 | nVidia GeForce 8800/9800/250 chipset problem(1) | Category: Technical SupportJuly-11-2013 5:17 AM PDT (9 years ago)  |
| After the release and for some time after that there was a lot of posts about especially these video cards having black screens from time to time. These black screens could be lessened by tuning down foreground FPS, but the problem still remains (at least for me). I still haven't found any viable solution to this matter, only 100% working solution still seems to be to buy a new graphics card, which is, due to my economical state, still out of my reach. The problem is that while playing (in the middle of combat, browsing AH, looking through your stash, everywhere to be exact...) your screen goes black and the nVidia driver reboots. This makes your screen to be black for 2 to 5 seconds usually while the game still remains active and playing in background. This is a real nuisance even in SC but whilst in HC these flicks may cost you your life... I've tried to upgrade and downgrade my drivers, tried to find most working graphical settings, I've even tried to over-clock and under-clock my graphics card. Nothing has worked. I've tested the game while running GPU-Z in background and logged one incident that gave me a clue what seems to be the problem. I have GTS 250 512MB card and Diablo 3 seems to be using only 256MB's of the memory available, which causes the problem when trying to go over the 256MB. Diablo 3 seems to make a cap for that point but still manages to do memory overflow, even though there would be another 256MB's of memory still available. This seems to be the sort of problem that is out of common users reach to solve and fix. And I have tested the card with other games, picture editing, video editing, etc. and there has been no problems at all to use the whole 512MB potential of the card. Has there been any solution to this or are we just forced to suffer this problem until capable of buying new graphics card? PS. The reason why I mentioned 8800 and 9800 cards alongside of the 250 that I have is that they all have been suffering from the same problem due to chipset that they are using (G92, possibly affecting also G80 chipsets, not sure about that). But yes, these cards are practically almost identical, just a little improvements over time from one card to another. PPS. Specs for my PC: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (All updates applied) CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 3,00GHz GPU: nVidia GeForce GTS 250 512MB (Current driver 320.18) RAM: 2*2GB 800MHz Kingston (?) MB: MSI P35 Platinum | ||
 | nVidia GeForce 8800/9800/250 chipset problem(2) | July-12-2013 3:15 AM PDT (9 years ago) |
| Hello, I can't comment on any larger potential chipset issues, but there are some issues we're seeing with the latest iteration of Nvidia drivers. More details are here: http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/7646654824 Does it make any difference if you use an older driver? | ||
