VeeshanVault

A few months ago - I logged into Everquest and my graphics kept freezing - I couldn't move in eq.

I have a geforce 4 ti4600 - I ended up putting my old graphics card back in and the problem was solved - I tried basically everything, reinstalling drivers, checking to see if the fan works, reinstalling drivers again.

The reason I'm posting this now is because two other people in CD have had the same problem, one has the same card as I have, and the other person has a geforce 3 ti500.

Has anyone else had this problem with geforce cards within the first 2 years of having them?

Sounds like a heat issue.


Is the new card crowding anything else inside the case?

No - the thing is, the card was working fine for all of us, we didn't make any changes just one day logged into EQ to it freezing.

Have two computers with GeForce 4 Ti's (one 4400 and the other 4600 i believe) and neither had freezing issues like you describe. Dunno what it could be if it just started happening one day as you describe.

Must be the Illuminati

#1: Uninstall your current drivers via Add/Remove Programs.

#2: After uninstalling the drivers. Reboot back to Windows.

#3: When it wants to install the 'new' Video Card it found just insall it as a Standard VGA Card.

#4: Download and install NVidia v43.35 drivers. Stay away from 44.03 and higher. I have heard nothing but complaint after complaint about them driver. Yes, Im sure you (not meaning Thess) run them and have no issues, but many others do.

#5: Reboot back to Windows when install is complete.

#7: Setup your colors and resolution as you like.

#8: Start EQ and see if that helps...

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If the above does not work then you might try the following:

Reinstall DirectX 8.1 or DirectX9 (if you use it)

After you reinstall DirectX do #1-8 again.

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Heres some advise for you also. Make sure your first PCI slot next to your AGP port is free. Dont install anything in the slot, ever.

my friend is having the same problem, check your voltages was what someone told him

I have a Geforce 2 Ti (please don't laugh too hard), and I have the exact same problems.. one day smooth, the next day I started video locking lots.. today was horrific, as I was locking every 10 seconds or so.

Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers isn't helping either.

My card started doing that recently, but the fan was bad and spinning slow so I imagine it was due to overheating. I sent it off to have it replaced today so I'm running off a TNT2 32mb card now. *groan*

I have 4 GeForce4 cards...

MX440 (forget brand)
Ti4200 (forget brand)
Ti4600 Asylum
Ti4600 PNY Vertgo

All of them work no problem so far....

I had a GeForce 2 GTS that had some issues, but that was my fault because I cracked the solder on the MB's AGP slot on accident.

I had another issue like that with my GeForce2 MX400 where my MB's VIA chip set had soem old drivers tha didn't quite work with my network card (Linksys) so my machine would freeze because the internet traffic of EQ to my machine would make my network card freeze the whole machine.

But if your was working stable for a long time and you did nothing recently, you shuoldn't have those problems.

Yup Thess I've been getting the same exact problem with the same video card here lately.

I think I've died more in the last couple weeks from this than I have had legit deaths.

Not sure about the cooling issue my fans on the video card seem to be running fine and I have a case fan I added just behind the card pulling air out.

NFC but would love to find out something that works.
Gonna give the old drivers a shot tonight.

Someone mentioned that there was some issue with some geforce cards and DirectX9. I can't say for sure, haven't logged on recently enough to check.

On a related note, anyone know how I could "downgrade" back to 8.1 if I do log on, since I've got the same card people seem to be having trouble with? At least then I'd find out if it was DX or not.

Download 'dxkiller' from either http://www.download.com or http://www.tucows.com, it should work.

I had the same freezing running DX8.1 so i upgraded to see if that helped, it didn't.

I also have some issues where my computer just spontaneously reboots or shuts down EQ, it's pretty rare but annoying as hell when it happens. Does anyone have any idea how to fix that?

Possibility is the fault in the RAM on the card or your main RAM run a scan on both to make sure its still going at full capacity.
A problem in your main RAM will shut down the program thats using it, when it hits the faulty section.

I currently have an unusual video error that appers with yellow strips down my screen or dotted lines. That is caused from card slippage at the end of the AGP socket near the rear edge of the mainboard- fix no cards near at all (sound card and network card stuck at the bottom), and a spacer pushing that part out a bit enough to get the video card to sit in the socket fully. Best fix is a new mainboard as most likely going to get same fault eventually with same video card size, replacement video card also works (but mroe expensive in my case)

Hope either of those two help. Thats if you've been through every software update or backtrack going.

Im having a strange trouble as well, although not the same one you explain. Thing is, in every game where there is heavy effects, like smoke, explosions, some types of water etc, basically, different kinds of particle effects, the game goes unusually slow, low FPS. It seems as if it glides through slowly, mouse becomes all weird etc. Then when i face away, it's all great again. Happends even in games where it really shouldn't be happening. Im using a gf4600 ti, and the rest of the computer is top notch.

Im really starting to develop a seizure over this. Must be something wrong with the card, because i have tested everything else there is to test i belive.

Anyone else had this trouble ?

mine was doing that a bit and finally blew up, i stuck old one back in and no probs.

I'm one of the people with the problem that Thess mentioned. I ran with the case open and noticed that my Geforce4ti was emitting a ton of heat. It was almost burning to the touch, and though the fan was running, the sound it made was rather strange.

I've done everything I could looking for a softwear problem short of formating my harddrive, so I'm pretty sure it's the card itself overheating. If it's some kind of planned obsolecence from PNY to buy new cards I'm going to be angry! ><

Oh well, I'm going to start saving up for a new card like a good capitalist!