Cliffs of Dover - A N00b's Perspective

[Heavy_Cavalry_Sgt]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Are you sure you have 4gb on that 9800? I can't remember ever seeing that card. But as long as you have a 1Gb card, you should be able to play with some lowered settings. I had that card prior to purchasing a 2gb GTX 560Ti, which has doubled my FPS at higher settings.

I suspect with those glitches, either your vid card can't handle the settings, you need to update drivers, or you're cooking your video card. I had a card that did stuff similar to what you're showing in a different game. After a bit of testing, I found it was running at over 95C under the loads I was putting it through. Needless to say, it didn't last very long that way (a few days). I was getting half of a screen being displayed, rest black, wierd artifacts, then stuff that looked like old ascii code being transposed on screen (looked kinda matrix meets stargate). I was simply pushing the card too hard.

Pretty sure -- I double checked with dxdiag:

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Display Devices
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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 9800 GT
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Display Memory: 4069 MB

I think I might need to revert to the older drivers -- the frame rate was quite good initially.