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mattdabbs · 11-08-2007, 10:18 AM

Hi everyone, quick question about a weird problem I'm having.

Recently, when playing some games, especially company of heroes, I've been getting alot of graphical flickering and polygons extending themselves into lines off the screen. It doesn't always happen right away: sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes but sometimes it happens as soon as I start up the game. I thought at first that my graphics card was going bad, so I swapped it out with another one, but it was having the same issues. ATI Tools has the GPU temp idling at the upper 40's C and under load with Company of Heroes, it jumps to around 66C. I thought that was kind of high, but I've been reading online that for my graphics card that 60-65 was a normal temp under load. And in any case, with one game it actually runs all the way up to 80C but its the only game I have no graphical problems with. (Heroes V)

I've swapped out the system memory and the power supply to make sure it wasn't either of those and I still have the problem. Could it possibly be the processor itself overheating? Speedfan is saying that I'm running at around 45C on each core idle and around 65C under load. Or could it be a virus on the system? Probably unlikely, but at this point I'm stumped.

System Specs

Pentium Core Duo 2.4ghz
ATI X1900gt 256mg
2GB RAM

Powersupply
3.3V/+5V/+12V1/+12V2/+5Vsb/-12V
22A/21A/18A/16A/2A/.3A

The other powersupply I tried:
3.3/5/12V1/12V2/-5V/-12V/5Vsb
20A/20A/16A/16A/.8A/.8A/2.0A

The problem didn't start occurring until about two months ago and slowly built up to be worse and worse. The system was running fine before that and I have identical machines that are running fine as well.

Thanx for your help guys.

11-08-2007, 10:18 AM	#1 (permalink)
mattdabbs Registered User Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP Professional SP2	Strange graphical problems in games with no real solution Hi everyone, quick question about a weird problem I'm having. Recently, when playing some games, especially company of heroes, I've been getting alot of graphical flickering and polygons extending themselves into lines off the screen. It doesn't always happen right away: sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes but sometimes it happens as soon as I start up the game. I thought at first that my graphics card was going bad, so I swapped it out with another one, but it was having the same issues. ATI Tools has the GPU temp idling at the upper 40's C and under load with Company of Heroes, it jumps to around 66C. I thought that was kind of high, but I've been reading online that for my graphics card that 60-65 was a normal temp under load. And in any case, with one game it actually runs all the way up to 80C but its the only game I have no graphical problems with. (Heroes V) I've swapped out the system memory and the power supply to make sure it wasn't either of those and I still have the problem. Could it possibly be the processor itself overheating? Speedfan is saying that I'm running at around 45C on each core idle and around 65C under load. Or could it be a virus on the system? Probably unlikely, but at this point I'm stumped. System Specs Pentium Core Duo 2.4ghz ATI X1900gt 256mg 2GB RAM Powersupply 3.3V/+5V/+12V1/+12V2/+5Vsb/-12V 22A/21A/18A/16A/2A/.3A The other powersupply I tried: 3.3/5/12V1/12V2/-5V/-12V/5Vsb 20A/20A/16A/16A/.8A/.8A/2.0A The problem didn't start occurring until about two months ago and slowly built up to be worse and worse. The system was running fine before that and I have identical machines that are running fine as well. Thanx for your help guys.