UI graphic corruption - fixed in latest Nvidia drivers (?)


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Just caught this happening right now. All I did was simply open a window, and this came up:

Windows%207%20RC%20visual%20corruption.png

For reference, this on a 32-bit RC build with the Forceware set 185.85. Yes the GPU has a slight overclock, but this has never happened before on Vista or older builds of Windows 7.

edit: See my third post.

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Just caught this happening right now. All I did was simply open a window, and this came up:

Windows%207%20RC%20visual%20corruption.png

For reference, this on a 32-bit RC build with the Forceware set 185.85. Yes the GPU has a slight overclock, but this has never happened before on Vista or older builds of Windows 7.

It's the 185.85 drivers. Many people are having this issue.

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It's the 185.85 drivers. Many people are having this issue.

Nvidia - Vista issue all over again. Not really surprised.

Do this:

net stop uxsms

net start uxsms

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Thanks for your confirmation guys. Thought my GPU's overheating again. :pinch:

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Haven't seen this issue with my 8600 GTS, yet. In fact, I've yet to see many of the issues people are experiencing with the RC.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Just a heads up that this bug seems to be fixed in 186.06. I've tried turning on and off Cleartype and using Show Desktop a couple of times, but no glitching so far. I'll have to keep watch for the next couple of days to determine if this is a fluke or not.

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Yeah, the problem returns after sleeping and resuming the system. Restarting the DWM fixes this though.

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well- I am running different HW and a different build of Win7 - (x64 latest) - just for the record I havent seen this (280GTX OC w/ nVidia 185.85)

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So we'll put this down to a hardware problem then?

And isn't your sig a bit too large? :p

I don't know. This is all happening on a 8800 GT. Many different things can trigger this, including exiting a 3D game. This never happens on my laptop, but it uses the Windows Update drivers for the Geforce 7400 Go, which I believe are a bit older. Also the 7400 Go uses WDDM 1.0 drivers.

No it isn't, one of them is just at 550x170. :)

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I have never run into any such problem either with release 185.85 drivers (8400M GS), but it does sometimes cause a little flicker and colored bands during the fade-in of the welcome screen. Not even that problem occurs in Win 7 version of the same drivers.

In Kubuntu 9.0x x64, however, the 185.18.14 drivers make the card vomit out all the colors it knows in random bands and after about a minute of the dazzline neon lights show, it reboots. I tried reinstalling several times, ended the same everytime.

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