Soldato
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*EDIT* - Damn typo in thread title 
Hi all,
I have recently upgraded my PC to the following:
E8400 @ 3.6Ghz with Noctua HSF
ASUS P5Q-Pro motherboard
4Gb (2x2Gb) Kingston 8500 RAM (The stuff on special offer atm)
Sapphire 4870 1Gb
I am also running on Windows 7 Build 7068.
So far, everything has been great (with the exception of PB kicks in COD4 and BF2), however I had some problems with the Empire Total War demo last night which had me concerned.
The demo booted up fine and I went to the graphics options. Most of the options were on but I ticked a few more (I think they were the options for fog and atmospheric haze or something). I saved changes and the screen loaded again (took about 10 seconds). When it came back I had loads of graphics glitches which to me looked like the card was dying. There was no distorted colour but it just looked really odd.
I quit the game, loaded back up, and now everything was just black, I could hear the menus clicking as rolled the mouse around but I couldn't see anything.
I went to the CCC and changed an option on the 3D section which I had moved to 'Better Quality' (or something similar), and I moved this back to the default of 'Balanced' (or something similar).
I booted again and even with the extra options on the game loaded and played very well.
Also, in BF2 I get no issues. However I loaded Project Reality and got major errors, with models and textures being invisible, helicopters were all purple and stuff. I have yet to try it again since changing the above setting in the CCC.
Anyway, could this possibly be that my GPU is underpowered as I only have a 580w Hiper Type-R PSU?
Or could the GFX card be screwed?
Or could it just be because I am on a beta OS?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
Hi all,
I have recently upgraded my PC to the following:
E8400 @ 3.6Ghz with Noctua HSF
ASUS P5Q-Pro motherboard
4Gb (2x2Gb) Kingston 8500 RAM (The stuff on special offer atm)
Sapphire 4870 1Gb
I am also running on Windows 7 Build 7068.
So far, everything has been great (with the exception of PB kicks in COD4 and BF2), however I had some problems with the Empire Total War demo last night which had me concerned.
The demo booted up fine and I went to the graphics options. Most of the options were on but I ticked a few more (I think they were the options for fog and atmospheric haze or something). I saved changes and the screen loaded again (took about 10 seconds). When it came back I had loads of graphics glitches which to me looked like the card was dying. There was no distorted colour but it just looked really odd.
I quit the game, loaded back up, and now everything was just black, I could hear the menus clicking as rolled the mouse around but I couldn't see anything.
I went to the CCC and changed an option on the 3D section which I had moved to 'Better Quality' (or something similar), and I moved this back to the default of 'Balanced' (or something similar).
I booted again and even with the extra options on the game loaded and played very well.
Also, in BF2 I get no issues. However I loaded Project Reality and got major errors, with models and textures being invisible, helicopters were all purple and stuff. I have yet to try it again since changing the above setting in the CCC.
Anyway, could this possibly be that my GPU is underpowered as I only have a 580w Hiper Type-R PSU?
Or could the GFX card be screwed?
Or could it just be because I am on a beta OS?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
