nVidia 7900 GT/GTX owners, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

NameWasTaken · November 2006

I have recently upgraded from my old ATi 9800XT card to a new nVidia 7900GTX 512Mb. My DDO game went from being more or less stable, to now suffering from black screens, corrupted graphics, poor performance, system locks and crashes to desktop errors every 5 minutes of game time.

Checking though the DDO technical forums, reveals an avalanche of 7900 GT/GTX owners who are also suffering from these issues.

If you have an nVidia 7900 GT/GTX card, DO NOT waste your money on this game!

Slntasn · November 2006

Thanks, but that's what the trial is for ::::20::

grimboj · November 2006

Have you tried playing any other games or did you just flame their forums too? When the game came out all the ATI users got together and whined like this too - then they suddenly bothered to update their drivers (including me) and oh look the whining stopped

Games very rarely cause system locks unless something is seriously wrong - consider that your power supply is not powerful enough or you have added the additional power cable on a line with something heavy like 2 hard disks that interrupt the power flow to your graphics card. Update to the latest drivers and consider alternative 3rd party drivers. Get a tool to check your GPU temp and replace the sissy stock heat sink if necessary and get the latest drivers for your mobos chip set.

NameWasTaken · November 2006

Originally posted by grimboj
Have you tried playing any other games or did you just flame their forums too?

Well if Turbine did not produce $hit games, when I would not see the need to flame their forums... now would I!

Originally posted by grimboj
When the game came out all the ATI users got together and whined like this too - then they suddenly bothered to update their drivers (including me) and oh look the whining stopped

Well I am happy for you then. As for me I am running the latest Forceware and nForce 590 drivers. I have all updates installed and running. I even rolled drivers back a few versions to test for new incompatibilites, but to no avail. This game WILL NOT run on a 7900GTX!

Originally posted by grimboj
Games very rarely cause system locks unless something is seriously wrong - consider that your power supply is not powerful enough or you have added the additional power cable on a line with something heavy like 2 hard disks that interrupt the power flow to your graphics card.

BULL$HIT! I have seen games crash and burn systems badly when they overstress key components. As for the PSU, I am running a 550W Antec True Power 2.0... THAT should be enough to run this game. Also I am only running a single Maxtor 320Gb SATA II drive, so there are no heavy duty components hogging all the power in my system.

Originally posted by grimboj
Update to the latest drivers and consider alternative 3rd party drivers. Get a tool to check your GPU temp and replace the sissy stock heat sink if necessary and get the latest drivers for your mobos chip set.

Drivers done, system updated... no improvement. I am using an AMD stock heat sink. I would like to think that AMD would know to cool their own CPU, FFS!

Also, I have a LAN friend of mine, with a completely different chipset but with an 7900GTX nVdia card who has never run DDO before. He installs, patches and runs DDO and... surprise, surprise, the game crashes, black screens and corrupts his desktop just like my computer.

It's NOT the computer that's faulty... it is the GAME!

Elapsed · November 2006

The 7900 series is prone to overheating. Here's EVGA's page about it, http://www.evga.com/articles/317.asp Could it be DDO pushes the card to the max and it can't handle it? Not really DDO's fault but a poorly designed product.

Frek · November 2006

Originally posted by -Jaguar-
The 7900 series is prone to overheating. Here's EVGA's page about it, http://www.evga.com/articles/317.asp Could it be DDO pushes the card to the max and it can't handle it? Not really DDO's fault but a poorly designed product.

7900's are not prone to overheating. The article you pointed to has nothing to do with overheating. It's a flaw in EVGA cards that is causing artifacting(probably cheap memory on certain batches).

If you won't take my word for it then go do a little research on the 7900 series card. They are some of the coolest running cards on the market due to their low power consumption and small die size. I have a 7900 GT and under full I can place my finger on the back of the card where the chipset is and leave it there. I know because I tried.

Travincal · November 2006

Im using Asus EN7900gt and dont have heat problems or any bad grafics in game and can easy get more then 80FPS

axyrn · December 2006

The original Poster is a Tard.......... He should learn how to configure systems before he cries out like a little baby.

The game runs perfect on every Nvidia Card with 79xx chip.

best to close this tread....

geemanjr · December 2006

I have a question how do you check your frames per second when playing a game?

Somnulus · December 2006

Originally posted by geemanjr
I have a question how do you check your frames per second when playing a game?

Just had to bounce in to answer this question.

There are several utilities that will monitor your FPS and display it as an overlay onscreen while you are playing. FRAPS is probably the most well known and most versatile of them, because it also makes videos from screen capture.

rafaelrehn · December 2006

Running the game on above mentioned card without any problems. BUT the bloody thing does overheat running Gothic 3 so I guess Ii'll spam their forums and not NVIDIA'S