graphics drivers

I recently upgraded my laptop from Vista Ultimate 64 bit to Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and I am noticing frame pauses when I am playing video games on my system. One game I am noticing it a lot on is World of Warcraft. When I was playing it on Vista 64 bit everything ran smoothly, now when...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate build 7600 installed. Every once in a while my screen flickers. My monitor actually loses the signal just for a brief second. and then everything gets back to normal. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

I've noticed on my friend's laptop that this option turns off most aero effects and saves battery (he has an Intel integrated gpu). On my netbook however (Gateway LT3103 - gfx: ati x1270) it doesn't work, all of the effects are there. Though it does set every other setting correctly this one is...

After 4 years, my fully up-to-date XP install got completely messed up so given Win7 was so close, decided to try the RC rather than go back thru multiple XP updates/patches. Yes, I know it is an older laptop but it does have 1.25Gb RAM. I ran into the Intel GMA855 graphics lack of support but...

Hello there, First of all i would like to congratulate the microsoft team on an excellent OS. I have only encountered one problem at the minute...its a very irritating problem though. Im using windows 7 64bit, and when i first installed it i could use aero peek an see all my webpages etc...

Hi there i´m having a problem with aero on my pc since i have updated my hraphic card drivers to the most recent( the driver is for win 7 32bit) the graphic is a asus eah3650 256mb DDR3, the aero always works great but know it won´t work i have tried the troubleshoter and it says that the...

Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong...

Hello, When playing world of warcraft on windows 7 there was a freezing issue - the game freezes everytime after few minutes of playing. Its some kind of random freeze sometimes happend if first minute of game sometime takes longer (30mins). I tested this on 7231 build with latest nvidia...

First- Thank you in advance for any input you have, and sorry if this seems like a re-post, but I can't seem to find anyone who is having quite the same problem or a solution that seems to work. Basically it is denying me access to brand new files. EX I shot some texture photos today, applied...

Last night I installed the Win 7 RC and unlike the beta which ran fine, I am having some serious driver issues. I have an EVGA GeForce 8800GT connected to an HDTV which is my only display. At install the display was OK but the screen was not resizable and the edges including the start menu were...

I have had this issue with a few versions of Windows 7, but it has never gone away. The current version is 7100. I have updated my drivers. Graphics card is ATI X1250 Anyways, the issue is every now and then, the screen will just go nuts, and then the computer will shut down. Before, when I...

So i have been using Windows 7 RC. The driver messed up so i reformated my partition and reinstalled. First time it was all ok. But then I was on it and the graphics messed up. So around windows at the edge and near the window control buttons it was all bits and all that. So i re-formatted...

before windows 7 i had vista and the game crossfire and combat arms work perfectly and now i upgraded to windows 7, crossfire won't work and combat arms works.. combat arms graphics are a lot more better so it uses more memory than crossfire.. what should i do? update video driver or...

I'm using build 7100. My video card is not compatible with WDDM. (SiS 730) But some features like Aero Shake and Aero Peek, probably does not need a WDDM compatible video card. Some registry hacks like "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM\UseMachineCheck" are not working in Windows 7 (Build...

No Game will work on my Win 7. I tried: 1. Assasins Creed 2. Fear 3. Command and Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars in all 3 Games Windows crashes Completly after about 20 minutes. Screens went black and tthe sounds going mad. My System: Win 7 RC 64 bit 8600 GT GeForce 1024 MB 2 Gig memory...

I changed from XP to Seven about a week ago. I got customed in XP with the ease of use of NVidia nView, as I was easily able to change the refresh rate for my secondary display from system tray icon menu. I have 24" LCD and 47" 1080p60/24Hz HDTV as a secondary display. I need to be able to...

Hi, I installed 7RC from MS, all went fine, I've not done anything unusual in the setup, all updates are installed, graphics ok etc. I created the initial account admin account, then from that a second admin. Changed to that admin account, set it up etc, and created 3 other Standard accounts...

this isn't too critical a problem as a re-boot easily fixes it but... after a few hours of being on, if i leave my computer and it goes into screen saver/auto-sleep mode, upon waking it again, the start bar and task bar disappears. however, the start button is still there. i can click on it...

My problem is that whenever i start a game, the screen goes black, and all audio disappers. This happends to Lord of the Rings online, Age of conan, settlers 2 10th anniversary, and even OpenTTD i've tried reinstalled all those games, and my gfx drivers, but nothing seems to work. Oh and i have...

Hi! I am running on my notebook Windows 7 RC 64bit ( build7100). I had a problem, which actually occured in all Win7 builds I tried ( build 7048, 7057, 7068, 7077). In Power Options I activated the option "Turn off Display" for 5 minutes. Well the display turns off indeed, but after 2-3...