Graphic Texture Issue
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This is an issue I've been having for a while now, not fully sure exactly whats wrong much less how to fix it. I'll start with a few links to pictures of what happens, there are two pictures in sets of original + warped:
WC III Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wciiioriginal.jpg
WC III Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wciiimessedup.jpg
Bioshock Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/original.jpg
Bioshock Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/doh.jpg
WoW Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wownormal-1.jpg
WoW Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wowwarped.jpg
TF 2 Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/TF2warp.jpg
It appears to be a texture issue, and generally the text gets warped like in the 2nd image from Bioshock. This issue generally occurs after switching games, the inital loading of the game, or alt tabbing out and back into a game. It happens much more often with WC III than WoW, TF2, L4D, and other games. I have already sent to it ECS to get it tested in which they responded (which took the whole summer to take them to do more than just ask the simple questions and if i could switch out other hardware, file a complaint, get an RMA number, get it sent in and sent back). They stated that the video card seemed fine and had no errors when testing. I initially had Direct X error on my original install of windows xp, but I have reformated multiple times since then.
At this point I have given up on the problem and just restart every time the graphics warp out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
This is an issue I've been having for a while now, not fully sure exactly whats wrong much less how to fix it. I'll start with a few links to pictures of what happens, there are two pictures in sets of original + warped:
WC III Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wciiioriginal.jpg
WC III Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wciiimessedup.jpg
Bioshock Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/original.jpg
Bioshock Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/doh.jpg
WoW Original:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wownormal-1.jpg
WoW Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/wowwarped.jpg
TF 2 Warped:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c205/Dengar876/Messed%20up%20Video%20Card/TF2warp.jpg
It appears to be a texture issue, and generally the text gets warped like in the 2nd image from Bioshock. This issue generally occurs after switching games, the inital loading of the game, or alt tabbing out and back into a game. It happens much more often with WC III than WoW, TF2, L4D, and other games. I have already sent to it ECS to get it tested in which they responded (which took the whole summer to take them to do more than just ask the simple questions and if i could switch out other hardware, file a complaint, get an RMA number, get it sent in and sent back). They stated that the video card seemed fine and had no errors when testing. I initially had Direct X error on my original install of windows xp, but I have reformated multiple times since then.
At this point I have given up on the problem and just restart every time the graphics warp out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Meaning I'm screwed? Or a common issue thats easily resolved?
I'm confident that other people will echo my sentiment about the GPU, and if not that, then a power supply that's failing to provide proper voltage.
Thanks for the help Thrax
I'm off to bed for the night.
GPU issues such as this are primarily caused by a failing GPU. Next would typically be RAM, but you're not having any freezing or blue screens that always come with bad RAM. That leaves a power supply that's not providing enough power to the GPU; this would make the GPU brown out and act peculiar. From there, there are any number of possibilities that can't really be undertaken in any one order.