Geforce 6800 XT texture corruption

I'm using a Geforce 6800 XT with Windows XP. When playing certain older
games - most noticeably the Steam downloaded version of Half Life - I get
occasional corruption of textures in-game and in the menu, in the form of
multiple parallel horizontal white bars appearing across objects. The
problem seems to be more noticeable in 32-bit colour mode than 16-bit.

I recently installed Homeworld 2, and the same problem occurs with several
of the textures in this game.

Is there anything I can do to correct the problem? I've installed the latest
NVidia drivers, with no improvement.

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Mark Blunden.

On or about Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:19:03 -0000 did "Mark Blunden"
<markATmarkdb.plus.com DeleteThis @address.invalid> dribble thusly:

>I'm using a Geforce 6800 XT with Windows XP. When playing certain older
>games - most noticeably the Steam downloaded version of Half Life - I get
>occasional corruption of textures in-game and in the menu, in the form of
>multiple parallel horizontal white bars appearing across objects. The
>problem seems to be more noticeable in 32-bit colour mode than 16-bit.
>
>I recently installed Homeworld 2, and the same problem occurs with several
>of the textures in this game.
>
>Is there anything I can do to correct the problem? I've installed the latest
>NVidia drivers, with no improvement.

Try the latest drivers provided by the actual manufacturer of the
card.

If that does nothing, start saving for a new card. It could mean
failing memory on the card.

While saving, hope that new nVidia driver releases fix the problem, so
you can spend the money on something else.
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- Mike

Ignore the Python in me to send e-mail.