Ænigma Guild

So my comp is kinda messed at the moment, and it's all thanks to some lovely Nv4_disp loop error. I've read a few articles written about the problem, but in all of them it's a pretty complex series of testing things out in an attempt to isolate exactly what is wrong... so after harassing Yume with questions about the problem, I figured I'd post here looking for suggestions, cause as wonderfully good as I am getting at this stuff, I still don't think I'm on level to fix this one myself! I am considering changing my OS or buying a new video card, but both of these options seem a bit extreme seeing as i'm using xp now and a geforce 7900gt... which are both safely in the "not out of date" spectrum, I think.

Just format.

http://www.nekrosoft.net/XDC/XDC_0.35.rar

1) Download
2) uninstall drivers using device manager
3) restart in Safemode run XDC cleaning with NVIDIA
4) restart back into windows then download and install XG-160.02

http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?opti ... Itemid=41/

Formatted last week =P

Denial wrote:http://www.nekrosoft.net/XDC/XDC_0.35.rar

1) Download
2) uninstall drivers using device manager
3) restart in Safemode run XDC cleaning with NVIDIA
4) restart back into windows then download and install XG-160.02

http://www.tweaksrus.com/index.php?opti ... Itemid=41/

nope =(, i'll do it again tomorrow to see if I did everything correctly, but im pretty sure it didn't work.

When does the error occur? After playing a game for a while? When you first start the game? Are you even playing a game?

Denial wrote:When does the error occur? After playing a game for a while? When you first start the game? Are you even playing a game?

Immediately when I start a game I experience screen tearing and stuff, and it is only games like WoW or Oblivion that it happens with. If I keep the game up and on the screen, the tearing gets progressively worse and the computer will lock up, go to a blue screen, or sometimes I can close it with cntrl alt dlt. I'll PM you a very pretty screen capture I got which I can't post here cause it has my account name and i'm too lazy to photoshop it off.

someone suggested the tearing is a sign of the card overheating, but ive checked the temps and they are waaaaay low, and the fan is free of dust.

a friend of mine directed me to http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?Pa ... leID=9&P=1 , but as I stated before I was just praying for something simpler... but I really should just start going through the steps to sort it out.

oh, aside from tearing, when I could run the games I would get nifty polygons shooting across the screen in random places, and fun holes in the world and such. I should also note that I can still run games like Diablo 2 9/10 times without it locking up the computer (I experience no tearing with it, the computer just locks up).

btw, thanks for your interest Denial

Powersupply?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQzIg0CPW5Q

Pretend that printer is your PC.

my old computer used to do someshit like that with wow and cs, cept with wow it would do the flicker shit as cavos rankil and a few others seen, but tearing happened alot, almost in every game like NFS carbon wow CS:S, except War3. that was a nvidia geforce 5700 ultra.

Savior` wrote:my old computer used to do someshit like that with wow and cs, cept with wow it would do the flicker shit as cavos rankil and a few others seen, but tearing happened alot, almost in every game like NFS carbon wow CS:S, except War3. that was a nvidia geforce 5700 ultra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mru5qKHEss

This happened to me just a couple weeks ago and after two hours on the phone with Dell they sent me a new video card and all was well.