Video Card issues; AND Pop-up issues

[Glock23]

Ok, as the title suggests, I have two issues.

First of all, the video card issue, which is infinitely more important. I have this card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814125156), got it about a month and a half ago. I have tried about every driver from 78.01 to the latest one, 81.94, and with all of them, when I try to play any 3-D intensive game, I get about a good 10-30 minutes in, and it freezes up, and then auto-reboots.

It will run all day in 2-d mode; basic usage of the comp, flash, dvd's, nothing of the sort freezes it up. It's only games such as Guild Wars and the like.

Anyone have any ideas on this?

The second part is that I randomly get IE popups, but I've not used IE as a browser in due time. I assume there is something common there that needs to be fixed, but I don't know what it is.

It also should be noted that the popup thing didn't start until I got started up at home, not on the dorm network, which has a pretty intricate firewall set up at the router level.

Again, any ideas?

TIA for help, this video card issue would be ace to solve in about 2 seconds :(

[[Political] Slayer]

yeah, I am getting the IE popups too, and I am using firefox, and haven't used IE in over a year.

[StandingCow]

Sounds like your video card is over heating to me...

any graphic corruption?

Could also be Direct X being screwed up.

For the popups see the sticky about spyware removal.

[Glock23]

There was corruption when I turned the graphics to an above average level for Guild Wars; I figured I could since the game runs very well on any computer, and should be extra pretty on my rig. When I set the slider to full, at 1280x1024 and 4x AA, the ground turns into noticeable squares, instead of blended tiles. When I turn down the AA to 3x or 2x, the problem fixes, but comes back when I zone. I turn off AA, and the problem still exists when I zone, unless I turn the graphics all the way down to the lowest they go on GW.

Either way, maxed or lowest, it still freezes up anywhere from 10 min to 30 min into playing, usually only when I leave a town and start actually playing the game.

It could be overheating, as RivaTuner usually says it's at about 70C during load, in games like GW.

But I've heard of this card getting up over 90C without shutting down, so IDK.

Argh, so frustrated.

[siddy]

70C is fine for a 6600

What's your PSU?

and for popups, just try the usual adaware, spybot, and microsoft anti-spyware thingy, all in safemode.

[StandingCow]

If you have a good PSU.. I would say your card may be fucked up :(

[Glock23]

What's your PSU?

PSU == http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817103459

I have an AMD Athlon64 3000+ Winchester core, RS480IL2 Motherboard, 80 gig Maxtor IDE HD, 250GB Western Digital SATA HD, 4x512 MB of RAM as well.

/edit Should I just RMA it for a replacement, and see if I get anywhere with that? I have onboard graphics, so it's not VITAL OMG NOW, but I'd like to play HL2/GW at something beyond shitty quality. :/

[Captain Colon]

420W should be plenty...300W is the minimum requirement for the 6600 AFAIK. I ran my brother's 6600 no problem in lost cost with full settings (XP2600+, 1gb ram, 3 HDDs, like 4 fans, etc. etc.)


Dunno about the pop-ups since you said you did adaware/spybot scans and stuff...did you do a pandascan to make sure it's not some kind of virus? We all know computer viruses spread almost as fast as syphilis in college :o

My computer doesn't get pop-ups, but I'll randomly get that clicking noise that you get when you click a link in IE (the default sound)...nothing opens or anything but it's weird. Nothing shows up on pandascan or spybot ever.