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gaming is a slideshow

MARSTG

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I decided to game a little on the 9800GX2 I have for folding. I stopped the folding first, completely, then I started to game. Pretty soon, less than 30 seconds after the game started. it transformed into a slideshow. Card is folding fine, but gaming is very slow : I disabled PhysX, I disabled SLI, I game on 1024x768, no AA, tried Anisotropic filtering, Trilinear filtering, Shaders to medium, world detail to medium. BTW the game is NFS Carbon. Can this be a sign the card is dying? Folding is fine, card produces in excess of 10K PPD on default settings, never rises over 80 deg C.
 

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will try those and let you know. it games well, but I don't think it likes folding at all while gaming, so I stopped the folding even on the gt240. we'll see how it will fold.
 
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game still locks, but not that bad like before, it locks a lot especially after finishing courses, but I think is a game issue. Folding is fine
 

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is the nvidia auto listed in hardware manager of sound if is disable it

and in game option of audio set stereo every time you start game
 

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game option is set to stereo. Disabled nVidia High Definition Audio in Device Manager. I was afraid of changing video driver because it would interfere with other activities while folding, and now I have my issue : playing video files with VLC now is very choppy, while on the old driver it was fine. And I don't really see why a 3 year old card should have the newest driver, you would think those issues would be solved over the first year.
 

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just do a clean format and re install windows & use new drivers from nvidia site .
fix all sata cables and memory properly .
 

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