I don't know how to describe what I see when I'm playing. It looks like various planes in the game are stretched and distort the screen.

It's happened with Never Winter Nights 2 and WoW.


Intel Pentium D 3.4GHz
Mobo is ASRock 775Dual-VSTA
Vid Card is Sapphire 2600pro 512mb pcie
2gb DDR2 ram

Im not sure what to adjust or where. I've fooled with the settings of the card, and I'm not even sure what to google for for help



Please advise

10/8/2008 7:49:55 PM

Uninstall video driver, restart
Install latest video driver for you graphics card, restart

If problem persists, it's likely your VRAM is failing on the card and you'll need an RMA.

I only say look into the driver issue first because it's not typical artifacting. You can also reduce your video detail settings in game and see if the problem goes away, it could be it's overheating your video card, but it's not likely with a game as old as WoW and a 2600 pro

10/8/2008 8:03:53 PM

Reinstall directX while you're at it.


and you might want to run 3dmark or something and stress test the card.

[Edited on October 8, 2008 at 9:30 PM. Reason : that looks hella-bad]

10/8/2008 9:28:45 PM

Driver Update has been done already...I'll try the reinstall of Direct X

10/8/2008 10:09:44 PM

If you've overclocked your card, set it back to factory settings...

10/9/2008 1:29:46 AM

^ I haven't overclocked this card


Could this be the result of some sort of thermal problem? I mean, I could make it so the card stays a lot cooler by placing the air intake on the case directly over my A/C vent, but I dont want to re arrange shit in my office unless I have to

10/9/2008 7:16:27 AM

that's a sweet looking staff, wtb

10/9/2008 8:42:37 AM

WoW shouldn't be overheating your card under any normal circumstances.

10/9/2008 9:14:20 AM

I had this problem in the past. there's a program I had called like pc-burn in or something identified corrupt video memory. it's heat activated. rma the card.

10/9/2008 12:48:18 PM

my video card on my laptop was doing the same thing earlier this year. Updated the drivers and reinstalled directX. Ran the laptop through a full diagnostics and found a number of corrupted video memory addresses. RMA my laptop and now works fine.

10/9/2008 8:38:37 PM

My shits been doing this too in Warhammer.


What exactly is RMA kids.

10/10/2008 1:49:40 PM

Rubber Manufacturers Association

10/10/2008 3:31:00 PM

Rectal Migratory Acrobats

10/10/2008 4:03:25 PM

Roberts Magical Acorns

10/10/2008 8:45:36 PM

Rum Makers Afterthought

10/10/2008 10:47:18 PM

Quote :

"that's a sweet looking staff, wtb"

~

10/11/2008 3:45:41 AM

lolz the sweet looking staff is part of the probem...I think the character was armed with a club at the time


When I change the multisampling in WoW in the video options, it will temporarily fix teh issue, but when I come into a town or mission or something, the rendering will go to shit again.

if only i had a Risk Managment Audit

10/11/2008 11:01:16 AM

bttt


Ok I RMA'd the card and received a replacement. The plane distortion continues:






Any other ideas?

[Edited on November 14, 2008 at 6:54 AM. Reason : brightened w/ photochop]

11/14/2008 6:53:57 AM

RMA the second card? I mean it's not impossible to get another faulty card... especially if their return policy is replace a faulty card with a refurbished one.

[Edited on November 14, 2008 at 8:19 AM. Reason : -]

11/14/2008 8:04:43 AM

Download gpuz check the clock rates on the core and memory. More important probably for the memory. Compare those to what your stock is. If they are higher then turn them down with CCC. Actually. Just try turning down your clocks in CCC anyway. I would start by like 5 or 10 for core and memory... then maybe more. This may get you to a stable range. Sucks if you have to underclock your card to get it to work though. If it does work then I would probably RMA the card again... Cause you know its junk.

A second thought is check in your bios. If you have a board that allows for adjusting the PCI-e clock rate or overclock the card (vga overclocking or something like that) in any way through the board you want to turn that off. The standard clock setting on my board for my graphics card is 100mhz.

Hope that helps.

11/14/2008 4:17:34 PM

^ The standard frequency for PCI-e is 100MHz. It should be set to that for everybody

11/14/2008 5:54:26 PM

it's G.O.D telling you to stop playing wow

11/14/2008 6:12:08 PM

^agreed

11/15/2008 5:38:10 PM