Your assistance please: Problem with graphics card, error message

[moiraesfate]

Ok, I wasn't sure where to put this particular issue so I hope its ok here.

I can't afford to buy the new graphics card in my sig just yet, so I'm stuck using my old GT 7600. Thing is, I'm having an issue but only when I play EQ2 (that I've noticed anyway but its hard to know since thats the game I play most) and very occasionally when I played the Sims 2 (which I haven't played enough on my new rig . Have to pay off the credit card first before I can buy the new card.

Now, something like this used to happen on my old rig but not to the extreme that its happening now.

I'd be playing and my computer would suddenly freeze for a minute or so (which sometimes got me killed) and then it would start as though nothing happened. No error messages or anything.

But with my new rig its more extreme. It not only freezes, but the screen goes black, the computer spins up, then it unfreezes and a message appears on my screen saying that there was an error with the graphics driver and it had to restart. And then everything goes back to normal until it does it again in a half hour to an hour.

Honestly, its scaring me a little bit. I can't afford to replace any parts in this computer atm. It cost me enough to buy them in the first place. Thats why I haven't overclocked even though I want to.

I'm trying to figure out what the problem is without having to buy a new card (I'm sure buying the new one will solve the problem). I'm going to be posting this on the EQ2 forum too but I've never heard of problems with the gt7600 before.

Do you have any ideas? Do you think that the graphics card might be the problem? Or the driver? Its happened with at least two different drivers now so I'm inclined to say that it isn't the driver.

[DaddyD302]

Try another driver. Your old one could be corrupted. Make sure you go into safe mode and use driver sweeper to clean out the old driver.

[moiraesfate]

I've tried two different drivers.

I actually had it suggested to me that the problem is probably that my old graphics card simply can't keep up to my new rig.

I think I've come to the conclusion that its just old and needs to be replaced.

[Dan444]

I've tried two different drivers.

I actually had it suggested to me that the problem is probably that my old graphics card simply can't keep up to my new rig.

I think I've come to the conclusion that its just old and needs to be replaced.

I doubt that you would get an error message that you are having a driver problem if your video card is the problem.

I do not think you mentioned what OS you are using, and I agree with the previous poster that you try different drivers, sometimes very old drivers are more stable than new ones; that depends upon many factors.

Sometimes drivers can be very frustrating. I used to know some of the old drivers that were stable, unfortunately, my memory is not very good and I cannot remember. I am not sure if guru3d.com has older drivers.

You can try their forums at http://forums.guru3d.com/ Scroll down to the Drivers sections.