The problem:
Replacing my 8800GTX with this Gigabyte GTX 560, I almost immediately noticed a problem loading tables on my 3/2 monitor setup. I found that after adding a new table and moving the DMD over to my third monitor or second monitor and resizing, all would be well. After closing out VP, and attempting to launch the table again later, the table almost appeared to be completely frozen but I could hear, a deh dehh dehh noise from the speakers. I found eventually that if I pressed f3 and gave it a few seconds, everything would reload and all would be well...until the next time I loaded the table and the same thing would happen again. I managed to press f11 while this was happening and it teetered between 0 and 1 frames per second slowly. I also noticed that CPU usage shot straight to 100% while this was going on.
*Note: not all tables did this to me. I was unable to replicate with JP's attack from mars. I could replicate this on tables like Jurassic Park, Dr. Dude (low and high res), Judge dredd, etc.
The troubleshooting:
I wont go into everything here because it encompassed days of testing, tweaking, different configurations, drivers, software and OS versions, etc, etc, etc.
My Solution:
If any of you have a 560, you know that there is only 1 official driver build (275.33) and 3 betas right now as the card is so new. While trying these different versions, I started limiting the extras that come with the nvidia driver (physx, nvidia update, hd audio driver, etc) By the end, I was simply installing the driver and nview. By this point I manually modified the 270.61 driver .inf to include and recognize my hardware as this driver doesnt natively support this card. I did a clean install of this driver, and this time, selected the driver only!
After some additional testing and trying to break VP...all seems to be working very well. I also tested FP and the backglass and score updates and works normally.
In the end, I'm not entirely sure if this problem was due to the driver, or nview. I will do some further testing on this when I get a chance.
My working hardware and software configuration:
-Asus p5E3 premium wifi mobo
-Intel e8400 dc @ 3.6ghz
-Antec 1000W PSU
-Gigabyte GTX 560 - using modified nvidia 270.61 driver
-MSI 6600GT - Using same 270.61 driver
-4gb of kingston 10666 - ddr3 ram
-TinyXP 32 (rev11)
I hope this proves useful to someone out there.
Edited by BitPirate, 09 June 2012 - 04:49 AM.