What's causing this?
Discussion
When playing a variety of games including both Rome and Medieval Total War, every so often this suddenly happens to my screen -
Imagine that dancing all around the screen.
This won't stop until I reset the computer, as you can see it's not possible to play games when this happens.
A similar thing used to happen evrey now and again at startup but that changed when I fiddled around with some grahpics settings.
Imagine that dancing all around the screen.
This won't stop until I reset the computer, as you can see it's not possible to play games when this happens.
A similar thing used to happen evrey now and again at startup but that changed when I fiddled around with some grahpics settings.
UncleDave said:
Looks like very bad artifacts to me...
If so could mean a knackered Graphics Card.. is it overclocked at all?
and it's just when game-playing but it's ok messing around in Windows and the like..?
Dave.
If so could mean a knackered Graphics Card.. is it overclocked at all?
and it's just when game-playing but it's ok messing around in Windows and the like..?
Dave.
Graphics card isn't overclocked AFAIK (found out my CPU was overclocked and I didn't know a while back
), it's a Radeon 9600 pro. As Windows boots up it sometimes does that, but not after a reset and only at startup.
Hmm..
First call would be to check and update Drivers for the card.. if you didn't overclock yourself it's likely fine.
Also see if there are any temperature monitors within your card drivers. Don't know about you but mine is in the menu you get to by Right clicking on Desktop, properties, click the settings tab, then 'Advanced'. Could be that it's overheating for some reason..
You could also turn off Anti Aliasing on Anisotropic Filtering which sometimes causes some strange things
Also, how old is the card now, any ideas?
But yeah, more than likely it's overheating!
Can sometimes be drivers and things though..
First call would be to check and update Drivers for the card.. if you didn't overclock yourself it's likely fine.
Also see if there are any temperature monitors within your card drivers. Don't know about you but mine is in the menu you get to by Right clicking on Desktop, properties, click the settings tab, then 'Advanced'. Could be that it's overheating for some reason..
You could also turn off Anti Aliasing on Anisotropic Filtering which sometimes causes some strange things
Also, how old is the card now, any ideas?
But yeah, more than likely it's overheating!
Can sometimes be drivers and things though.. Edited by UncleDave on Tuesday 8th August 21:53
Cheers for the replies guys, looks like I'll be dismantling the card to see how well the fan is set on.
I remember when the only thing we had to worry about cooling was the processor.
They were simpler times.
:sigh:
edit - after blowing out more dust than I thought could possibly fit in such a small space my graphics card's fan is now dust free (which inspired to take a hoover to the other fans in my computer too) and it's now running brilliantly*! Played a few Rome battles with no adverse effects at all
* apart from the loud buzzing noise it made for 5 minutes after first turning it back on.
I remember when the only thing we had to worry about cooling was the processor.
They were simpler times.
:sigh:
edit - after blowing out more dust than I thought could possibly fit in such a small space my graphics card's fan is now dust free (which inspired to take a hoover to the other fans in my computer too) and it's now running brilliantly*! Played a few Rome battles with no adverse effects at all
* apart from the loud buzzing noise it made for 5 minutes after first turning it back on.
Edited by FunkyNige on Wednesday 9th August 22:14
FunkyNige said:
Cheers for the replies guys, looks like I'll be dismantling the card to see how well the fan is set on.
I remember when the only thing we had to worry about cooling was the processor.
They were simpler times.
:sigh:
edit - after blowing out more dust than I thought could possibly fit in such a small space my graphics card's fan is now dust free (which inspired to take a hoover to the other fans in my computer too) and it's now running brilliantly*! Played a few Rome battles with no adverse effects at all
* apart from the loud buzzing noise it made for 5 minutes after first turning it back on.
I remember when the only thing we had to worry about cooling was the processor.
They were simpler times.
:sigh:
edit - after blowing out more dust than I thought could possibly fit in such a small space my graphics card's fan is now dust free (which inspired to take a hoover to the other fans in my computer too) and it's now running brilliantly*! Played a few Rome battles with no adverse effects at all
* apart from the loud buzzing noise it made for 5 minutes after first turning it back on.
Edited by FunkyNige on Wednesday 9th August 22:14
Switch to water cooling, that way you won't get your PC full of dust
It did it again! Maybe I'll just leave the side off to play games, that seemed to work. I reallly don't want to spend any money on this problem as I'm upgrading in October (when the latest Total War game comes out) so any money I spend now will be completely wasted! Looks like cooling the graphicss card will be a consideration when making the case though.
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