Wednesday, August 1st 2007
NVIDIA Vows to Fix GeForce 8800 by Mid-September
NVIDIA confirmed a couple days ago that their GeForce 8800 series (in particular, the GTS 320MB version) suffers from a texture slowdown "of complex nature". Thankfully, NVIDIA is wasting no time in fixing the problem. We already have a timeframe for when we can expect an end to this "highly annoying" bug. NVIDIA expects to have a working fix to this problem by late August at the earliest, and mid September at the latest. The Inquirer has found that the easiest way to avoid the problem is to not press the Alt-Tab key combination while switching between game window and program window.
Source:
The Inquirer
11 Comments on NVIDIA Vows to Fix GeForce 8800 by Mid-September
LIES!
You're not going to run into a battle online with thirty other people and shit blowing up left and right and have your FPS stay at the previous cruising speed of 75 or higher.
This issue has more to do with when the FPS drops, that it does not return to normal/avg rates when you leave said areas in a game or said situations.
It's probably texture memory that's not being purged. You can write your own small batch file to do this manually or automatically.