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    8700M GT Screen tearing

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Adam24367, Dec 30, 2009.

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    Every few seconds i get screen tearing. Really odd as it hasnt happened before. It happened after i upgraded to windows 7. New drivers wont work.
     
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    http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

    Try the drivers from here and I notice I that only happens to be when my GPU is overheating or running hot. Did you OC your card?
     
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    nope. ive tried those.
     
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    $immond$, Dec 30, 2009
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    Gpu: 53c
    Cpu1: 43c
    Cpu2:42c
     
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    New drivers as in the official nVidia driver?: http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_winvista_win7_195.62_whql.html

    Those are you temps under load?! The GPU temp is really low.
     
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    those are ldle temps
     
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    Oh ok. Your temps while gaming (under load) are more helpful because high temps can cause your card to downclock or your driver to crash, causing all sorts of issues (tearing, stuttering, etc).
     
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    Nope. still doesnt work
    installed those drivers
     
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    Its weird because i had the RC of Win7 and didnt experience any issues
     
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    I found the issue. I searched toshiba support and found that it was a issue with powermizer. So i disabled it and i have yet to receive any flickers :)
     
    Adam24367, Dec 31, 2009
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    They are made by microsoft and you are right, they are not supposed to make your screen flicker. They are supposed to blow your computer up, except microsoft hasn't figured out how to do that yet
     
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    I am yet to encounter that happening while deploying windows on various machines. XP had the poorest generic drivers but Vistas and Win 7 were at least usable. I am not sure why your screen is flickering with win 7.
     
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    Mine screen isn't flickering. I only installed like 3 microsoft drivers for non-microsoft devices and 2 of them sucked. 1st was like 5 years ago for a AC'97 onboard sound card and after installing it from windows update windows lost sound. The 2nd one was for Ricoh host controller in vista - it killed all usb devices so i had to do a system restore, because uninstalling it or installing a dell driver again didn't do anything.
     
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