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[Nvyseal]

images/news/nvidia.jpg8800 slowdown is "Problem of complex nature

As it stands right now, a

fix for this highly annoying bug is planned for a release between the end of August and middle of September. My personal assumption would be that the latter date is a more realistic one. Nvidia stated that this problem is "of complex nature," and it seems to us that fixing one card leads to issues with another.

We wonder whether something went wrong in the whole 320-bit/384-bit memory controller combination, or whether the problem is caused by the fact that game developers were creating games with 256/512/1024 MB boards in mind, and Nvidia showed up with 320/640/768MB ones?

Just in case, if you play Battlefield and are one of numerous gamers plagued by the slowdown problem, Alt+Tab is not the answer you might need. Pascal, one of our readers came back to us and told us that Nvidia encourages you to use special button in the main page of the menu - this button opens a browser outside the game, and then you can swap back into the game without having the game screen destroyed.

It seems that the race for the most interesting/annoying bug of 2007 is now officially open.

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[chriso_86]

Yeah, I read this earlier today and I really can't say that I've ever seen this problem with my system. But maybe it'll give me some higher fps or something.

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chriso_86, on Jul 31 2007, 07:22 PM, said:

Yeah, I read this earlier today and I really can't say that I've ever seen this problem with my system. But maybe it'll give me some higher fps or something.

Haha, if you only play WoW it's kinda normal you don't have problems with texture memory! Maybe if you played LOTRO though. It is and looks much better!




You know I'm kidding, I play WoW too...