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Author Topic: Need Some Computer Help  (Read 8261 times)
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MasonDon Offline
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« on: June 28, 2008, 09:09:28 am »

Well, lately my computer has entered the stage of "I WANT TO FUCKING BURN IT AND FEED IT TO A BEAR!"

WARNING: BLOCK OF TEXT WILL CRIT YOU FOR 9999 EYE BURNING DAMAGE

I keep getting wierd graphical glitches on every game I play. Every other program is fine.

Little background info -

A year ago I added a new gfx card in, an nvidia 7600 gt. I needed a good, cheap card, And i heard it wasnt bad. I also put 2 gb of Ram in. thing worked great. Could play everything with little to no lag, and I was thoroughly happy. Then came december. A trojan or some shit must've gotten into my computer. My hard drive crashed and fried, and I went out to get another one installed. Thats when the trouble started. It was trivial at first. Little white transparent lines stretching across loading screen or terrain. Easy to notice, but slightly annoying.

Then there came about a month later, as an aid to the white lines, color distortion. Random patches of terrain and sometimes even characters would change into shades of blue, purple and black polka dots  Angry. Annoying, but far from game breaking.

Things started going downhill from there. Disappearing character models, random terrain glitches, disappearing terrain. Still not game breaking, but very much fucking annoying.

Then, i decided to update my drivers and defrag the harddrive in hopes of fixing the problem. Want to know what it did? IT MADE IT FUCKING WORSE.

Random crashes due to graphics glitches, completely disappearing terrain and characters, random large rectangles shooting at me from the sky if I turn a certain way, large blocks of colored matter blocking my vision, and generally game breaking graphical glitches. THen games that worked a month ago started crashing on startup or getting critical errors or something pertaining to the gfx

To sum it up - Game will not start, some have major graphical glitches IE discolored blotches, missing characters, missing terrain and white lines.

I now stand at a crossroads. Get a complete overhaul of the computer (which i dont have the money for) or see if you people can either help me fix it, or help me find a cheaper solution.


Games with white lines -
everything

Games with blotches/discoloration -
everything except CoH and SoaSE

Games with missing character/terrain -
Everything except CoH and SoaSE

Ill put the pictures in attachment form to basically show you whast going on. I realize they are all from one game, but that game has nearly all of the problems.

Game i own (If it helps) -
Civ 4 & BTS
COH and OF
SoaSE
Port Royale 2 (one of my favorites that wont work now  Sad)
Combat Arms
AoC
Soldat
Stronghold 2 and Crusader
Navyfield
Guild Wars
Tabula Rasa

And thats all I have installed.

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Warbirds2 Offline
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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2008, 09:14:12 am »

Get a new graphics card.
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MasonDon Offline
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« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2008, 09:16:55 am »

Short answer, but ok. Any idea why it started doing this though so I avoid future mistakes?
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Warbirds2 Offline
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« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2008, 09:18:04 am »

I'm guessing hardware incompatibility.
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Unkn0wn Offline
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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2008, 09:26:04 am »

Try some drivers.
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MasonDon Offline
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2008, 09:28:12 am »

Try some drivers.
i decided to update my drivers
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Unkn0wn Offline
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2008, 09:30:44 am »

Other drivers =).

Vista or XP?
You should just get a new one aye.

Also, post your full specs.
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MasonDon Offline
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« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2008, 09:54:57 am »

AMD Athlon XP 2800+
2.08 GHz
2 GB of Ram
Nvidia 7600 GT
160 GB hard drive

if there's anything else you need, ill try and get it. I fail at remembering specs.
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MasonDon Offline
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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2008, 10:01:49 am »

Also, ive been looking at an 8800. How good are they? I might just get one.
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RikiRude5 Offline
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2008, 01:46:09 pm »

i got an 8800 they are boss.

also what's this combat arms game you play? it looks cool.
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2008, 01:52:19 pm »

Wall hax much?
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2008, 02:26:35 pm »

Also, ive been looking at an 8800. How good are they? I might just get one.


Get a 4850, they´ve just arrived, only 200 bucks and it´s almost like a 3870x2 or 8800ultra, for the ones who might don´t believe it :

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-ati-radeon-hd-4850-review-force-3d--powercolor/1
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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2008, 02:30:34 pm »

Don't buy 8800 who the hell gave u that tip now Radeon 4750 pwns everything from nvidia if u need cheap card it's better then 9800 GTX and it;s close to 2 times cheapers.

No offense but u are from USA?
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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2008, 02:36:10 pm »

Just get a 9600GT if you want a really cheap and well performing card =).
I seriously can't complain!

But yeah, the 4750 will outperform it now.
Nvidia will probably start dropping prices to compete though.
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« Reply #14 on: June 30, 2008, 09:50:19 am »

Similar thing has happened to me. I personally think the memory in the graphics card got corrupted. Simple fix would be to get a new card, I am looking at the 9600 for price/performance.
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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2008, 01:28:24 pm »

As to why it happened?  Hardware does go bad...especially when you power it on and off.  You know wear and tear.  Also if that thing is clogged with dust you could have over heated it.
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« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2008, 11:09:02 pm »

Don't buy 8800 who the hell gave u that tip now Radeon 4750 pwns everything from nvidia if u need cheap card it's better then 9800 GTX and it;s close to 2 times cheapers.

No offense but u are from USA?

On whom you ask?
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MasonDon Offline
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« Reply #17 on: July 13, 2008, 08:49:44 am »

Necro bump, but...

Before I go and shell out money for a new gfx card, can any recommend me some drivers?  Grin
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« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2008, 10:46:33 am »

Just go to the website that makes your card and update the drivers there, try BETA drivers if they have them.
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« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2008, 11:35:00 am »

Have you tried running Memtest 86? http://www.memtest86.com/

See if your computer can pass at last 3 passes of Tests 2, 3, and 5.

If not, you may have memory issues.

Try to run prime95 on torture test for 12 hours to diagnose CPU/RAM.

It is probably a bad vid card, but before you drop $200 you want to try to rule out other components.

Do you overclock at all?

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