Graphics card problem?

I have to say that I am a happy owner of a DV9266EU. Only thing I miss is a C2D and a better GFX card then I'm fine. It's been running very well for the last couple of weeks, basically since I got it everything's been smooth as silk in Vista, games, you name it.

I recently installed my own copy of Vista Home Premium. And I never had any problems. Until now.

In most of my games I get a huge amount of graphical bugs. The menus in Battlefield Vietnam flicker, there are squares that blink everywhere, everything looks messed up. If you tab in and out of the game, these bugs go away.

Once you're on a map everything looks perfect, it's smooth, no bugs at all. But when you hit ESC to go back to the menu everything goes black, the music skips and you have to shut off the game.

Command and Conquer 3 suffers from the same problem. The menus look fine tho, and the game runs well. But all of a sudden in the middle of a game, all units disappear, objects start flickering and it's a mess. You can't do a thing. So I tab out and back in again, and everything is fine.

I tried to take a screenshot of Vietnam to show you, but you know what? The screenshot looks fine! No bugs! But they're there when I'm in the game.

What heck is going on? >< Right now I'm copying all my files to my external HD just in case I need to reinstall everything.

 

That sounds like a strange problem. Have you installed the latest NVIDIA Vista drivers for your card? I have heard that driver support for graphics is still not entirely there in Vista.

 

Hah. Nvidia? Their support for the GO cards is pitiful. There are NO drivers for the GO7 series on their site.

I'm using the ones on HPs page and they've worked fine for quite some time now, until this happened. My computers WEI score is. 4.7 5.5. 4.7 4.7 4.7 ,

 

Try getting the newer ones from http://laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?drivers

 

I just rolled back to my previous gfx drivers, the problem is gone now.