Artifacts when running 2 or more windows

[Biz]

I recently purchased an Nvidia 9600gt. It is great except when I open 2 or more WoW windows I start getting video artifacts, usually in only one window. All other games run fine with no artifacts. GPU temp is at 38C which is well within the limit so I'm not sure what the issue is. I'm debating whether to exchange the card for a new one, but I've had problems with WoW and Nvidia before so perhaps WoW just doesn't like Nvidia. Any ideas?

[Anozireth]

With a card that new, my guess would be that this is a driver issue. Are you running XP or Vista? The drivers for DX10 cards are likely best optimized for Vista (since XP can't take advantage of the DX10 features anyway). One option would be to try running WoW in OpenGL mode and see if that does anything for you.

[Biz]

I run on XP. I'll run it in OpenGL when I get home. Got a few other things I want to try but if I can't fix it tonight I'm just going to get a replacement and hope that solves the problem.

[Hotnutz]

Well here we go again with problems. Hopefully it's just my drivers.

I have a Radeon HD 2600 Pro, I was using the updated driver without the catalyst software ( wouldnt run cuz no sp2 at the time) and it ran like a champ.

Couple of variables here. yesterday my hard drive crashed so I had to reinstall everything. So I was thinking well ill do sp2 and get Catalyst control center working, maybe I can get some better frame rates outta something.

also I downloaded the most up to date keyclone. ( was using one just previous to newest.)

Ok so I'm gettin the weird frag stuff shapes all over the place but it seems to choose 1 window at a time to do it on. ALSO.... i see it do this little glitch with keyclone like its gonna do the PiP swap for a split second (i see a quick glimpse of my small window where my large one is) about every couple of seconds its doing this.

So I guess im gonna try more drivers for my vid card, maybe remove the catalyst software, and try the previous version of keyclone. one at a time to see if any of this eliminates the problem.

Hopefully my findings will be of some assistance to you as well. Any1 else got any bright ideas??

After doing a full reinstall of windows, updates, WoW, addons, and re-setting up all my macros and keybinds I'm not looking forward to dealing with this bullshit lol. EDIT: epecially since my shammys are 1 bar from hitting lvl 66 (earth elementals FTW!)

[Hotnutz]

Well I dont know if this info could help you in any way, but I removed the software for my video card and used just the driver (same driver) and now the keyclone glitching and the artifacts have all gone bye bye.

I still have excess lagg tho im guessing from sp2, I only have 1gb of ram.

[Anozireth]

Definitely want to add more RAM if you've only got 1GB. It's gotten much cheaper lately, I just bought 2GB worth for $40. It depends on what type you need of course.

[Mudd]

Do the artifacts cause the ground to disappear and random triangles mostly pointing to the middle of the screen?

[Biz]

Do the artifacts cause the ground to disappear and random triangles mostly pointing to the middle of the screen?

The ground doesn't ever really dissappear, but yes, it is mostly lines and triangles pointing roughly to the middle of the screen. Some of them seem to be at a random angle though.

[Mudd]

If you haven't already, try updating to the latest beta nvidia driver. I was seeing this happen when upgrading to a driver from december 2007. It would happen while running single client and terrain distance set to max. When running 5-clients it would happen after an hour or so.

[Thedonsquad]

I'm currently running dual 9600GT's in DirectX with no arifact issues theres a few tricks to it though,

1: uninstall your video drivers
2: re-install DirectX 10 via http:\\download.microsoft.com
3: install the latest drivers from nvidia
4: make sure to turn off full screen glow, death glow effect, and vertical sync in each wow and turn on the triangle reducing option

you should be good to go