do i need a new graphics card?

you bastard, question mark, lol

well done baph. Not quite up there with the jules t-shirts. But it's a comfy u-turn, like drinking coco whilst lying on the couch under a quilt and typing this message.

~~~mmm, chocolate forumee

make sure there aren't any children under the hood, messing with the wires.

  On 5/12/2011 at 7:37 AM, Luke Fucking Hazard said:

make sure there aren't any children under the hood, messing with the wires.

You mean that could be a problem.

hrmm, i mean

  On 5/12/2011 at 5:15 AM, chaosmachine said:

 

easy.

LOL

I actually went and googled enable IDM mode.

I was like why haven't I seen that before.

Then it hit me.

Now on a serious note. Cave Johnson here! Install the latest AMD Drivers for your card. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

You might have to uinstall the old ones via Windows Uinstall Manager, install a program called Driver Sweeper, resart your PC then boot into safe mode run driver sweepr have it scan for ATI drivers and have it clean them dry.

After that install the latest drivers and you should be worry free from Driver issues. (Unless AMD released shitty drivers again).

Tell me your system specs in detail. Sometimes even faulty ram might cause graphical issues in game. Did you check your RAM? Do a RAM test.

I can't see the screenshots but if you are getting random screen artifacts but not any errors, its most likely GPU ram corruption. Meaning you need a new video card.

  On 5/12/2011 at 9:52 PM, acid1 said:

I can't see the screenshots but if you are getting random screen artifacts but not any errors, its most likely GPU ram corruption. Meaning you need a new video card.

^ This

Here are some tools to check for errors in GPU RAM:

http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php?Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/

https://simtk.org/home/memtest/

Nice artifacts though, does it crash?

it doesn't crash, it's just slightly annoying with all these damn glitches since i can't really afford a new card right now.

  On 5/12/2011 at 9:40 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

Did you check your RAM? Do a RAM test.

are you talking about gpu ram or regular ram? how do i test the regular ram?

  On 5/12/2011 at 10:23 PM, Ego said:

Here are some tools to check for errors in GPU RAM:

http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php?Download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudagpumemtest/

https://simtk.org/home/memtest/

i'll try those.

I love you data

a+ thread, would read again.

  On 5/12/2011 at 3:25 AM, data said:

here's what my screen looks like right now, what the fuck?

 

http://i52.tinypic.com/2kix3k.jpg

 

it's been acting up a couple of times over the past weeks, but nowhere near as bad as this.

 

still, looks better than my screen:

do i need a new screen?

Take some more screenshots, and send me the cool ones so I can use them as album art.

EDIT: please?

  On 5/13/2011 at 2:15 AM, data said:

i can't really afford a new card right now.

Didn't buy your computer that long ago did you? The card might still be under warranty, depending on the manufacturer, place you bought it from. Worth looking into.

  On 5/12/2011 at 5:15 AM, chaosmachine said:

 

easy.

haha :')

looks pretty idm to me.

Yeah definitely seems like a chip or two is giving up on your graphics card. My old lappy used to do that before it finally gave up the ghost and had a similar mental graphical effect when playing 3d games -

  On 5/12/2011 at 9:40 AM, ZiggomaticV17 said:

I actually went and googled enable IDM mode.

 

I was like why haven't I seen that before.

 

Then it hit me.

 

 

That's adorable. !!