[OT]Video Problems - Single or MultiBoxing - nVidia 7900GT

[zanthor]

Just wanted to bounce this off here because there is such a solid technical crowd...

My graphics in WoW have been doing similar artifacts to this for quite some time, it used to be rarely and it's stepped up to more and more often. I run a 7900gt with a zalman copper cooler on it, the cpu never budges on it's temp and it's nice and low (I don't recall the temp right now, but I did research it before and it was well below what anyone considered too hot)... the card isn't overclocked, blah blah...

Anyhow, an example of the corruption:

http://www.botbh.com/images/corruption.jpg

This will come and go during gaming sessions. Last night for example with 3 copies of wow running I had this on one copy of it. After 3-4 minutes it went away. Other common distortions have to do with names, textures flicking light/dark... the world textures looking like auto-glass through a polorized lense (checkerboarded), etc.

I'm pursuing an RMA at this time, but wanted anything else I may try... I've ran the gambit of drivers and updates, etc.

[unit187]

try to turn on vertical sync, might help

[zanthor]

try to turn on vertical sync, might help

Saddly been there, Vsync, tripple buffering, I've tried an insane amount of combinations on settings as well as drivers.

[caldvn]

omega drivers

[Stabface]

Are you running the multiple instances of WoW from separate directories?

Actually that looks almost like a z-buffer problem... what is your depth buffer setting?

[zanthor]

Are you running the multiple instances of WoW from separate directories?

Actually that looks almost like a z-buffer problem... what is your depth buffer setting?

When I three box I run one copy from a full install of WoW and the other two from a mostly simlinked copy of wow.

I actually got an RMA from MSI today, it appears this is a known issue with the 7900gt's and I'll be getting a new card sometime next week.