Dying Video Card?

Its not the first time its happened but today i am getting several sets of vertical lines on my screen. I don't have a spare monitor to test if monitor and was able to check drivers for my video card and did update with no change.

My system is at least four years old and has been acting up on several issues. The lines on the screen is new. The problem also prevents smooth scrolling when looking at internet or other document. Any suggestion on what the problem might be would be helpful. Thank you

Celtic Fist

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Check to make sure the Dust Bunnies haven't been nesting in your fans; I've had that cause similar video glitches before.

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COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes

I do have some dust issues. Opened case and vacuumed it. Took graphics card out and cleaned that as well. STill get lines up and down the screen.

I tried to launch CoH and got this message
"An open GL driver for your video card was not found." and the game wont launch

Video Card is a GeForce 8800 GTS.

I did update drivers this morning so I think it might be the graphics card.

Thanks for reply .. Celtic Fist

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Try reinstalling the driver, after using Driver Sweeper (free) to remove all traces of old driver. Defrag, if you need to. If you can get into the game, make sure that the 'geometry buffers' are disabled in your settings. Good luck and don't give up!

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�Many things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.�

With Drive Sweeper do I just do an analysis of the "display" for Nvdia card? Then clean it followed by going to Nvdia site to get latest set of driver?

Read few reviews of the product and it appeared to have mostly favorable but a few mention to be cautious using the program to not wipe out other drivers.

Thank you

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Download but don't install the drivers.

Download and install Driver Sweeper but don't run it yet.

Uninstall the existing video drivers and related nVidia video software.

Reboot into Windows Safe Mode.

Run Driver Sweeper in Safe Mode and have it remove all of the leftover files from the nVidia video drivers.

Reboot when prompted by Driver Sweeper and go into normal Windows mode.

Install the drivers you downloaded in the first step.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

Everytime I've had the lines thing it was a sign of a bad GPU, but definitely test the other stuff first just in case.

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I followed the suggestions with regards to driver sweep. It said it could not find a few files (registry) even when trying in safe mode. I only did the Nvdia display not touching any other driver areas. When system came back up few error messages I guess associated with the drivers I just got eliminated.

I ran the saved filed from Nvdia and rebooted and i still had the vertical lines on the display and trying CoH it gave me the message :

An open GL driver for your video card was not found.

So stuck again not sure what next step other then get a new system. Any other suggestions? Also, great community offer help .. thanks

Celtic Fist

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That message about not finding an OpenGL driver usually only happens when it installs the default Windows driver.

It sounds like it didn't take the nVidia driver installation for some reason.

In most cases it wouldn't take getting a whole new system, just replacing the video card.

In order to make any recommendations though about what card your system can handle we'd need more information.

A CoH Helper report would be the first step. You can find instructions for downloading and running CoH Helper and posting the output file to the forums in Hyperstrike's [Guide] Asking for technical help on the forums that is stickied in this section.

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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

Sounds doomed to me.

I had something like that when my 8800GT died. It would die in game after about 10 seconds and die in safe mode after about 30 seconds. When I ran stress tests on the thing with synthetic benchmarks it was fine. Then about a week later machine boots up no video. Welp so much for the video card.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

Video card was 8800 GTS 640-P2-N821-AR 640MB PCI-E

I found a few no sale on ebay for under 50 bucks which does not seem unreasonable as long as it would work for while longer. I remember paying over $300 from newegg when i built the machine.

On family vacation for a few days.

Celtic Fist

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This, 9800GT, has similar if not slightly better performance for around the same price.

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I would not buy stuff off ebay esp video cards. Those are often fairly abused. Nvidia cards over 2 years old can just up and die too. I would not be too surprised that those cards being unloaded are in the early stages of video card death. They still work sort of...

Anyways, GL and hope you don't get burned.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

Thanks for the recommendation on the card. I will try to order and the price seems reasonable. I am looking to upgrade the system in several months so this might be the trick to keep it going for a while longer.

Celtic Fist

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I received the new video card and installed it today. Everything graphic is working well. So thanks for advice .. now the darn DVD disk drive will not open. I guess another purchase to keep the system going for few more months.

Nice to be back to CoH after a week off !!

Celtic Fist

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COH has just been murdered by NCSoft. http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes

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