• Graphics card fuck ups
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I got a [B]BFG GTX 285 1GB OCX[/B] for Christmas and it cannot play games properly Sometimes; [LIST] [*]the textures flicker in games, usually flicker white or black [*]artifacts appear, such as pink squares in STALKER, but usually appear for a split second, similar to the flickering [*]crashes to desktop in games such as TF2, sometimes ending with artifacts all over my desktop after the crash [*]I cannot run some games in full screen because they flicker and crash [/LIST] I've updated to the latest drivers, and I don't know what else to do. Please help.
Post load temps. And specs including PSU.
650W Corsair 4096MB Corsair Dominator 1600MHz DDR3 Intel i5 750 @ 2.67GHz 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green ASUS P7P55D Pro Intel P55 Mobo After spamming some barrels around in gmod; Under load: 54C
Gmod cannot stress that card enough, go blow up some barrels in crysis instead. Lots of them.
Yeah give that a whirl ^
I don't have Crysis.. there's not much else I can use.
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[QUOTE=j-richardson;19824572]I don't have Crysis.. there's not much else I can use.[/QUOTE] Crysis do have a free demo, you can go ahead and play it for a while, then check the temperatures
Alright hitting about 75C in Clear Sky. [editline]06:27PM[/editline] Okay now my screen is covered in artifacts, and Stalker is just a fuzzy mess. 76C is the max. I'll post a photo I took in a sec [editline]06:31PM[/editline] [img]http://i48.tinypic.com/2m7el3c.jpg[/img] [img]http://i48.tinypic.com/1zv6fqt.jpg[/img]
Is vertical sync on?
Yeah
Well turn it off?
Did nothing.
Try underclocking it, to like half its power. See if it still does that.
What I would advise as last resort, is carefully but powerfully cleaning the contacts of the PCI connector on the cart. I mean these golden fields that you stick in the slot. Rubbing them with normal eraser rubber works well. (copied from the other thread)
Had something like that before, turned out the RAMDAC was faulty.. have you got your screen connected through DVI or VGA?
Put it in the oven. It fixed my 8800GT
i know,...maybe something wrong with your graphics card...i have same problem before (with 9800GT)
sounds like a dead card to me. RMA it, BFG has a rather amazing RMA program.
[QUOTE=thedekoykid;19850669]Put it in the oven. It fixed my 8800GT[/QUOTE] omg omg I saw on the internet some guy put his card in the oven to fix a specific problem, this is clearly some sort of fucking miracle cure and will fix completely unrelated problems I don't know why they bury dead people we could just put them in an oven and they'd come back to life
[QUOTE=reapaninja;19858651]omg omg I saw on the internet some guy put his card in the oven to fix a specific problem, this is clearly some sort of fucking miracle cure and will fix completely unrelated problems I don't know why they bury dead people we could just put them in an oven and they'd come back to life[/QUOTE] Lol no. Xboxs overheat enough to provide there own solder reflow.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;19858651]omg omg I saw on the internet some guy put his card in the oven to fix a specific problem, this is clearly some sort of fucking miracle cure and will fix completely unrelated problems I don't know why they bury dead people we could just put them in an oven and they'd come back to life[/QUOTE] it's the same theory as the towel trick with the 360s. which, iirc, melts the specific controller/sensor that basically says HEY MAN WE'RE GONNA DIE STOP WORKING STOP WORKING
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