Help! Artifacts! Only When In Game

[thescreensavers]

In my desktop, or watching a movie no artifacts, but when I go into my game I get checker boxes of Red!!


Whats wrong? I am on my laptop lol hopefully it is not dieing

 

[lyssword]

prolly because the graphix chip on your laptop is overheating. Maybe there's too much dust on the heatsink/fan of that chip, but then I could b wrong

 

[Syntax Error]

Do you periodically clean your air vents or do you game on, say, carpet or your bed? Your laptop seems like it needs cool air flowing in, and with how cramped laptops are to begin with, overheating is NOT good inside of that box.

 

[thescreensavers]

^^

I have taken apart my laptop, Put new thermal Interface (AS5) on the gpu, and I still experience the same Issues. I dont think it is the Video card, I think its defective Memory. IF I hit my computer, tap it w/e the problem can periodically change from better to worse or visa versa.


I am in need of a new Motherboard. Yea I just called the for a price quote. The laptop is almost 2 years old, I paid 1500 for it. How much would you pay for a new mobo before buying a new one? 1/3 of the price?

 

[Syntax Error]

I would not pay $500 for a new laptop mobo, that's like the price of a laptop mobo for enthusiast gamer laptops TODAY. I'd rather get a new laptop for around $500, that's gotta be around the same performance as your 2 year old laptop, if you ask me.

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: Syntax Error
I would not pay $500 for a new laptop mobo, that's like the price of a laptop mobo for enthusiast gamer laptops TODAY. I'd rather get a new laptop for around $500, that's gotta be around the same performance as your 2 year old laptop, if you ask me.

500$ will not get me near the performance that I got in this one lol, It has a an X700 256mb Not shared with ram, and it has an AMD Turion MT-40 2.4 ghz. Sure the CPU might be faster but gpu will be some integrated crap

 

[taltamir]

when watching a movie or in the desktop your output is rendered by the CPU and merely passess through the video card. So your video card is not actually doing real work.

When you are playing a game your video card does real work...

I saw defective cards that will crash as soon as a 3d game would run, but as long as you were in the desktop, watching movie, or running CPU rendered 2d games (like ur quan masters) it was fine.


So to answer your question, you most like do not have overheating problem, but a defective video card.