Wednesday, July 18th 2007

NVIDIA Confirms GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Bug

Jul 18th, 2007 07:20 Discuss (27 Comments)

Users with all kinds of setups have been reporting problems, affecting some GeForce 8800 cards, and particularly the GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB. According to users from NVIDIA, eVGA, NVNews, Rage3F and Guru of 3D forums, the problem causes random slowdowns, often halving frame rates until the user alt-tabs out of the game and back in again. The problem doesn't appear to be tied to any particular hardware configuration, Windows version, or display setting. NVIDIA Technical Marketing Director Nick Stam confirmed today that NVIDIA is aware of this issue, and new drivers will be released some time in July to fix the problem.

Source: The Tech Report

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27 Comments on NVIDIA Confirms GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Bug

tkpenalty

O_o Explains why NFS:C Slowed down a lot...

Frederik S

Great news. This occurs often in CS:S nice that they are going to fix it :)

WarEagleAU

Bird of Prey

Someone in my family and one of my former co workers was telling me about this. I think he got the 8800GTS 640 or no, he got the GTX. Said it slowed down in a game for him and he didnt know why. Of course, I thought it was his processor cause he is running a 64 3400+ I believe (cant remember)

Boneface

I was getting the same problems in BF2142 and it happened just yesterday also. Drop from 100fps to 20 or 30fps. Nice that they are going to fix this

bruins004

DaMultaAMD/ATi FTW

Had to say it:)

It stuff like that that will turn this into a flame war.
At least it is found and is being resolved.

DaMulta

My stars went supernova

Your right...I'm going to delete that comment.

So this happens in all games? Even in the new DX10 ones? Is this problem in XP and Vista?

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

The problem occurs randomly, but an alt-tab or alt-enter (windowed mode) and returning fixes it. It was most commonly seen with AA enabled, and attributed to a memory leak, since it affected the 320MB far more than the 640MB.

Glad to hear NV are working on it at last.

HellasVagabond

Had that problem a couple of times....I just exited the game and back in.

c`LoW

man, this happend to me a lot in source =/ made me go crazy.

#10

anticlutch

So that explains why my FPS was so low... I was wondering why my 8800 was only getting ~30-40 fps in de_aztec at times when my x1950pro used to get at least 90fps... I hope nVidia fixes this bug as well as the bug that causes video to tear up soon. I'm getting kind of impatient waiting for fixes :(

#11

GLD

These cards have been out for a long time and nVidia is just now fessing up to this issue. WHAT? I wonder if they will actually fix the issue? I have been playing Far Cry with x64 XP Pro on my 7900GS. I think the slow down bug could effect the 7 series to. Could just be x64 as I never had problem with 32 bit XP.

In all honesty, my X850XT is a more desirable card to me then my 7900GS. Maybe I should sell my 7900GS and save up for a new/faster ATi card?

#12

demonbrawn

Ahhhh, i thought it was my NVidia chipset drivers all along...

#13

Demos_sav

I was having this slowdown on almost all of my games. So I thought it was a driver issue. So I found a leaked driver from Guru3D version 160.03 and it has fixed all of my problems. This problem no longer occurs and my system runs more stable than ever:rockout:

#14

yogurt_21

well at least you know a fix is on the way, as nv would have never admitted the problem unless they had a fix ready for release.

#15

Tom

Does anyone know if the beta driver Version: 162.18 on nvidias site is fixing this bug or ?

Just got myself a new 8800GTS card and want things to run fine.

#16

Tom

Demos_savI was having this slowdown on almost all of my games. So I thought it was a driver issue. So I found a leaked driver from Guru3D version 160.03 and it has fixed all of my problems. This problem no longer occurs and my system runs more stable than ever:rockout:

This driver you talk about here, it that for the 8000 series ?

If so you know where I can find this?

I downloaded the nvidia beta driver version 162.18, released 5 July 2007, not sure if they fixes the bug.

If anyone has more news about this please post :)

#17

Tom

Guess no one knows more about theese drivers ?

#18

Demos_sav

TomThis driver you talk about here, it that for the 8000 series ?

If so you know where I can find this?

I downloaded the nvidia beta driver version 162.18, released 5 July 2007, not sure if they fixes the bug.

If anyone has more news about this please post :)

Yes it is for the 8800 series. The version is 160.03 and was downloaded from Guru3d.com. If I find the link I'll post it here for you:D

EDIT:Just found it. It's for Windows 2000/XP. Click here for the link

#19

Tom

Demos_savYes it is for the 8800 series. The version is 160.03 and was downloaded from Guru3d.com. If I find the link I'll post it here for you:D

EDIT:Just found it. It's for Windows 2000/XP. Click here for the link

Thx for the link :)

I just wonder the beta driver 162.18, wouldnt this be newer than your 160.03 from Guru3D or ?

#20

Demos_sav

TomThx for the link :)

I just wonder the beta driver 162.18, wouldnt this be newer than your 160.03 from Guru3D or ?

I guess so...But, that driver was made by Guru3d. The beta driver is from nVidia and I have never tested it. I am happy with the one I currently have as I see no problems. But, YES it would be newer than mine:p

#21

Tom

Demos_savI guess so...But, that driver was made by Guru3d. The beta driver is from nVidia and I have never tested it. I am happy with the one I currently have as I see no problems. But, YES it would be newer than mine:p

Okay thx, I have just got a 8800GTS, what model do you have ?

I thought Guru3D was only putting up drivers made nvidia, didnt not know that they also make their own nvidia drivers.

#22

Demos_sav

TomOkay thx, I have just got a 8800GTS, what model do you have ?

I thought Guru3D was only putting up drivers made nvidia, didnt not know that they also make their own nvidia drivers.

I have the XFX 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition.

BTW: GURU3D don't make their own drivers. That version|(160.03) was leaked from nVIDIA amd they(Guru3D) modified it a bit

#23

Tom

Demos_savI have the XFX 8800 GTS 320MB XXX Edition.

BTW: GURU3D don't make their own drivers. That version|(160.03) was leaked from nVIDIA amd they(Guru3D) modified it a bit

Nice I have the same model version as you, inno3D 8800 GTS 320MB.

Will try these drivers later then I guess, if they work good for you chances are they work well for me also :)

Thx again.

#24

Mussels

Freshwater Moderator

all guru3d do is change the INF file to support more cards. they dont modify the DRIVER itself in any way. 160.03 was a quadro driver originally.

#25

kentarokaos

Demos_savI was having this slowdown on almost all of my games. So I thought it was a driver issue. So I found a leaked driver from Guru3D version 160.03 and it has fixed all of my problems. This problem no longer occurs and my system runs more stable than ever:rockout:

Are you sure this particular driver fixes the issue for you? It's version is before the BETA 162.18... And I know for sure that one doesn't fix the problem.

Has anyone tried any of the tweaked XTreme-G drivers from tweaksrus.com?

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