GeForce 8800 GTS Crashing

For some reason whenever I play some of the better looking games My comp screen turns a funky color (any). Its pissing me off because it seems to be only the RPGs. I can play Sins of a solar empire, Company of Heroes, WoW and Soulstorm.

But when I try to play Oblivion, and Neverwinter Nights 2, it crashes. (see above)

I played CoD4 it was alright for a bit, then I turned it down a bit, (resolution) and it worked.

The 169.21 forceware winxp 32bit english whql okay?Zekonos

Yeah

Guess what, I have those and it still crashes dude.Zekonos

Try different ones, or try reinstalling them, also check your temperatures.

OK, I checked the Nvidia website and it says that the ones that I have are the latest ones

*EDIT*

The temp is 65C

Corsair CMPSU-620HX 620W ATX Triple 12V 50A 24PIN ATX Modular Power Supply 120MM Fan 2X PCI-E

Thats my power supply, dont know everything about it though

The power supply is more than powerful enough. I think its a driver issue. As I said try uninstalling then reinstalling the drivers.

Also did you have a different graphics card before and you upgraded?

This is an entirely new rig dude

also, how do you uninstall drivers without completely screwing up your computer?

This is an entirely new rig dudeZekonos

Just checking, sometimes when people switch cards problems like this can occur. As I said download driver cleaner, uninstall the drivers then reinstall them.

Also do you have 3DMark?

3Dmark? Havent heard of it, so I dont think soZekonos

Don't worry about it then, its just a way to see if your card is performing as well as it should be. Another thing, did you install patches for Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights?

Yup, 1.2 for Oblivion and 1.11 for NWN2Zekonos

Does the problem happen right away when you start the game or do you play for a bit and then the problem occurs?

I play for a little bit (like 5mins) then the screen just turns a solid color (black, purple mostly, though others Ive seen).Zekonos

Sounds like overheating, if it was a driver issue it would happen as soon as it loads up.

Run the control panel in the backgound with the temperature logging and then as soon as the problem happens, exit out and tell us what your temperatures were.

How would one such as myself reduce heating (mind you I dont overclock) I do have a nice heatsink.Zekonos

Log the temperatures while playing first so we can see how severe it is.

Okay, the temp while playing on the card is about 68 degrees Celsius. The GPU1 is about the same except it sometimes goes up to 70 degrees Celsius.Zekonos

Hmm that isnt hot at all, that is very strange. And you say it only happens in these two games? never in the others?

Its happened a few times in CS:S and whenever I zoom out a lot in SC: FA demo. But thats about it. Btw thanks for helping me so far, manZekonos

Well we know what it isnt:

1. Well obviously we can rule out overheating.

2. Its not a Power Issue.

3. Your card most likely isnt damaged if there are games where you haven't seen any problems.

What else can you do?

1. It may still be a driver issue, so removing your drivers completely and reinstalling them may fix it.

2. Make sure you have every component updated, includes CPU, motherboard, etc...

3. A radical idea would also be to try to uninstalling and reinstalling Oblivion and Neverwinter Nights (Last Resort Try).

k, well I dont want to screw up my comp so I have just been reinstalling the nVidia drivers, but maybe I should uninstall the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable, so, tell if I shouldnt before I do something really stupid.Zekonos

No don't uninstall anything right now except the Nvidia drivers and have the installer allready downloaded so you can simply install it after your PC reboots.

This is wierd, when I try to uninstall Oblivion I get this message:

>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (390) PAPP:Oblivion PVENDOR:Bethesda Softworks (http://www.bethsoft.com) PGUID:35CB6715-41F8-4F99-8881-6FC75BF054B0 $11.0.0.28844 @Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) BT_OTHER 0.0

This is wierd, when I try to uninstall Oblivion I get this message:

>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (390) PAPP:Oblivion PVENDOR:Bethesda Softworks (http://www.bethsoft.com) PGUID:35CB6715-41F8-4F99-8881-6FC75BF054B0 $11.0.0.28844 @Windows XP Service Pack 2 (2600) BT_OTHER 0.0

Zekonos

Thats strange, did it uninstall though?

Negative, it just gave me that messageZekonos

Did you go through add/remove programs?

I tried both ways, through the Add/Remove programs and all the other ways.Zekonos

Did you try deleting the game data, in Program Files/Bethesda/Oblivion?

Well, the way I did it, was I deleted the game data, then I explored the disc and ran the setup.Zekonos

Ok so you reinstalled it now? does it work?

I installed that processor patch, and oblivion still crashes

Well, I gotta go to sleep, its 10:50 here