Massive Graphical Problem

Ariamaki · 03-25-2010 04:58 PM

I am playing City of Heroes / Villains again for the first time in a few months: Fresh installation of the game, on a brand-new computer.
Earlier today, while fighting Ice Mistral in the last (?) mission of the Patron Arc (Sirocco), I died, and then my graphics completely died- Every single section of screen was a jumble of horrible multi-color static and glitch images, with the game faintly visible underneath.
Nothing I have done so far (attempting to edit graphics settings through the "snow") has fixed it, nor has changing monitors or actual Windows graphical settings.

PLEASE, does anyone know how to fix this? It even affects the loading screen, and it makes it impossible to do anything.

je_saist · 03-25-2010 05:00 PM

who made your graphics card and what driver are you using?

Ariamaki · 03-25-2010 05:04 PM

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, latest drivers.

I was able to play successfully for 5+ hours before this glitch suddenly occurred, just to be clear.

Healix · 03-25-2010 06:04 PM

A common reason for this is overheating. Maybe you can check that first. Make sure all your fans are functioning. The latest driver is the 197.13 WHQL. Is that the one you have? Ingame, you might try messing with the geometry buffer setting. Hope that helps, and hang in there.

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Hemtroll · 03-25-2010 06:42 PM

How recently did you update your drivers? There was an issue recently with the 196.75 or so drivers that could mess up your fans and stop them from running, might want to check your version.

Back_Blast · 03-25-2010 08:25 PM

Yup. Check your version. Check your fans to make sure heat isn't it. You could also try running the game in Safe Mode. (Not the windows kind). When the updater comes up to the EULA, look for the Safe Mode checkbox. That forces the game to run at minimum graphics settings. If you can't run that, you've got a big issue. Does the system otherwise boot and run fine? Desktop look ok and all that?

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