Hi.
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~ The problem in 3 images:
~ Need for Speed 1 - Fancy architecture on the building.
~ Need for Speed 2 - A huge red-striped polygon across the top half of the screen
~ 3DMark05 - You'll need to ramp up the brightness to see this. They're definitely not leaves.
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This is my system:
- Celeron 2.66
- 2x512MB DDR400 @ DDR333
- Sparkle Gefroce 6600GT AGP
- 160GB Maxtor harddisk
I've had this system for 5/6 months and never really had any problems with it. About 2 weeks ago (i think), I installed Need for Speed Most Wanted. It ran perfectly for the first week or so. Perfect satisfaction. Unfortunately, after an incident, I started to get "geometry corruption" - misplced vertices, all over the place - in the game. The problem just pops up randomly, sometimes staying for a long time, sometimes lasting only a while.
I'm not sure what the "incident" which preceded this problem was, but it was one of these two:
1) Running MapleStory and Need For Speed simultaneously. This caused the graphics in NFS to go weird so I quit either Maple or NFS. Cant remember which.
2) Playing NFS as usual. Lots of video corruption all of a sudden. Game starts to lag real bad. Then it crashes back to the Windows desktop.
After that I've been having the geometry corruption in NFS and also random (seldom) corrupt graphics in my normal Windows/Linux apps --> certain portions of my screen get covered with colored boxes. In programs like KPDF and web browsers images will become corrupted as described, and stay corrupted even after being scrolled out of the screen and back in. I see the corruption on my screen but it doesn't appear on screengrabs.
I've re-installed the game, re-installed Windows, installed the latest nVidia drivers, and tested using 3DMark2005. The same kind of corruption happens inside 3DMark too. I opened my casing and pointed a stand fan straight at the GPU but the problem still occurs. (Although, based on just tonight and last afternoon's observations, it seems to be less pronounced when it is kept cool. Will need to keep an eye on this.) I also ran memtest86 (for only 2 passes) and it didn't report any errors.
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I suspect that either my video card is overheating or some of the RAM on it is fried...
I found this thread http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1667286&enterthread=y and it suggested that perhaps my power supply is not up to snuff. My PSU is rated as follows:
[*]+3.3V, 17A
[*]+5V, 13A
[*]+12V, 15A
Is this enough power for what I'm running?
Anyone have any idea what could be the cause?
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~ The problem in 3 images:
~ Need for Speed 1 - Fancy architecture on the building.
~ Need for Speed 2 - A huge red-striped polygon across the top half of the screen
~ 3DMark05 - You'll need to ramp up the brightness to see this. They're definitely not leaves.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is my system:
- Celeron 2.66
- 2x512MB DDR400 @ DDR333
- Sparkle Gefroce 6600GT AGP
- 160GB Maxtor harddisk
I've had this system for 5/6 months and never really had any problems with it. About 2 weeks ago (i think), I installed Need for Speed Most Wanted. It ran perfectly for the first week or so. Perfect satisfaction. Unfortunately, after an incident, I started to get "geometry corruption" - misplced vertices, all over the place - in the game. The problem just pops up randomly, sometimes staying for a long time, sometimes lasting only a while.
I'm not sure what the "incident" which preceded this problem was, but it was one of these two:
1) Running MapleStory and Need For Speed simultaneously. This caused the graphics in NFS to go weird so I quit either Maple or NFS. Cant remember which.
2) Playing NFS as usual. Lots of video corruption all of a sudden. Game starts to lag real bad. Then it crashes back to the Windows desktop.
After that I've been having the geometry corruption in NFS and also random (seldom) corrupt graphics in my normal Windows/Linux apps --> certain portions of my screen get covered with colored boxes. In programs like KPDF and web browsers images will become corrupted as described, and stay corrupted even after being scrolled out of the screen and back in. I see the corruption on my screen but it doesn't appear on screengrabs.
I've re-installed the game, re-installed Windows, installed the latest nVidia drivers, and tested using 3DMark2005. The same kind of corruption happens inside 3DMark too. I opened my casing and pointed a stand fan straight at the GPU but the problem still occurs. (Although, based on just tonight and last afternoon's observations, it seems to be less pronounced when it is kept cool. Will need to keep an eye on this.) I also ran memtest86 (for only 2 passes) and it didn't report any errors.
-
I suspect that either my video card is overheating or some of the RAM on it is fried...
I found this thread http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1667286&enterthread=y and it suggested that perhaps my power supply is not up to snuff. My PSU is rated as follows:
[*]+3.3V, 17A
[*]+5V, 13A
[*]+12V, 15A
Is this enough power for what I'm running?
Anyone have any idea what could be the cause?
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