strange box left drawn on desktop

[cryptonomicon]

Hi,

i've been experiencing a strange box that usually occupies 90% of my desktop
after playing some games, and is accompanied by a folder in the taskbar. this doesn't happen every time i use an application or game, but as far as i can remember it's after half-life which uses openGL.


anyone know what this is or an idea to fix it? if not, then i know it must be specific to the gaming application. maybe bad programming that leaves an area drawn wrong?

here is a link to a screenshot:
http://images.cryptofilms.com/public/mysystem/strangebox.JPG

I have process explorer installed, and i know how to use event viewer too,
but I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. The taskbar folder seems to be part of windows, because it goes away by killing explorer and then restarting explorer.exe).

thx.

 

[bowserjs]

Have you tried updating your Video Card Drivers

 

[dclive]

 

[cryptonomicon]

well.. im using 45.23 which are about two years old at least, because they offer better perf then upgrading from what i have read.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: cryptonomicon
well.. im using 45.23 which are about two years old at least, because they offer better perf then upgrading from what i have read.

...but they're buggy, which is why nVidia's at 71.something (or higher) now. Try the newest drivers. You've got XP, so rolling back to prior versions is dead simple.