Geeessss I thought it was just my machine!!! but mine is doing exactly the same as yours!
It just crashes out during games which is the reason I put the machine together in the first place… as a gamming rig.
Quad core machine on a eVGA mainboard with an 8800 GTS card and the latest drivers… its hopeless!
Ya , Ive got a Palit 8800 GTS 1GB , an Asus P5KC board , 4 GB of ram Corsair of course and an intel quad core , and the PhysX Physics card running Vista Ultimate 64 bit . I Had the Exact same issue your having . For me anyway I had t update the Bios on My motherboard , Reinstall vista and install the drivers in order of boot , Chipset , Graphics, lan …. Well I think thats the boot order . Im using Nvidias driver 175.16 only 1 artifact noticed in game. Oh and in steam if you click so skip the intro movies it will crash the driver so you must wait for them to complete but the it runs fine.
and now If nividias driver crashes windows just kicks it back to Vista Basic theme. I hope Nvidia picks up its act for Vista 64 bit soon or im going to ATI.
Im going to try the http://www.omegadrivers.net/ drivers . A few forms report good results with it in combination with overclocking the card with ForceWare Coolbits 2.0 .
I sadly get the same thing, but I also get the blue screen of death…
I bought the 8800 so I would have a kick ass machine, I have 64bit vista so I could use my 4 GIGS of RAM….
Why the hell is it so hard for them to fix this issue…
Geeessss I thought it was just my machine!!! but mine is doing exactly the same as yours!
It just crashes out during games which is the reason I put the machine together in the first place… as a gamming rig.
Quad core machine on a eVGA mainboard with an 8800 GTS card and the latest drivers… its hopeless!
Very disapointed with Nvidia drivers…..
Ya , Ive got a Palit 8800 GTS 1GB , an Asus P5KC board , 4 GB of ram Corsair of course and an intel quad core , and the PhysX Physics card running Vista Ultimate 64 bit . I Had the Exact same issue your having . For me anyway I had t update the Bios on My motherboard , Reinstall vista and install the drivers in order of boot , Chipset , Graphics, lan …. Well I think thats the boot order . Im using Nvidias driver 175.16 only 1 artifact noticed in game. Oh and in steam if you click so skip the intro movies it will crash the driver so you must wait for them to complete but the it runs fine.
and now If nividias driver crashes windows just kicks it back to Vista Basic theme. I hope Nvidia picks up its act for Vista 64 bit soon or im going to ATI.
Im going to try the http://www.omegadrivers.net/ drivers . A few forms report good results with it in combination with overclocking the card with ForceWare Coolbits 2.0 .
Well Good luck on fixing the Crashing problem .
Heres a blog article you might find interesting – http://gizmodo.com/373076/nvidia-responsible-for-nearly-30-of-vista-crashes-in-2007
I sadly get the same thing, but I also get the blue screen of death…
I bought the 8800 so I would have a kick ass machine, I have 64bit vista so I could use my 4 GIGS of RAM….
Why the hell is it so hard for them to fix this issue…