Bizarre graphic corruption

Hey, my card does that too sometimes. Except on mine, I get horizontal staticy lines and my FPS stays the same. It only happens after I've been playing a while, and persists after I quit CoX and try a different program.

It's triggered by leaving the window for another program, and I can almost cancel out the static by waving my cursor back and forth over my quickstart icons in the corner, so I've been writing it off as a rare memory corruption bug. I suppose it might be overheating or hardware failure, but marathon sessions of Bioshock don't cause it, so I have no idea.

I figure until the thing actually goes pop, I'm just going to tough it out until new drivers are released and see if that helps.

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Arc #41077 - The Men of State
Arc #48845 - Operation: Dirty Snowball

This goes without saying, but in both your cases you should check for physical damage to your video card just to be sure. As Miuramir said, blown caps dictate that you should replace the card as it may cause damage to the rest of your system if left alone long enough.

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