My gfx card I think

owly-oop

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I was having problems all day with games freezing my pc forcing a restart. It only ever happened with tf2 every-so-often (without any artifacts), and i just kinda shrugged it off. Today it was happening frequently with fallout new vegas with artifacting. I made my fan speed higher so the temperature would go down, since the problem probably was overheating.

It stopped for awhile, but then with fallout new vegas it started artifacting like crazy and froze my pc again. When I restarted it, my pc was at the lowest resolution in 4bit color. For some reason I can't change the resolution, and my pc seems to freeze after 2 minutes of using it.

I guess I'm just posting this from my sister's laptop to let my friends know.

I am also bad with computers and have no money. Yay. I don't know what to do. Can I cry on someone's shoulder?
 
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I have the same problem with Assassin's Creed and Hammer. With artifacts, do you meanthose purple/green squares? I never found a solution to this and I also hope someone knows what it is! Will post an image later.

(I'm running on a nvidia gt 9600 or something)
 

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Jeremy

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Reminds me of that high-contrast mode on old Windows computers.
 

gamemaster1996

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Reminds me of that high-contrast mode on old Windows computers.

What do you mean old windows computers, it's still there :)


If you change it on your graphics card or Control Panel to 32 or 64 bit does it change?
 

lana

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Yes, that usually happens.

Be lucky it didn't explode!
 

owly-oop

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I seem to still get artifacts :(

DoD got some so I closed it. Played f:nv for an hour or two before artifacts forced me to close it. I waited a bit and relaunched it, got artifacts within 5 minutes, forcing me to reboot.

I was monitoring my temperatures. I get 44C when idle, DoD peaked at 57C and f:nv peaked at 53C
 

WastedMeerkat

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Super, try getting more fans on your tower. 44*C is a little high compared to my idle temp of 37*C (normally down to 30*C, but I suppose I'm over due for a dust cleaning). But then again, I have no idea how hot Nvidia cards run.
 
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In the meantime, you can try to open the case and it leave it open while running. Not great but it helps get more fresh air inside.
If it's hot outside where you live, that probably doesn't help... (crapy summer here, so no such problems)

Don't let it overheat too often or it will really die...
 

Steff0o

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Super, try getting more fans on your tower. 44*C is a little high compared to my idle temp of 37*C (normally down to 30*C, but I suppose I'm over due for a dust cleaning). But then again, I have no idea how hot Nvidia cards run.

44C isn't that high, my gfx card has a 65-70C idle temp and it works just fine...
Super:
Have you tried installing newest drivers?