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[The_Jakkal]

Alright...

Usually, when Im playing, sometimes a bit of my textures turn into this rainbow colored, skittles looking thing heh. Sometimes its the ground, cockpit, wings on the planes, but never all at once. Just patches. it looks like someone just glued skittles all over the place lol. Anyone heard of this before? Im assuming its a video card issue. Im running the Catalyst 4.1 drivers, Radeon 9200.

One thing also, when I ran dxdiag, and Direct3D ... the box that spins with Direct X on the side, was spinning at about 1,000,000,000mph. Super fast. Im running this version of dx: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)

Any ideas? Here is a link to the screenshot:

http://www.angelfire.com/clone/bdtactics/skittle.jpg

[The_Jakkal]

Alright...

Usually, when Im playing, sometimes a bit of my textures turn into this rainbow colored, skittles looking thing heh. Sometimes its the ground, cockpit, wings on the planes, but never all at once. Just patches. it looks like someone just glued skittles all over the place lol. Anyone heard of this before? Im assuming its a video card issue. Im running the Catalyst 4.1 drivers, Radeon 9200.

One thing also, when I ran dxdiag, and Direct3D ... the box that spins with Direct X on the side, was spinning at about 1,000,000,000mph. Super fast. Im running this version of dx: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902)

Any ideas? Here is a link to the screenshot:

http://www.angelfire.com/clone/bdtactics/skittle.jpg

[neurosis666]

Any overclocking?



"Perpetual peace is no empty idea, but a practical thing which, through its gradual solution, is coming always nearer its final realization."
-- Kant.

[RMAXX]

Kak? Looks like we are in the same boat. read my post

AMD2700+
1gbRAM@166
ATI-9800PRO
W2K-Dx9.b
age38, simmer since
F19-Stealth Fighter

[russianfish]

I would say video RAM getting to hot or going south.

[neurosis666]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by russianfish:
I would say video RAM getting to hot or going south.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I would tend to agree.. Either that or the GPU is overheating. I've seen stuff like this before when I've cranked up the RAM/GPU clockspeed a bit too much. Try underclocking and see if it helps?



"Perpetual peace is no empty idea, but a practical thing which, through its gradual solution, is coming always nearer its final realization."
-- Kant.

[UK_Rocket]

There has been the odd occasion where I get the same problem. The blocks of graphics appear randomly, but very infrequently. I'm running an ATI Radeon 8500...so i guess it might be getting a little hot.....but i have not overclocked it.

As to a solution... I just ALT-TAB out, and upon return, everythings fine

Rocket

[The_Jakkal]

thanks guys No overclocking here. and Alt-Tabbing is fine, but its frustrating after awhile. Maybe it is overheating...hmm

[warningtone]

maybe your fan and heat sink is so crud covered,
it can hold heat in, blanket off human skin
on the fan and heat sink, spray it off with
a can of air to clean, dont use moms hair
blower .

1 other tip overclocking can cause freak outs
over time with some hardware ,not a beliver
in overcooking sorry overclocking