Intel Duo Core PC's

[Atrocities]

Thanks, SLI is out. At least for the foreseeable future. Thanks guys.

[Xrati]

Whew! I'm glad that's settled. Now we can move onto bigger and better things! Like the 'Star Trek Mod' for SE6. Anyone hear from Aaron on the approximate release details? AND how do I get to be a playtester so I can get a head start on the mod?

[Edi]

Atrocities, it might be the drivers after all. Nvidia does have something of a track record of fixing things that ain't broken and then something less than hilarity resulting from that. A driver upgrade completely borked my Freespace 2 install because they changed some OpenGL handling and it corrupted half the graphics. That was while running a 7900GT card.

Worst case, you need to go back two or three revisions of drivers until you find whatever non-broken thing they tried to fix working correctly. I have had a Core2Duo machine for two years and aside from that one Nvidia related problem, I have not had any problems with it. I recently bought a new monitor and an ATI HD4870 graphics card and no problems at all with WinXP SP3.

An overheating card is another possibility. I assume you have also cleaned out the computer case adequately? Dust clogging stuff can do nasty things.

[Atrocities]

Thanks for the tip on the drivers. I will try that.