Card Burnout?


Coolio

 

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I just loaded into test server earlier today. Took about 10 steps and boom, my graphics went all screwy. Had to restart my comp but.... the bugged graphics persisted! It even had the same glitched image of game on the screen when it tried to load windows. I couldn't get back into Windows at all. Loaded in Safe Mode.

Updated Drivers
Checked my motherboard bios
Tried disabling and re-enabling vid card
Turned down the graphics accelerator
Re-installed Windows
Formatted computer and re-installed
I even tried cleaning the inside of the computer thinking maybe I had a clogged fan

Nothing works. I can't enable my video card or I get that same, my guy standing there in the game, glitched image any time I do. I don't know if my card decided at that moment to die or if it's the game.

Was running an Nvidia 8800 612 meg card with updated drivers


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Will check my power supply tomorrow. Could be it's going out and I'm not getting enough power to run the card anymore. Will post results.


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Can you run test in the using CoH test updater's gfx safemode?

Thats NOT windows safemode, but the safemode checkbox in the updater on the second page, after you have 'read the EULA and' clicked Next.

It may be you have the lag glitches from Ultramode on test, the graphics safemode should remove any ultramode settings and make it playable again, then you can reset your resolution (and shadow shaders if required) then restart test and adjust the rest of the settings to your likeing.


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I just had an 8800gts burnout during a windows driver update, might be an issue where updated drivers are forcing a command that certain cards cant do!

2 days and £300 later I'm back with a new ATI card as putting my Nvidia into another machine yielded the same artifacting as my machine, so I knew it was the card.



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