Detonator 40.72 problems

[HerbalKiller]

I have a Asus ti4600. It has worked perfectly up until I just installed the 40.72 drivers. now when playing WarCraft III. After I have been playing for a while, the picture start to become blocky and objects are identifiable. It eventually gets worse until it completely locks up and reboots automatically. When Windows comes back up it says there is a problem with the drives and do I want to submit a report. I do that and it takes me to microsoft website where they say they got nothing for me to help out. I switched back to some older drivers but the problem was still occuring. I even reformatted and reinstalled WinXP fresh with the new drivers and it is still messing up. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas.

I also thought a possibility woudl be that the card is overheating... since it start out working fine and then after a game or two it starts to screw up. It doesn't ever happen while I am doing none graphic intensive tasks, such as email or internet or music. haven't checked playign a DVD but will try that now. It also momentarily fixes it if I alt-tab out of Warcraft and the go back... but starts acting weird very quickly again. I do not have my cpu or graphics card overclocked. To my knowledge anyway. Thanks for any help.

HK

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

try running 3dmark, if it does the same thing maybe the card is overheating and updating the drivers was just a coincidence

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I'd say look in your case, make sure the video cards gpu fan is working, if it dies, I probably wouldn't kill over until after you stressed the card a bit, I've seen GF3's do this a lot in the field, for some reason the just stop ticking...no loud noise or anything. forget 3dmark it's only for showing off large numbers to your friends and doesn't really stress you graphics card that much anyway unless you loop it at least 3-4 times with all the eye-candy turned on. But it could be the drivers are having a problem with your card, have you tried using the drivers that came with it again since re-installing WinXP?

 

[HerbalKiller]

Well. I haven't tried it with the drivers that came with the card. I have played Empire Earth though.. .and it does the same thing after playing for a while. I also started watching the gpu fan and seemed to notice that it was spinning but every now and then it seemed to get stuck.. I am going to get another fan and see if that helps. Thanks for the input.

HK