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Old 06-06-2008, 02:35 AM
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After quitting a game, and sometimes while just using FireFox, I'll get tiling - as in, "old" windows's artifacts stay up on the screen, I'll have to mouse over a tab or something in FF to get it to appear, and the system is generally pretty slow. I once had a problem where CoD4 would whine that it was out of video memory, which makes me think that's the issue.

My question is why this is happening. I was under the assumption that the 320MB of VRAM on the G80 8800GTS would be enough, though I'm running dual 1440x900 monitors. I have 2GB of RAM and usually there's no problem in that respect (taskman says I've got plenty free). The card is running at maybe 55C at load.

Any ideas? Should I sell this card for a 8800GT?
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Via sig - is this in XP or Vista? Or both?
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I don't boot into Vista nearly as much, so I can't say. I also don't game on it, which is when the majority of this happens.

I'll sometimes just get video errors in general: failure to create D3D device, etc. Restart fixes all of this, and the temperature of the card is well below normal.
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Graphics Card(s):
PNY 8800GTS 320MB OC 660/951MHz GPU/VRAM
Sound Card:
Sound Blaster Xtremegamer 7.1
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80GB + 500GB
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2x SATA
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Antec 900 + 620W Aerocool zeroDBA
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200mm top + 2 120mm front + 1 80mm back
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