Graphic card dying (?) (help)

[Mikez]

Hello, I've recently bought keyclone and started tri-boxing, there's not enough words to describe how much I enjoy it, but the last time I've been playing WoW on my 3 accs, the screen has started to mess up. It starts to happend when I enter areas with alot of stuff in it, like towns and cities. I got the graphic lowest on all three wows. Turned of all sound aswell.

See for yourself: [img=http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3457/wierdmb3.th.jpg] (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wierdmb3.jpg)
There is 3 wows running.

Anyone got any clues what's wrong?
I'm using: Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT
Proc: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz

If more info is needed, please tell me and I'll respond ASAP.

[marvein]

Hello, I've recently bought keyclone and started tri-boxing, there's not enough words to describe how much I enjoy it, but the last time I've been playing WoW on my 3 accs, the screen has started to mess up. It starts to happend when I enter areas with alot of stuff in it, like towns and cities. I got the graphic lowest on all three wows. Turned of all sound aswell.

See for yourself: [img=http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3457/wierdmb3.th.jpg] (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wierdmb3.jpg)
There is 3 wows running.

Anyone got any clues what's wrong?
I'm using: Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT
Proc: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+, MMX, 3DNow (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz

If more info is needed, please tell me and I'll respond ASAP.

That might be a safe assumption but try this first. if you are running windows xp go to start>run and type dxdiag and hit enter, it can take a few minutes to run and see if it has any errors. If it does you should reinstall DirectX. If that checks out fine, upgrade that video driver, goto nvidia's website and get the latest driver for the 8xxx series. However, when installing the new one completely remove the old one by going to device manager and selecting the video adapter and choose 'uninstall' you will have to reboot and your graphics will look like shit but its good to start fresh with video drivers. After that just run the setup on the new drivers.

BTW, you dont happen to be Mikez from Kel'Thuzad do you?

[Skuggomann]

Id lower the grapic on the wow's and then chek the Card temperature? or go to the store and clame that its broken and get a new 1? :)

[keyclone]

hi Mikez and welcome to the forums!

how much graphics memory is on the board? remember... when you are using multiple wows, take the amount of memory you have and divide by the number of wows you want to run. ie: 256M running 3 wows... this means each wow only has ~85M each. sounds like enough, but it could be an issue when you get to busy areas.

don't get me wrong, i don't think that would cause that effect... that just looks like a driver or the card is wonky (could be the memory on the board having issues as well)

good luck

[Mikez]

Thanks for the answers, I'll try to re-install my drivers for the graphic card, and when I tried to do the dxdiag, it show no errors. And my graphic card has 512 MB.


And no, I'm not that Mikez :)

[marvein]

Thanks for the answers, I'll try to re-install my drivers for the graphic card, and when I tried to do the dxdiag, it show no errors. And my graphic card has 512 MB.


And no, I'm not that Mikez :)

so is this you or what? :)

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kel%27Thuzad&n=Mikez inquiring minds want to know lol

*edit* oh, darn. would have had to come gank your team with mine :P

[xsv420]

Hey.. Im sort of having the same problem, just not as intense. When I'm running 2 WoW's on this PC and have both windows open at the same time, it will become very glitchy.. textures will glitch out, etc. If I have it on too long then my computer will straight up freeze. Not really sure whats goin on but I'll try whiping out my old driver's and then reinstall them.
Comp specs: Intel Quadcore; 2Gigs DDR3; ATI 3870HD;
Edit: Looks like im still having the same problem after reinstalling the drivers :( Any ideas?
Also, after using maximizer my FPS has been capped at 100. How do I uncap it?
Thanks

[marvein]

Hey.. Im sort of having the same problem, just not as intense. When I'm running 2 WoW's on this PC and have both windows open at the same time, it will become very glitchy.. textures will glitch out, etc. If I have it on too long then my computer will straight up freeze. Not really sure whats goin on but I'll try whiping out my old driver's and then reinstall them.
Comp specs: Intel Quadcore; 2Gigs DDR3; ATI 3870HD;
Edit: Looks like im still having the same problem after reinstalling the drivers :( Any ideas?
Also, after using maximizer my FPS has been capped at 100. How do I uncap it?
Thanks

why would you need more than 100fps in wow? the human eye cant recognize more than like 45 anyways.

Have you checked the temperature on your video card? all new video cards should have a control panel applet that has this kind of info. If it runs really hot you may be stressing it or there is something wrong with its cooling.

[xsv420]

Well for bragging rights of course! :lol:
Video card is running nice and cool at a load temp of 50c

[xsv420]

I just upgraded from XP -> Vista. It totally fixed my problem :)