7950GT artifacts, only in certain games?

[PurSpyk!!]

Hi

I have the 7950GT agp graphics card, which now has a faulty port (still wondering if it is worthwhile swopping)

My hardware:

Pentium 4 3.4Ghz
Kingston HyperX 2GB ram
Asus p4c800-e deluxe
Windows Xp pro Sp2, all updates installed
Nvidia 163.75 drivers installed (driver version makes no difference)

I run Half-Life 2, Ep1, Ep2, TF2 etc all on max settings and the resolution set to 1152x864, all games run without any issues. No artifacts, flashing textures etc.

If I play Age of Empires III or any of the expansion packs, also at 1152x864 and all settigns on high, I get flashing textures and if I move off the screen to a black area you can see flashing white dots.

I was not expecting the Age of Empires III games to stress the card more the HL2.

The card does nto get any hotter than 58C when running so it does not seem like a heat issue

Any ideas? It is most fustrating

[Miker]

It is a driver issue. These are the only drivers I got to work 100% in all games. I was having the water in FarCry look wierd, some floors in CSS (de_dust2 tunnel, so on).

Old drivers off XFX Site.
http://rapidshare.com/files/58735221/162.zip.html

[xfxsupport]

I would also suggest you try a few different games or benchmarks as well.