however u have an exellent set up.

 

[Israar]

well personally freind im at a loss i might be able to help if only it didnt seem everything was already in order........props on the sys itself however u have an exellent set up.

Thanks for the speedy reply mate, wasn't really expecting a reply so late at night!

Anyway, I have installed the nForce3 5.11 drivers and so far things seem to be running as normal, wont be testing any games tonight going to hit the sack shortly! After I reinstalled the nForce drivers I thought, I'll reinstall the 81.85 WHQL drivers for my Graphics Card, which I did.

After that I rebooted, all loaded up as per normal, and I ran dxdiag to check my Direct3D again and to my amusement, my Direct3D is now working correctly again, which was quite funny haha!

Thanks again

--Lee

 

[Solaris17]

well glad it seems to work finnaly but tell us how it goes w/ the games i heard those drivers were flakey

 

[gerrynicol]

the 81.85 driver as"suppossed" to be the same as the 81.84 drivers except they are WHQL certified, I installed both and found the .84(I think thats what they are called) more stable and alot faster.

 

[HookeyStreet]

I cant offer any advice (sadly) but I just wanted to say '"NICE SYSTEM M8"

 

[Silverstone]

Nice rig & great gpu temps there!


RE. Nvidia display drivers: the 81.85's seem to cause a few problems in some of the latest games....There are two versions of 81.84's on the net & both seem to work fine here.

I'll see if I can dig up a link on those 81.85's.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=404868

 

[ENGINEER-1]

HI ISRAAR

I got 81.84 drivers for my FX 5700LE and they seem to be ok

 

[Israar]

HI ISRAAR

I got 81.84 drivers for my FX 5700LE and they seem to be ok

Okies mate, I'll go and get myself the 81.84 drivers now and thanks for all the responses, it's been amazing =)

I left Prime95 running for 5hours and 38minutes and had no warnings or errors while running the Torture Test. I ran it under the "Blend" mode where it tests some of everything and lots of memory!

I have a screenshot for you here;

Thats just to show ya! Hehe, I'll get and install the drivers while we speak and slap World of Warcraft on and hopefully have myself up and running as it's weird I have such a nice system yet my brothers is running WoW better than this one!

Unbelievable haha!

--Lee

 

[Solaris17]

^ bah its probably just programs defrag or get like a reg cleaner it it will be sweet!! i bet

 

[Israar]

^ bah its probably just programs defrag or get like a reg cleaner it it will be sweet!! i bet

Defrag is done on a weekly basis as I don't want this collecting poop

As for the registry cleaner, what would you suggest as a good all rounder? I am upgrading my TuneUp Utilities 2004 to the new 2006 version shortly, though personally... What would you recommend mate?

--Lee

 

[Solaris17]

Defrag is done on a weekly basis as I don't want this collecting poop

As for the registry cleaner, what would you suggest as a good all rounder? I am upgrading my TuneUp Utilities 2004 to the new 2006 version shortly, though personally... What would you recommend mate?

--Lee

good man..we need NO poop!...as for the reg cleaner i was scouting around and found this nice free ware one best iv ever used for a free ware one it isnt bugged or anything creates back ups in the host folder and even has a couple options 4 tweaking ur os....i think its pretty nice and it isnt like the trial versions i found it the real deal....and besides that ive used it for a little over 2 months and picks up more than my norton sys works and their has been no problems w/ it deleting inportant backups because it makes this list and tells u y its deleting it ...if u choose to delete it. ...any ways try HERE its under reg cleaner on the right...or HERE
and if that dont work ill email it to ya its small like 300kb....

 

[Israar]

Cheers mate, downloaded and run your RegSeeker and it picked up 500 first time, which I deleted, 24 the next run, then 2 after that. After those three runs I ran it again to see that no more errors are there and its clean so far =)

Hopefully that will make an improvement on my system and thanks again for all the time you're giving me as it is time you can't have back -- Though I can tell you now I appreciate all the help I can get as there is nothing better than knowing there are a good bunch of people still living in this world

--Lee

 

[Solaris17]

....im glad our help is well helpin u out

 

[Israar]

....im glad our help is well helpin u out

Indeed =)

WoW is now fixed and playable, though to make sure everything works fine too, I have removed all of my mods and I'll keep WoW as it was with the retail installation, I'll stuff the bloody mods

Hopefully WoW will stay like this forever until I die lol, hopefully I'll live longer than I expect but if not, no worries either way haha!

--Lee