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Need some help troubleshooting a really weird problem.

BobbyBBB

BobbyBBB

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On my new system I have been having some graphical problems mainly in source engine games.

BFG 9800GTX 512
Q6600
4GB RAM (OCZ Vista Gold Series DDR2)
PK5 Intel Mobo
OCZ StealthXStream 600w PSU
Windows XP SP2 (64bit)


Below are some screenshots of the texture corruption. Now the thing is this happens usually within a few mins of starting up CSS and if it does not happen I can play as long as I want (played for 2 hours without ANY problems at all this morning). Once I played for 15mins and I got a CTD though (could have been unrelated).

What's really bugging me is i can't figure out what the problem is, sure I could RMA the card but that may not be then problem (also card has 10 years warrenty so no rush :p)

I have played and completed Call of Juarez for over 8 hours straight day after I put the system together and I have played MTW2 for an overall total of 15 hours (most of this is on the campaign map though so not exactly stressing the GPU). CoJ and MTW 2 I have had no problems (exept once when source was acting up I launched a quick battle on MTW2 and i had some texture issues like the grey ones in the first CSS screenshot, but after I rebooted MTW was fine).

In 3D mark 05 I once had a grey texture problem in the 2nd test(the wisp thing in the wood) but I have not been able to replicate this.




ScreenShots

CSS*
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5912/css1ib9.jpg
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7627/css2dm7.jpg
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1219/css3zk6.jpg

TF2
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2546/tf21ok0.jpg


*These CSS shots were all taken within 2mins of eachother, I alt tabbed out and when I came back I got new pretty coulors:rolleyes::p


Just before the texture problem happens the screen like freezes and flashes a few times then the textures mess up (this exact thing happend the one time MTW2 messed up)

Things I have tried so far

:Memtest86 - ran for 10 hours no errors
:Prime95 - 2hours with no errors (I intend to run this again for longer soon)
:Updated DirectX to latest release.
:Tried different graphics drivers


My best guesses for what the problem is are

:Graphics Driver problems? (any idea when next nividia drivers are out?)
:GPU memory problem?
:Some kind of windows page file problem?


Sorry for the wall of text but I wanted anyone who reads this to know exactly what is happening, I really appriciate any help or random ideas anyone can offer

Thanks for reading!:)
 
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Have you overclocked it at all? I get the same graphical errors if ive pushed the card a bit too much... screen freezes, comes out of the freeze with bright colours and the text turns into blocks.
 
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Pedros said:
Have you overclocked it at all? I get the same graphical errors if ive pushed the card a bit too much... screen freezes, comes out of the freeze with bright colours and the text turns into blocks.
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Nope not done any overclocking. When you say the same errors are they very close to those screenshots? if so i guess this probs is a GPU hardware problem But I don't get how sometimes it can work fine for hours on end though if it is hardware :confused:
 
They're nearly exactly the same. Try under-clocking the card and see what happens. I know you shouldn't have to but if it works fine with a under-clock then the card cant handle the clocks set by the distributor and backs up your case for an RMA
 
Riva tuner reports 58 idle and it did not go past 62 when I was testing on CSS (was only on for 10mins though). got the texture corruption while testing too.
 
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