It's most prominent in World of Warcraft (my fiancee plays) - as provided below:
It's mostly discolored polygons dashing out across the screen. It happens in the form of bars running down the screen when not playing WoW. It's totally random and happens just out of the blue.
Anyone else ever experience this problem?
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Didn't your mama ever tell you not to tango with a carrot?
only time ive had something like that happen was when i had updated my drivers back when i was playing EQ.
I had to roll my drivers back to fix the problem. try uninstalling and re-installing your video card drivers, if that doesnt work then make sure you have the most current drivers, if that doesnt work, roll your drivers back...
It could be overheating, or it could be fucked up drivers.
I'd make sure the fan is spinning and clean out any dust in it like Kulaf said, then download Driver Cleaner here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745 run it and get rid of all the old crap then install the latest drivers for the card.
I'll try all of that. For the meantime (my girly gets MEAN when she can't raid SSC w/her pally) I stuck in the video card that came with my machine that never worked. It's a Radeon 9800 as well. I don't know why I like those cards so much *ponder*
Didn't your mama ever tell you not to tango with a carrot?
Most likely if the problem is persistent, the memory on the card has some stuck rows. If so, you're screwed. if it's simply over heating, the artifacting should be the first warning sign that you need to shut the game down, and find out why it's getting too hot. I think most cards have a VPU warning that will pop if it overheats or there is some other problem.
I had a problem several years ago with artifacting and VPU lockups on a few third party Radeon 9800's, but they were new cards on a new motherboard. I tried a couple replacements, and finally went with a real ATi card instead of a third party card.
It's why whenever I give anyone a recomendation for buying computer hardware that I never even mention OC'ing. Everyone seems to think that this practice should be the norm and is safe to do. Well it shouldn't be......and it oft times isn't even when you know what you are doing.
I assume by now the problem is either fixed or the card is replaced, but one thing I've noticed over the years is that performance video cards are the most failure-prone solid state component in a computer. A common culprit is power regulation circuitry--voltage regulators and capacitors in particular. The bad part here is that at first the problem may manifest as a drop in performance, followed by seeming memory errors, until finally the card literally blows out sometimes taking the motherboard with it.
Whenever you dust the inside of your computer, inspect all the capacitors you can find and make sure they aren't bulging or worse, leaking.
