Vista not rendering 3D...

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I recently upgraded to Vista. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean
install. After installing current drivers for my video card and nforce4
board I installed World of Warcraft. Whe I tried to load it I got this:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n273/wrobes21/pic040208_2.jpg

Sorry for the poor quality. My phone is garbage and screen was hard to see.
Imagine that tiled across a 22" display (without the red spot of course).

So it doesn't work. Ok, I try to exit out of the game and my desktop now
looks like this:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n273/wrobes21/pic040208_3.jpg

I can do nothing so I reboot.

I went to the WoW forums to see if they could help and a tech said that
something is stopping my computer from rendering 3D. He said to reinstall
video and directx drivers. So I did and it didn't help. He then said that it
could be a hardware issue. I told him that before I upgraded everything ran
fine. I played games without any issues. I'm sure if I went back to XP right
now I'd would have no problems. Could it still be a hardware issue if 3D
works on one OS and not another?

Any help would be appreciated. I'll be more than willing to provide any
information needed. Thank you.
 
wrobes21 said:
I recently upgraded to Vista. I formatted my hard drive and did a clean
install. After installing current drivers for my video card and nforce4
board I installed World of Warcraft. Whe I tried to load it I got this:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n273/wrobes21/pic040208_2.jpg

Sorry for the poor quality. My phone is garbage and screen was hard to
see. Imagine that tiled across a 22" display (without the red spot of
course).

So it doesn't work. Ok, I try to exit out of the game and my desktop now
looks like this:

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n273/wrobes21/pic040208_3.jpg

I can do nothing so I reboot.

I went to the WoW forums to see if they could help and a tech said that
something is stopping my computer from rendering 3D. He said to reinstall
video and directx drivers. So I did and it didn't help. He then said that
it could be a hardware issue. I told him that before I upgraded everything
ran fine. I played games without any issues. I'm sure if I went back to XP
right now I'd would have no problems. Could it still be a hardware issue
if 3D works on one OS and not another?
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You left out some crucial information:

1. What video card make/model do you have?
2. How much system RAM?
3. What version of Vista did you install?

I doubt it is a hardware issue.

Malke
 
Malke said:
You left out some crucial information:

1. What video card make/model do you have?
2. How much system RAM?
3. What version of Vista did you install?

I doubt it is a hardware issue.

Malke
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It's an EVGA nVIDIA GeForce 7900GT. I'm running 2GB of RAM and using Vista
Ultimate. Sorry for the late response.
 
It's an EVGA nVIDIA GeForce 7900GT. I'm running 2GB of RAM and using Vista
Ultimate. Sorry for the late response.
Click to expand...

If you are still having the problem, then I'd uninstall the card (from
within Windows, not physically) and reinstall the drivers. Get them from
Nvidia. If that doesn't help, something else you have installed that came
along from XP is causing the issue. There is no way for me to guess what it
is. If you really want Vista, back up your data - don't forget your saved
games and WoW maps! - and do a clean install.

Malke
 
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