I just picked up a Gainward Geforce FX 5700 Ultra 256mb 880 power pack video card. When ever I launch a game (and with games only) I get a few seconds of smooth looking graphics then it starts to get very glitchy on me, I've tried downloading the latest and archived drivers from Nvida, adjusting every setting that I can think of and I still get bad on screen visuals. :-(

If anyone else has had this problem if you could please throw me a bone and let me know what you had to do to hopefully fix this problem I'd appreacitate it very much!

PC stats:
1.8 Intel Processor
D850GB Intel Motherboard
768mb PC-800 Memory
400w Antec Power Supply
Nvidia 5700 Ultra

What are the game requirements?

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Cant remeber off the top of my head, and i cant seem to find the manuals either at the moment, but i do know Jedi Knights 2 should run no problem with this card and it's not, neither is Counter Stike.

Joe

were you finally able to resolve your gainward vid card problem?
Im thinking of getting this card and would like to know.

cheers, Yasmin

I had to send the card back after I put it in 4 other PC's. I never could get the card to work right. It may have been a defective card, I did hear of other people having trouble with that same card though so I'd just make sure who ever you buy it from has a good return policy. Hope ya have better luck than I did.

Joe

I know that for JoeTurbo this comes a little too late but hopefully if Yasmin has any problems with one this may help him out. I'm sorry I couldn't get to this sooner. But did you check the temp of your system and video card? Normally lagging and glitchy graphic are a good sign of over heating. If you did check these things and they were ok, then I would say that it was a pretty good bet that the card was bad. Once again sorry I was late on a reply I hope this may help in the future.

PCXGamer

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Thanks for the advice. I'm a girl actually!
Anyway..my new pc has a gale running through it with so many fans,
so let's see how things go. I anted that card for it's VIVO functions.
As I would like to record my movies from video camera.

Hi Joe
Thanks for the update, i am purchasing the card from a dealer that provides
a 3yr onsite guarantee so it should be ok.

That was the first thing I did when I started to get bad visuals and everything was in the normal range for that card So I've decided to get a Nvidia 6800 GT 256 instead once I get all the other parts ordered for my PC I'll get that ordered and hopefully have a blast playing HL2 on it.