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video corruption on log in

spice_weasel

By spice_weasel,
Posted on: 2010-10-25 14:09 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

hi all,

after the last patch (prior to the halloween event) i found it difficult to log in to coh without hanging at the server screen and being completely stuck there. process explorer shows that coh is active, but running at 0% cpu, and i must close coh via process kill in task manager.

the nvidia driver used at the time was 257.21, an upgrade to 258.xx wouldn't allow me to log on any further than the server screen as well. a further upgrade to 260.89 also froze up at the server selection. including while in safe mode.

thinking there must be something wrong with the updater/coh .exe i reinstalled/patched with a new updater from 0 and still had problems, so i downgraded to 258, then back to 257.

now, i can log into the character selection, but am greeted with a completely corrupted image. the character name text is visible, the buttons to perform actions such as 'next' delete, etc are all present/visible/work and i can select a character and log in.

once logged in, i am still presented with a completely corrupt 2d digital collage, there are no 3d elements present. from here i enter the menu/options/graphics and manually set the graphics slider from quality to performance. the slider will hang a moment before suddenly presenting me with appropriate graphics and textures, then allowing me to slide the settings back up to quality where the game appears quite capable and happy to present on my video card with no issue (minor lag in the usual heavy areas such as invasions etc) including the ability to log out to character selection and be presented with an uncorrupted version of the selection screen.

the card does not appear to be running hot in any way. max 60 deg, fan at 50% in a very ventilated case.

no other program/game exhibits this behaviour.

typically running a dual view nvidia set up to allow for video to be presented on the alt screen. it should be noted that single monitor or multiple monitor set up has no effect.

standard hjthis/av/malware tests appear clear. hijackthis/searchanddestry/avast/malwarebytes are very well used on this system.

any thoughts? suggestions?

thanks for reading.

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