currently i'm playing games such as everquest2 , world of warcraft, city of heroes and star wars galaxies. for some of these games for some reason when i logg on the ingame graphics appear very torn and very distorted like some sort of abstact PAINTING. at first i thought maybe my cd's were damage SOMEHOW which would tell me why it is happening ....thinking that the games were currupted. but i just bought star wars battlefront and installed it to find that it's having the same problems as well. my SYSTEM is a amd antholon chip 2200 cpu 1.8 wiht 1.5 gigs of ram i have windows 2K and a nvidia 6600 series video card. i've tried to reinstall the video driver numerious times. i've even done a reinstall of my motherboards DRIVERS including the vido cards drivers and reinstalling the games and it has not helped the problemWhat drivers are you using?

Do the D3D and DirectDraw tests pass when you run DXDIAG?You could try using some archived drivers from the nvidia site, there is a link on the left hand side.
I see you say it happens for 'some' of the games.
Have you checked the game sites for fixes & patches?to answer your question i'm using the latest forceware for this card which is 81. something ..hehe anyways all the active x and direct x things in the diagnostic say there working fine . and when i say that some of the games don't have that problem they are all online games mostly. but i'm going to try some archived drivers to see if that helpsIf the problem only happens when you are playing online then I suggest the answer will not be drivers.
Being on dialup I don't play online so I can't help you.
I think there are a few resident online gamers here.
You could try checking at the game site forums for help.Did you try to simply configure the games before playing?Have you seen your spelling lately?