Graphics card

Goitster

I have just had a new graphics card installed in my comp. It is a Nvidia 7600. However it keeps crashing when playing games. I have d/l the latest drivers and latest active x, reinstalled the games.It alsi takes ages for the games to load. Anyone got any suggestions what might be wrong?

It has a Pentium 4 2.53 gh chip

Reluctant_spender

Are any patches available for the games themselves?

Tyrannical

It could be a number of things, as Reluctant_spender said above it maybe the game itself is causing the crashes. Did you remove the old cards drivers before installing the new one? or it could be that the power supply in your system simply can't supply the more powerful card with enough juice, in which case you would have to upgrade that also, out of interest do you know the wattage of your current power supply?

Goitster

The patches have already been downloaded and installed on the games.

I dont know the wattage,how would I find that out?

Blacksheep1979

open up computer and have a look whats written on it or it might say on the back where the power cable goes in.

Jnelhams

You should also check on the Manufacturers website for the Motherboard BIOS updates as some M/B are just not happy with Nvidia cards, I had this problem with my Gigabyte board, and swapped the Graphics for an ATI and never been a problem since.

Did you do a Windows update too? It might also help to rollback the update if you did one already.

Goitster

Problem solved. I uninstalled the drivers I d/l from the Nvidia site and installed the drivers from the disc supplied with the card. I assume these won't be as current, but they do work. Thanks for everyone's input. Should I have known this and does it make any difference??