PC / Video Issues

[monty797]

Hey all,

New user to the forum, I'm hoping you can help me out.

I have built up a new PC and everything runs perfectly. I can watch video's, run programs, have no issues at all. Except when I run Warhammer Online and Age of Conan.

When I run the game, the intro video is great, the in game videos are great, no issues on log in, no issue on character select. Everything here runs fantastic.

When I get ingame issues start to happen, my screen will blink when characters run by, characters will get drawn out like you are looking at your reflection in a spoon, random parts of the bodies will just drag away into long spikes, it happens with tree's and buildings as well. I can't replicate the issue anywhere else though.

Here are my PC specs, I'm hoping you can help these odd video issues.

Window's Vista Home Premium 64 Bit with SP1
Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3.0Ghz
4 GB Corsair 6400 ram
ASUS P5Q MB
EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800GT Vid Card
Western Digi Cavier SE16 640GB HD
Basic Sony DVD Burner
Antec Case with 500W EarthWatts PSU

I can't figure it out, I've tried removing my vid card and reinstalling drivers, updating to the newest drivers. It is almost like the card is artifacting. I am going to reinstall the games (though I do not think that'll help) and I am going to try drivers from Xtreme-G as I've heard some of the Nvidia drivers just do not work well in some games.

Any other ideas / comments?

Looking for some options if you can help me out.

Thanks!

 

[TheKub]

I would recommend checking out the forums on for Warhammer. Sounds directly related to the game. Im assuming that you have never seen this behavior in any other games.

 

[monty797]

It actually happens in just about every game that I have now tried it on. Age of Connan included.

 

[TheKub]

Ah. How about reinstalling DirectX (or updating), or trying an older version of the drivers. If the same things happen you may just have a bad card. Ideally you would install this card into another machine and see what happens.

 

[monty797]

Yeah I've installed DX 9.0L and reinstalled 10, happens on both. Also reloaded 3 different set of drivers, same issue on each. At this point I'm thinking bad card. I do not have another PC that has PCI Express to try it on here. I think I'll just end up RMA'ing the card. Thanks for your help though!

 

[daveybrat]

Sounds like the video card is defective to me.