Hey everyone,
I have a worrying problem which im hoping you can shed some light on. Over the past few days i have noticed graphical glitches when playing games, world of warcraft especially. Basically at any random point in time the graphics on screen will just scramble, or i can see large black lines blink on the screen, distorted colours and shapes. Last night I actually had a really serious occurence of this which actually locked my machine up and gave a horrific noise through my speakers, needless to say it was followed by a reboot. Upon the reboot i noticed strange sprites and colours appearing on my windows welcome screen and the main desktop also, so its not just when im playing graphic intensive games.
My system specs are what is shown in my signature area, the main worry i have is could it possible be my graphics card (BFG 6800 GT) which i have only had a few months. I am running the 66.93 (latest drivers) from the nvidia site.
I have run artifact tester 5.0 which showed no artifacts found, but i think it is an old program, maybe not meant for DX9.0. Honestly though im really not sure how to properly test my video card for faults, can someone post a link to a good tester?
I would really appreciate some descriptive answers here, i really need to sort this out.
I havent overclocked my graphics card, basically i have done nothing i can recall to possibly cause this.
Thanks heaps.
I have a worrying problem which im hoping you can shed some light on. Over the past few days i have noticed graphical glitches when playing games, world of warcraft especially. Basically at any random point in time the graphics on screen will just scramble, or i can see large black lines blink on the screen, distorted colours and shapes. Last night I actually had a really serious occurence of this which actually locked my machine up and gave a horrific noise through my speakers, needless to say it was followed by a reboot. Upon the reboot i noticed strange sprites and colours appearing on my windows welcome screen and the main desktop also, so its not just when im playing graphic intensive games.
My system specs are what is shown in my signature area, the main worry i have is could it possible be my graphics card (BFG 6800 GT) which i have only had a few months. I am running the 66.93 (latest drivers) from the nvidia site.
I have run artifact tester 5.0 which showed no artifacts found, but i think it is an old program, maybe not meant for DX9.0. Honestly though im really not sure how to properly test my video card for faults, can someone post a link to a good tester?
I would really appreciate some descriptive answers here, i really need to sort this out.
I havent overclocked my graphics card, basically i have done nothing i can recall to possibly cause this.
Thanks heaps.