6800GT Checkerboard crash

[bluegnu]

Has anyone who was experiencing problems running the game with Geforce 6800GT had any luck getting the game to run ok? I have tried running the game with older drivers but exactly the same thing would happen - checkerboard artifiacts would briefly appear and then the monitor would shut down and I would need to hard reboot the system...

Answers anyone?

 

[markymarknz]

I had a similar issue where I had my brand new 6600GT 128mb and new psu but would have artifact streaks coming from the top left corner down on a diagonal.
I tried about 4 different drivers and would have the same issue.

However there was light at the end of the tunnel!!!
I was up until now running 2 monitors off my one card but I tried installing the latest one 81.85 but with only one monitor. Then I lost the streaky artifacts and the game didn't crash.
It took a little while before it worked fine but came right.

 

[TX-Zen]

I'm running a 6800GT with 71.84 drivers and haven't had a crash yet. I do have other problems like wonder movies checkerboarding and running extremely slow with choppy sound, unit animations not completing (especially with multiple units in a city attack) and a general slow down of the game if it runs for a few hours....but NO game crashes.

Not sure if this helps, but you might try the 71.84 package and see what that gets you.

Also running on an AMD 3800 and the Nvidia card bios is 5.40.02.15.51