I'm at My wits end so I'll post this here because I believe it has to do with CoH and nothing else. I bought this card a couple of months ago and I have had ongoing problems running in CoH. I specify CoH because I have run two benchmark programs (both got very good scores and compared well to other computers on Mark11 tests) and I played WoW for hours yesterday without a single problem.
When I initially start the game the program runs fine then over time (an hour or two) the picture starts going to hell in a handbag. Specifically, words blur to be unreadable (but not all words), letters disappear from words, icons for powers and enhancements might disappear, whole surfaces like boxes or doors turn black, and floors or the ground disappear. A couple of times I have been able to see through walls to mobs two rooms over (hmmmm, that might be useful, lol), And lastly, auras turn into vivid square patterns that alternate around the character. Not all of these things happen at once generally, but when moving from zone to zone, the aura problem did not change nor do the other problems. This occurs on all or any of my five toons.
The problem does not appear to be overheating as it does not do it on other things like WoW or Heaven's benchmarks which I ran for over two hours. I also have two fans on a well vented computer pull the heat out and I blew a fan in through the vents just to cool things more and test for that. It may occur in any environment and just comes on and gets worse if I do not reboot.
I have put up the numbers from the CoH helper so you can see the sytem.
I'm all up for suggestions so I'm willing to try anything you throw up and if you have questions I'll try and get you answers. Drivers are up to date as are all windows components. I have blocked drivers on two audio devices I didn't need (webcam and AMD which I'm not plugged into) at the suggestion of Microsoft. The card was professionaly installed at a computer shop.
Thank you for reading.
---System information gathered by
CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at July 11, 2012 13:23 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
System Manufacturer: INTEL_
System Model: DH61BE__
BIOS: IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1365 PXE 2.1 B
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 6413MB out of 8169MB available
Page File: 14324MB (2012MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD5000AAKS-75A7B0 ATA Device) 406225MB out of 476875MB (85%) free
D Drive: (HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD GBC-H20N ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video Memory: 740 MB
Driver Version: 8.850.0.0
Driver Date: 4/20/2011 2:07:48 AM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6602
Driver Date: 3/27/2012 5:03:36 PM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: DH61BE
Motherboard Version: AAG14062-206
BIOS Manufacturer: Intel Corp.
BIOS Name: IBA GE Slot 00C8 v1365 PXE 2.1 B
BIOS Version: INTEL - 1072009
BIOS Release: 20110218000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1600x900
3D Resolution: 1600x900 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Stencil shadows
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: High performance
Occlusion Strength: Slight
Blur: Fast
Ambient Resolution: High performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.326
Music Sound Volume: 0.047
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.750
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\NCsoft\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found
