Shader? Driver? Direct X11? Over heating ? HELP!!

[Promayco]

Hello,

I am having a very hard time with my computer, there is something wrong with it but i have not been able to pin point what it is.

All of my games have weird shapes such as bars or lines coming from the characters and such.

I have updated every thing from Direct X 11 to Graphics Drivers and nothing seems to fix this problem.

Below is the link of the Screenshot taken..

Any comment or suggestions would be of great help thank you.

 

[Gordon Freemen]

I think your GPU is failing you need to monitor your temps to see if your card is to hot that could be the reason you are seeing the artifacts on the screen and your card could be permanently failing.

 

[Jaydip]

Can you please provide the specs of your system?

 

[Promayco]

Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Duo
4Gb RAM
Gforce 9700 Gt 512

Cheers.

 

[Arkadrel]

People usually call those "artifacts" or glitches, and thats usually a sign of your GPU being unstable.

The solution is to make sure your GPU is not getting too hot.
Take out the card, clean of the cooling solution so its free of dust.
Make sure the power cord(s) are correctly inserted.

Then go look at what clocks your card is running, try lowering them a few mhz on both ram/core, until your not experianceing those artifacts anymore.

Another thing to try is giveing the card more voltage.

Also the "oddball" in the room, it could be driver/game code conflict with hardware issue.
Does it act this way in other games too?

 

[Promayco]

People usually call those "artifacts" or glitches, and thats usually a sign of your GPU being unstable.

The solution is to make sure your GPU is not getting too hot.
Take out the card, clean of the cooling solution so its free of dust.
Make sure the power cord(s) are correctly inserted.

Then go look at what clocks your card is running, try lowering them a few mhz on both ram/core, until your not experianceing those artifacts anymore.

Another thing to try is giveing the card more voltage.

Also the "oddball" in the room, it could be driver/game code conflict with hardware issue.
Does it act this way in other games too?

Yes this is in all games, this started when I installed an old game called Battle Field 2142, I am not sure if it installed something incompatible with my current system

 

[Jaydip]

Was there ever a 9700Gt?Anyway aside from Ark's suggestions uninstall and reinstall the latest video driver.

 

[Promayco]

Was there ever a 9700Gt?Anyway aside from Ark's suggestions uninstall and reinstall the latest video driver.

Thnx Jay but already reinstalled the latest driver from Nvidia :\

 

[Arkadrel]

@Promayco

Then its the hardware, nvidia cards.... like the Geforce 9700, had a habbit of dieing or degradeing easily.
IF lowering clocks + giveing it more power doesnt work, you can try and "bake" the card, which sometimes does the trick (might be beyound you though, it can be risky if your not doing it right).

or option B)

buy a new card.

*edit:

The 9700 only used for Mobil right? So that means you on a laptop. Your just f***ed then if you cant fix it by downclocking.....

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Try putting a fan directly under it, there should be air slots of some kind on the bottom.

Shoot some cool air up in there and start playing, it could be over-heating.

In which case I'd recommend taking it apart and cleaning the fan/hs as well as replacing the TIM on the cpu and gpu.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

These are rendering artefacts which are incorrect calculations by the video card, specifically it's placing a vertex (point of a polygon) incorrectly, far away from the character causing the polygons to stretch out abnormally.

These particular types of rendering artefacts tend to be caused by issues with the GPU, and so it's likely the GPU is overheating, that is likely to be caused by a failure in the cooling system somehow, if it's an old card it could just be dust build up in the heatsink causing bad airflow and higher temps.

It would be helpful if you installed a software monitor like MSIs Afterburner and graphed your temperatures during gameplay and reported back on the peak temps, we can quickly tell you if the GPU is too hot.