Wavy Lines across my Screen, GFX Card?

Jim_Ow · 17 Oct 2009 at 17:24

Hi there,

I've been having over heating issues with my PC, as the Packard Bell case is pretty poor.

I started playing The Settlers again the other day .. and since this my PC has had some sort of graphics issues. The only way to describe it - it's as if my whole PC has had it's effects turned down.

Im hoping I haven't killed my graphics card,

There are rough edges around icons
Start Menu has obvious colour lines
Desktop has waves of colour patching
Tops of Windows have no shape at all (neither does Start Menu)

I'm hoping it's a setting that I've changed without realizing, or another obvious problem but nothing I have done seemed to fix the problem.

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb160/Pixom/Untitled.png
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb160/Pixom/Untitled-1.png
(Didn't want to paste whole screenshot into here)

Excuse the screenshot, bit on the far left wasn't suppose to be there.

Thanks.

drakt · 17 Oct 2009 at 17:31

forgive me if im missing something, but the screenshot looks fine to me? (its quite small tho)

if youre seeing something different to what i see there it leaves the problem with the output(dvi/vga) the cable or the monitor.

maybe im just being blind

edit: hmm i can see the color problems on the start menu and wallpaper now, i thought it was just picture compression. almost looks like like the color resolution has been put down low.

Jim_Ow · 17 Oct 2009 at 17:34

The striped pattern across the start menu, and the wavy lines in the desktop?

Aegis · 17 Oct 2009 at 17:41

Looks like your desktop might be set to 16bit colour (rather than 24/32bit) - right-click on the desktop and pick 'screen resolution/advanced settings/monitor'

Those can occur when the display device (or GFX card) doesn't have a high enough colour range to display all the shades. You can sometimes see this effect on a 24/32bit display but that's usually down to lossy image compression (JPEG etc.)

Jim_Ow · 17 Oct 2009 at 19:55

Aegis said:
Looks like your desktop might be set to 16bit colour (rather than 24/32bit) - right-click on the desktop and pick 'screen resolution/advanced settings/monitor'

Those can occur when the display device (or GFX card) doesn't have a high enough colour range to display all the shades. You can sometimes see this effect on a 24/32bit display but that's usually down to lossy image compression (JPEG etc.)

Thanks

It worked, not sure how that happened.