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Twigs · 2008-11-06 04:34:12

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Topic: Think I have an impending graphics card failure :/

For the past couple days I've been getting occasional glitches in game, the odd pixel showing as red or green, black lines extending from various statics and gun sights, colours on troopers (not a real problem as it was in Rhenvar so they was easy to spot at a distance ) and last night the screen was just not dran properly at all, wil a sort of blocky digital effect all over the screen which gave a sort of 'fog' effect to everything.

It's a 7900GT I've had for a while now so I'm due for an upgrade anyway, I just can't afford it right now. When i do upgrade (hopefully in December) I'll be switching to a 4850 or possibly a 4870 if I can get the budget to stretch a little further.

In the mean time, I'm going to try cleaning out the card of any dust as well as wiping the contacts and hope that helps. So...if I suddenly disappear I may well have lost my graphics!

Bite my shiny metal Tie Fighter!

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FSDev| TALON · 2008-11-06 05:56:47

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Re: Think I have an impending graphics card failure :/

Good luck with that fella.

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http://stats.fsmod.com/fssig.php?player=Talon-UK

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Twigs · 2008-11-06 14:03:18

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Re: Think I have an impending graphics card failure :/

hmm, very bizarre. Got home from work tonight and removed graphics card, not surprisingly it had very little dust on it but gave it a good clean round anyway. Put it back in and booted up and went straight in to FS. Large blocky artifacts all over screen. Just to check it wasn't a thermal problem I installed riva tuner and looked at the temps, 49 degrees, and adjusted the fan speed to run at 80%, loaded up FS to find the same thing. So....

I then decided to see if a driver roll back would help, uninstalled the newest nvid drivers and installed drivers from a few months ago. Loaded up FS....perfect. No artifacts, no digi effects.....

Think I'll leave it as is until I get that new card!

Bite my shiny metal Tie Fighter!

Safe-Keeper · 2008-11-06 14:36:30

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Re: Think I have an impending graphics card failure :/

My PC died on me some time ago. Wouldn't start, just gave off a weird clicking sound. I turned it in for repairs, and the note I got back with it said "Replaced new system files with old ones".

Sigh. Why on Earth does the thing upgrade if the new bling causes it to die?

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