Artifacting on a MBP in STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl - Hardware & Software

I was playing STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, and this happened: [IMG]http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss72/Makol16_photos/ss_liammakowski_09-27-09_17-53-37_l.jpg[/IMG]Is this bad? specs are: Intel Core2Duo 2.0ghz Crucial 4gb DDR3 ram Nivida 9400m 512mb (shared with main memory) 160gb hard drive Windows XP SP 3 [highlight](User was banned for this post ("UTT" - compwhizii))[/highlight]

thats what I was thinking and i just noticed the typo in the title, it = is

[QUOTE=Makol;17542645] 160gb hard drive [/QUOTE] What the fuck, upgrade your hard drive.

[url=http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php]HWMonitor[/url] post screenshot of temps

Either your graphics card's mem is shitting or your ram is shitting. Or you have improperly installed drivers

and of course we all know HDDs are related to problems about graphics :downs: ever considered maybe he has different needs to you, mister self absorbed?

[QUOTE=ze spy;17542707]What the fuck, upgrade your hard drive.[/QUOTE] no

Looks liek your VRAM is dying. Good thing, you need a decent GPU anyway.

[QUOTE=TheMadness;17542710][url=http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php]HWMonitor[/url] post screenshot of temps[/QUOTE] I have installed that installed already. I'll start up the game and run around and post temps. would that be good?

both idle and load would be good

ok, give me a few minutes. I'm eating some awesome noodles :smile:

Uhm, there is only two words explanation for this: Graphical artifaction. There could be many reasons why it's doing this but the most likely: 1) GPU/GFX RAM Overheating 2) GPU/GFX RAM Overclocking 3) Permanent damage to the GPU and or graphical memory 4) Outdated/Tampered/Incompatible driver phenomena

idle [IMG]http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss72/Makol16_photos/idletemps.jpg[/IMG] under load [IMG]http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss72/Makol16_photos/stalkertemps.jpg[/IMG] this is a MacBook, so it gets pretty hot and the area I live in gets very hot but tonight it's quite cool. [QUOTE=BKDRUMMER;17542869]Uhm, there is only two words explanation for this: Graphical artifaction. There could be many reasons why it's doing this but the most likely: 1) GPU/GFX RAM Overheating 2) GPU/GFX RAM Overclocking 3) Permanent damage to the GPU and or graphical memory 4) Outdated/Tampered/Incompatible driver phenomena[/QUOTE] there is no overclocking and the drivers are recent, so it must be overheating or there is some damage. [editline]06:33PM[/editline] is my little MacBook dying? :ohdear:

Oh well no shit. You're running it on a mac, this is emulation. Nothing is bound to work correctly.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;17543257]Oh well no shit. You're running it on a mac, this is emulation. Nothing is bound to work correctly.[/QUOTE] Actually no. This is windows running natively.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;17543257]Oh well no shit. You're running it on a mac, this is emulation. Nothing is bound to work correctly.[/QUOTE] no it's not, boot camp is not emulation. get your facts right.

I'm on a mac, I've had tons of problems in windows using bootcamp.

[QUOTE=Unreliable;17543323]I'm on a mac, I've had tons of problems in windows using bootcamp.[/QUOTE] It's still not emulation.

what is UTT? and Unreliable, you must has done something wrong when installing Boot Camp.

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I don't care if it's emulation, nothing is bound to work correctly, it's using EFI. Which is basically a flasher for firmware.

that is a lame reason to ban someone but whatever, rules are rules. and Unreliable, you must have bad luck beause I have boot camp running on 3 different Macs an this is my first issue, I've been using boot camp since it was in beta. [editline]07:05PM[/editline] so does anyone know what is wrong?

[QUOTE=Makol 3G S;17543668]that is a lame reason to ban someone but whatever, rules are rules. and Unreliable, you must have bad luck beause I have boot camp running on 3 different Macs an this is my first issue, I've been using boot camp since it was in beta.[/QUOTE] No this is definitely hardware related. If it had anything to do with bootcamp, the game would not run in the first place or you would receive notice by critical error or warning. It is most likely that your GPU may be dying if you experience this problem with any other game engines after prolonged gameplay. Try doing stress tests on your GPU with PCWizard or DXDiag.

ok, are these programs downloads? I still know nothing about windows... [editline]07:08PM[/editline] wait, why is my ip banned?

Yeah [url=http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php]PCWizard[/url] is free, and [url=http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/how-to-run-a-directx-diagnostic-on-xp/]DirectX Diagnostic Tool[/url] should be already available with your pre-installed DirectX, to access it go to START > RUN and type dxdiag. If not, download DirectX 9.0c (Full) and it should come with a diagnostic utility.

ok so I download PC Wizard 2009, now what do I do?

Install it, and run. On the bottom left there is a tab called 'benchmark' use it for your video card to see if it passes. The benchmark alone looks like an artifacting but if it freezes, stalls, crashes or an error occurs than you have found your problem. Also run a DX test as well as I explained.

ok so I did the DirectX benchmark and a blue screen flash and the computer restarted, I'm guessing that is bad.

Sorry to tell you this but it definitely sounds like hardware failure. The only other remedy is to consider purchasing a new laptop as there are hardly any options for MacBook compatible mobile GPU's.