Is it possible? BF 1942 physically damagign video card?

[Citadel535]

I had a Radeon 8500 and the video memory on the card went, when playing 3d games the shapes were distorted probably due to the memory locations reporting the wrong values. I first noticed this in battlefield 1942, other games did not show the problem that much. I RMAed the card and replaced it, did not run BF 1942.

I would normally think nothing of this but...

I bought a new Dell with a GF4MX that I put the 8500 in its place, reinstalled OS, etc. Working fine for around three months, I install BF 1942 and ran it for a few weeks no problems. However, I began to notice that the same thing was happenning, the shapes were started to come out all weird showing that the video was weird. It made me wonder what was going on. I had an older PC that I put the new but crappy GF4 MX in, BF 1942 ran without problems.

Is it possible that the video memory could be damaged by BF 1942 with Radeons? I have to RMA another card!!! (Note: Nothing is running changed on my system all running out of the box)

 

[FluxCap]

BF is coded like crap in my opinion. It is super fun but it has so many issues with so many different systems. BUT I doubt a game would mess up your card unless it is overheating.

 

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I noticed similar problems in BF1942. I was overclocking my card@300/600. I would only see artifacts in BF. so I backed off with overclocking...still got artifacts, just less frequent. I downgraded to 40.41 drivers. No artifacts. I'm currently running@290/570. Try using these drivers, no overclocking and use the default refresh of 60Mhz in the game (just for testing). Also, patch to 1.31

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-JC

 

[Glitchny]

i was running my card overclocked as well and ketp gettings artifacts in bf1942 and then RTCW so i backed it off and now its fine

 

[Citadel535]

Is that what you call messed up objects in the game (like pointy pyramids on land and weird distortions). I am running the card stock maybe it is just too much for the card in my case with cooling?

 

[rudder]

maybe its a voltage problem with your motherboard. After all you said it did the same thing with two different brands of gpus.

 

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Originally posted by: Citadel535
Is that what you call messed up objects in the game (like pointy pyramids on land and weird distortions). I am running the card stock maybe it is just too much for the card in my case with cooling?

I know the 8200 dells don't have the worlds greatest cooling (don't know about your model). Heat very well can be the issue. Open your case and have a fan blow directly on your card. See if this help?

Did you change drivers compared to when it was running okay? If so, revert back to those.

Any other thoughts?
-JC