Nasty graphics issue

I'm experiencing a graphics issue that appears to be really spastic flashing triangular shapes that are often "originated" from certain shapes on-screen, such as a character's cloak, and stretched way across the screen, blinking and just being very annoying in general. This didn't always happen. I'm not very tech-savvy and I'm not sure what the issue is, though it sounds like a video card, I have no idea how to check for that. Any ideas?

Here are some specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E6850 @ 3.00 GHz (2 CPUs)
2048 MB RAM

Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT
DAC Type: Integrated RAMDAC
Approx total mem: 1024 MB

Drivers:
Main: nv4_disp.dll
version: 6.14.0011.7519 (English)
Mini VDD: nv4_mini.sys
DDI Version: 9 (or higher)

Do you have a spare graphics card you can throw in your computer?

Note to self: Get spare PCI-E card!

Most likely a heating issue, or your card is toasted. Try another card like Sajuuk suggest,or even try that card in a diff computer an note what happens (or doesn't)

Lol, I am currently more broke than I've ever been before and trying another card isn't an option right now. Do you foresee that as the only possible solution?

for starters just try opening your case, and clean out the dust from your gpu ventilator. Might want to use 'Gpu-Z' to monitor the temperatures.

As sais, looks like a heathing issue or a broken card

Man, that's strange/sucks. The computer is less than 6 months old :( I opened it up and inside there's very little dust anywhere - I cleaned anything that was there. I can't imagine this is a result of dual-boxing (especially since I have graphics settings on low), though it happened a few weeks after I started playing two characters. Is it possible to blow a card from the added stress of two instances and the occasional FRAPS?

Does this happen only when you have 2 or more instances of WoW open? In other words, only open 1 WoW window and see if you get the tearing/popping.

If that happens it's most likely your config.wtf file. Deleting it and letting the game recreate it has fixed many people's problems.

Video artifacts running 2 copies of WoW

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Originally Posted by Heenan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=187951#post18 7951]Does this happen only when you have 2 or more instances of WoW open? In other words, only open 1 WoW window and see if you get the tearing/popping.

If that happens it's most likely your config.wtf file. Deleting it and letting the game recreate it has fixed many people's problems.

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Yeah, it only happens when two instances are up. I just tried deleting the config file, but it didn't work.

Also, here's some new information: if one of the windows is in windowed mode, and the other is not, I don't get the artifacts. However this is far from ideal for obvious reasons, at least while leveling.

Also, I did something, I don't know what, and I am now unable to tab between certain windows when WoW is open, most notably WoW windows.. this is one thing after another.. :whistling:

Even newer developments:

Fixed the tabbing issue by rebooting. I just tried having both instances run in windowed mode but with only ONE maximized; if I minimize the un-max'd instance onto the taskbar, the other window is artifact-free; however, if I pull up the non-maximized windowed-mode instance and have it running on top of the maximized instance, that instance will then have the artifacts if it is on top of the other window.

Gibberish-free version:

If a window is on top with a non-minimized (i.e.: NOT minimized onto the taskbar) instance running directly behind it, it get tearing and artifacts.

Well, this isn't working out as well as I had hoped. On my master's screen, I'm getting excessive video lag of my slave; for example, if I move forward and stop, the slave will bounce oddly around as it makes the way to the master, even appearing to run through the master before coming to a halt behind it; this only happens if the slave instance is minimized to the taskbar. However, if it's maximized and directly behind the master's instance window, I get the artifacts and tearing. So I can either choose an extremely jerky and difficult to anticipate slave image, or the artifacts and tears. Computers are fucking peachy, really.

The weird slave lag when minimized isn't strange. I got that exact same thing when tried to 5 box on one system and maximize my desktop space.

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Originally Posted by 'Starbuck_Jones',index.php?page=Thread&postID=1880 65#post188065

The weird slave lag when minimized isn't strange. I got that exact same thing when tried to 5 box on one system and maximize my desktop space.

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Yeah, I'm just frustrated is all. I think I just have a lemon video card.

don't overlook only having 2 gigs of RAM. All together your rig is iffy to dual box.

I had a problem with my grafics blinking when I installed my Nvidia Geforce 7950 gx2 into my new rig. I fixed it by reducing the shadows in wow under the grafic settings.

My problem is the driver I use. Vista 64 bit dosen't support the latest driver for my grafic card, so I had to revert to an older version.

NEVER CONSIDER BUYING GEFORCE 7950 GX2 - it is the suxor!

I got the same irratic 'triangles' problem on my system only when i took all my 5 chars to Dalaran. Seems to be linked to whenever a massive number of players are rendered on all the screens at once.

My solution was to not take all my chars to Dalaran ;o)

Ive got a Nvidia 280 by the way.

I also vote for heat being the issue. I just skimmed the posts, so if you've already fixed it, I'll accept being called an idiot.

another ditto for overheating. Or unstable processor core - mostly caused by/from overheating anyway