City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Graphics Problem

Cade Lawson

By Cade Lawson,
Posted on: 2010-05-21 09:27 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

Need help figuring out what is going on with the game. About 30min to an hour of play the graphics start to mess up mostly inside missions but sometime out side too. Here is a pic I took when it happen. If I log all the way out of the game and then log back in the game is fine for a while then is screws up again.

http://s968.photobucket.com/albums/a...1-11-14-31.jpg

http://s968.photobucket.com/albums/a...8-12-43-22.jpg

http://s968.photobucket.com/albums/a...0-05-04-59.jpg

Onibi---Fire/Fire/fire Blaster

I'm ready to burn it all.

Lets Fight!

ParadigmX City help the city.

 

Posted

A CoH Helper report showing your setup, might be helpful.

But my guess is your graphic card starts to overheat.

 

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---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---

DxDiag gathered at May 21, 2010 12:38 (-05:00)
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.100216-1514)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 01/02/09 08:41:14 Ver: 03.04
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.7GHz
Memory: 3328MB
.Net Memory Report: 2693MB out of 3327MB available
Page File: 4029MB (671MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD800JB-00ETA0) 17667MB out of 76308MB (23%) free
E Drive: (ST3500320AS) 190097MB out of 476937MB (39%) free
D Drive: (COMPAQ DVD-ROM GD-8000) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DirectX Diag version: 5.03.2600.5512 (32-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor
Monitor's Max Resolution: 1600,1200
Video Device Name: ATI Radeon HD 4670
Manufacturer / Chip: ATI Technologies Inc. / ATI Radeon Graphics Processor (0x9490)
Video Memory: 1024.0 MB
Driver Version: 6.14.0010.6936
Driver Date: 3/16/2009 1:26:14 PM
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: HD Audio rear output
Driver File: viahduaa.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1540
Driver Date: 9/29/2008 3:06:08 AM


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: M3A76-CM
Motherboard Version: Rev X.0x
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 01/02/09 08:41:14 Ver: 03.04
BIOS Version: 010209 - 20090102
BIOS Release: 20090102000000.000000+000


Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1024x768
3D Resolution: 1024x768 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes


Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No


Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: Medium?


World Texture Level: Medium
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.800
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: Yes
Shadow Mode: Disabled
Shadow Map Shader: Unknown (0)
Environmental Reflections: Disabled
Advanced Occlusion Settings: Yes
Ambient Occlusion: Off
Occlusion Strength: Off
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance


Gamma Correction: 0.850
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: 0.099
Music Sound Volume: 0.200

Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.250
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: 935003 bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1800.201003300904.25T5r
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 32 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Outdoor_Missions has 9 files
.\texture_library\V_MAPS\Static has 16 files

Onibi---Fire/Fire/fire Blaster

I'm ready to burn it all.

Lets Fight!

ParadigmX City help the city.

 

Posted

You should update your graphic driver.

Have you checked that all your fans are clean and working properly?

 

Posted

Graphics driver is way out of date. Update to 10.4 please.

 

Posted

I haven't seen images exactly like that before but number 2 looks like it's showing at least hints of infinite planes. From the fact that it happens after playing a while I would have to just about guarantee that it is heat related.

Take the following steps.

1.) With the power off open up your computer and clean out any dust. Only use canned air or anything else that can direct a mild jet of air. When blowing the dust off of any fans make sure you hold the fan in place with the eraser end of a pencil or something similar. If the fan spins it can damage the board. A spinning electrical motor becomes a generator and can feed power to the wrong parts.

2.) Leaving the computer open power it up and visually inspect the fans to see if they are all spinning. The ones that matter the most are any fan on the video card itself, the fan on the processor, and the fan on the power supply. That's because these are the 3 parts which will start having degraded performance as they overheat. The case fans are important too because they expel the hot air from the case but they don't have nearly as much effect as the individual part fans. If any of the part fans is not spinning then do not use the computer again until you have replaced that fan. Most fans are incredibly easy to replace often only requiring removing a couple clips or screws.

3) If the case is clean of dust and the fans are running fine then you need to run some kind of heat monitoring program as you play. You will probably have to play in windowed mode because even if the monitoring program is set to always on top, it might not show up or could cause intense flickering as the screen switches from the monitor to the game itself. You can easily google the safe running temperatures for your card and see if they are being exceeded. If they are then it's pretty much a guarantee that the card is going bad. Using speedfan (which can also monitor temperature) to increase the video card fan to 100% will give your card a longer life before complete failure but if it is overheating it really doesn't have much life left.

Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!

 

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O_O


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