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Meeffas · 07-21-2007, 12:01 AM

Three years ago after being stationed in Japan I got the bright idea to save a few bucks and build my own rig. I had very few problems with the building proccess (a wire here and there but ultimately worked through) and installing most of the software was a breeze. I built the machine to be a gaming system with some pretty decent gear for the time.

The trouble started about 3-6 months after I got it going all of a sudden I started to get some MAJOR graphics anomolies. While gaming after just a few minutes I will have buildings, NPCs, PCs, sometimes the floor all vanish on me and I may also get some very nasty Poly problems as if a single point is causing hundreds of beams of color to scatter off it. The poly issues would stop if I turned away from that point, but return if I looked back. The only game to date that has been able to fix this issue was Vanguard: SoH with the /flush command. This fix would clear your gpu and your memory (the game has horendous memory leak).

System:

Windows XP Home
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
2.20 GHz 2.00 GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
WINFAST 755FXK8AA mobo

I have switched monitors durning all of this and that wasn't the issue. I have switched video cards and that didn't seem to fix it (though being a graphics issue I still came here). I don't have a spare CPU or Motherboard and never tried RAM since my experience with bad ram is 0 activity not graphics errors.

Thank you for any suggestions on this issue.

07-21-2007, 12:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Meeffas Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 40 OS: XP	Is this a Video Card issue? Three years ago after being stationed in Japan I got the bright idea to save a few bucks and build my own rig. I had very few problems with the building proccess (a wire here and there but ultimately worked through) and installing most of the software was a breeze. I built the machine to be a gaming system with some pretty decent gear for the time. The trouble started about 3-6 months after I got it going all of a sudden I started to get some MAJOR graphics anomolies. While gaming after just a few minutes I will have buildings, NPCs, PCs, sometimes the floor all vanish on me and I may also get some very nasty Poly problems as if a single point is causing hundreds of beams of color to scatter off it. The poly issues would stop if I turned away from that point, but return if I looked back. The only game to date that has been able to fix this issue was Vanguard: SoH with the /flush command. This fix would clear your gpu and your memory (the game has horendous memory leak). System: Windows XP Home AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.20 GHz 2.00 GB RAM NVidia GeForce 6800 GT WINFAST 755FXK8AA mobo I have switched monitors durning all of this and that wasn't the issue. I have switched video cards and that didn't seem to fix it (though being a graphics issue I still came here). I don't have a spare CPU or Motherboard and never tried RAM since my experience with bad ram is 0 activity not graphics errors. Thank you for any suggestions on this issue.