I honestly don't know if this is the correct place for this sort of issue, but If it isn't forgive my ignorance.
Anyway, since about a week, several graphics just end up really heavily pixelated, leaving me unable to see what they're supposed to be like, i'll include an example (can get more if needed)
[Img]http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/6494/youtubefuzup.jpg[/Img]
(the text in the title for the video)
A few questions I expect to get:
Did You change anything before it happened? No, not a single thing for over a month (No driver update either, until today, didn't fix.)
Did you change hardware? No, nothing for several months.
The only thing that I've noticed is that for a week or 2 my Fan has been having to try harder and harder to keep my system cooled, resulting in a louder noise coming from it, I have no idea if that's relevant (Replacing entire system EXCEPT for the card in a month, hence me worrying this is because of the card)
Do you experience any type of artifacting whilst gaming?
Does it only happen to text (possible font corruption)?
What is your graphics card?
I doubt that the fans are the problem, In my experience overheating really just makes it crash alot, It could be with your card though, I had a problem where my Computer didn't know the Graphics card was there, that made the funny dragging effect when I scrolled & quite a few things were pixelated, It may be because of the fans allowing the card to overheat maybe. But, I really don't know. It seems like more of a software problem somewhere to me, a random error or something. I do however, know that having more than one problem with your computer at once usually results in a few more.
My advice is just keep going there is a wide range of solutions for these sort of random problems, from hardware compatibility to critical errors in software, these problems can take a long time to fix.
Just don't give up, don't look for solutions to this one problem, try & connect various things to other errors, you are likely to try alot of stuff that won't work. In the end, unless it is unfixable. (which you usually notice quite early) You'll get there in the end.
All I can say is good luck really, I'm only good at fixing this stuff usually if I'm there, it certainly seems fixable.
My best bet would be compatibility between your hardware.
Well Moby, to your comment about the comp not detecting the card, When I try to monitor the card, it says 0% activity for some reason (even during gaming).
It does render most graphics correctly, But still, some show up really heavily pixelated.
I have no idea what else could be causing this due to me not changing things prior to the issue.
Its probably overheating, Download HW monitor and check the temps after 10 minutes of load.
Also get drive sweeper remove the driver and reinstal.
The card is stable at 45degrees, unless the sensors on the card are broken (As it indicates 0% activity at all times)
I'll try reinstalling the drivers then.
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Small update (Sorry for the bumb if it occurs, My screen wont display the edit button)
Without drivers installed, The grapics are normal, no pixelation.
The moment I install the drivers, it messes up again.
Any ideas?
EDIT:
Additional information, might help.
I managed to narrow down the time when the issue happened, and came across this from microsoft.
Vulnerability in Canonical Display Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2032276)
This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the Canonical Display Driver (cdd.dll)
It was part of the windows update on that day, And exactly that's when everything started messing up.
This also explains why it works fine with No drivers, but once I install any drivers at all, Everything fucks up.
You can uninstall updates. Just find KB2032276 and uninstall through add and remove programs
I figured as much, but.
It's not there.
It's installed on my system, because it's not on the update list on microsoft update, (Only 1 was, and that's not the one).
But I can't find it, and can't remove it.
I'm switching computers in about a month, and thankfully this seems to indicate that it's not my card fucking up, but still, I'd like to fix it ={
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