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Spec: Pentium 4 3GHz HT, 1Gb RAM, GeForce 7600GT 256mb, 160Gb Hard Drive
Any solutions would be welcome
Never mind, like you've said in a previous post, just wait for CoD 4. If the trailers are to be believed, it looks set to be a must buy.
> Question - can a game fry a graphics card?
> Because that is what it appears. Bioshock ran like a dream, and
> yes you could say the card may have been failing - but it's
> bizarre. Had cards fail before, but not like this.
Its not impossible, but its not likely either. A game has fairly limited access to a graphics card really. Exposure is limited to what the graphics drivers and (in windows) what directx allows. So there arent too many opportunities to do major damage that wont be caught by either of them. I know both Bioshock and Airborne use the unreal 3 engine but I imagine Airborne was just stressing the card in a way that Bioshock doesnt.
I can relate a similar tale in fact. My gfx card is on the way out too. Even though my PSU is fine the card seems incapable of drawing enough power from it. When I benchmark the card, it posts results something like a third of what it should do. Yet I can still run Bioshock at details levels and framerates that are normal for my card. Unreal tournment 3 (same game engine again)doesnt run at all either. And I've no doubt some day soon I'll try a game that'll make the card keel over permanently.
> All sorted now, installed new BFG Geforce 7900GS OC tonight. I'm
> not going to tempt fate and re-install MOH Airborne for love nor
> money.
Hey, at least your card is still under warranty. Nows the time to try it. :)
> Never mind, like you've said in a previous post, just wait for
> CoD 4. If the trailers are to be believed, it looks set to be a
> must buy.
The demo is really nice, quite immersive. Not sure if its not over scripted though.
Spent 3/4hr on the phone to MicroDirect, who supplied the INNO3D card. Finally was asked for card's serial number. Not bad, but card at home me at work!! Never mind, Returns Dept would send email requesting number - not yet they haven't. On receipt of Returns number, I can, at my own cost, return it to them and they will send it to INNO3D in Taiwan for repair or replacement - about 4 weeks!!!
You can now perhaps see why I bought a new one. This warranty doesn't seem to be worth the paper it's written on!!!
Any way, happy now - got my right arm back...ha ha
> over scripted though.
I downloaded the demo from xbox live it was rubbish!!!!!!!!!
PhysX is quite popular to use because theres no licensing fee attached to using it unless you want the source code (they're trying to encourage adoption of their hardware of course).
However I think its fair comment that the ability to patch games encourages some publishers to push games out the door a bit quicker than they should be.