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Hi all,
Long time happy member here who is finally getting around to contributing with some posts : )
I was having some serious, inexplicable sudden drops to desktops (no crash messages), crashes with messages, and even blue screen deaths over and over trying to play Civ4 anyhwere from 2 to 20 minutes apx after starting it.
It was annoying, frustrating.
Using some blue screen info, I was eventually able to track it down to an nVidia technician blog to something peculiar to nVidia GeForce Go 7600 and other such numbered cards. It took nVidia techs quite a while to figure it out, but they made a fix for it called "nv4loopfix".
The cards have a special feature ironically to boost performance, which delays video writes or something, and in situations where the card/systems specs are being pushed hard by Civ 4 or other games/apps, the card can go into an infinite loop with such delays and immediately crashes.
I was glad it wasn't my hard drive with unknown bad sectors, nor RAM errors, and haven't had such a crash again for weeks : )
Well, I hope that saves someone else a lot of time and grief, you can read the nVidia technician forum about it, and download it from:
DMJ
Long time happy member here who is finally getting around to contributing with some posts : )
I was having some serious, inexplicable sudden drops to desktops (no crash messages), crashes with messages, and even blue screen deaths over and over trying to play Civ4 anyhwere from 2 to 20 minutes apx after starting it.
It was annoying, frustrating.
Using some blue screen info, I was eventually able to track it down to an nVidia technician blog to something peculiar to nVidia GeForce Go 7600 and other such numbered cards. It took nVidia techs quite a while to figure it out, but they made a fix for it called "nv4loopfix".
The cards have a special feature ironically to boost performance, which delays video writes or something, and in situations where the card/systems specs are being pushed hard by Civ 4 or other games/apps, the card can go into an infinite loop with such delays and immediately crashes.
I was glad it wasn't my hard drive with unknown bad sectors, nor RAM errors, and haven't had such a crash again for weeks : )
Well, I hope that saves someone else a lot of time and grief, you can read the nVidia technician forum about it, and download it from:
DMJ
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