mannn, I have a flickering mess on my hands..

maybe I screwed sumthin up..

All I did was follow instructions in the box...
It said remove old card from pci slot, replace with new card, install drivers..

I didn't uninstall the drivers from my 8800gt first tho, is that a problem u think..?

You should of uninstalled the old drivers first and then plugged in the card and installed new drivers. With new drivers switching is not a prob but with older ones it could of messed something up.

That being said if you are getting lines/color flashes and freezes OUTSIDE of the game, its a Vram problem and you will to RMA it.

Salute

Take a look at this program:

http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

It will remove any drivers you have on your system, then you can re-install new drivers, make sure you use the 270 series from Nvidia.

or you can just go to programs -> uninstall program -> Nvidia driver...

i have a gtx 560 ti twin froz II and i didn t have any problems with this card.i play with a 24 inches screen in a 1920x1200 resolution (with all option in maximum i have only a few stuters and a bit more over london).if i were you i woud try to desinstall the game.i don t think it s come from a driver because there are two and i tried both without any problems.i hope it will help you for your further investigations.;):)

First all, we dont know what Os are you running :confused:

But here is the process to what to do :

- uninstall your nVidia graphics driver, it will command you Restart probably but dont do that, click Restart later and shut down your PC normally.

- Open your PC unplug your card and plug in again, sometimes is not correctly plugged.

- Start your PC and install the last graphics driver package, download the correct driver for your Os and card from here :

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

- Restart your PC even if the driver installation dont command you to do that.

Time to start the game :

- Disable Steam Cloud in steam configuration.

- Go to your ... \Documents\1C SoftClub\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover and remove the conf.ini to your desktop, to backup it, then go to cache/shaders and delete all files.

- Start the game, it will create a new conf.ini in the process, and new shader files in the first loaded map.

If the problem persist open the new conf.ini to be sure that is using DX10.

Ok. I think I see a problem.
Each time I start up machine the "new hardware found" window opens asking to load software for "Other pci Bridge Device"

Then in says unable to "Install This Hardware"

I have screwed up something. :confused:



Btw. I am on Windows XP

You cant use DX10 in XP, so the card is runing in DX9 only.

Dont panic, just do what I wrote step by step.

Followed directions

Uninstalled nvidia drivers via add/remove programs

It asked for restart, I hit cancel, then shut down.

Physically removed card from slot and replaced.

Started machine.

Hardware wizard pops up. Wants to install software for: PCI device

???

Should I just run the driver installer for the 270's I downloaded...?

Ignore the wizard, just close the window.

You should install the downloaded driver now.