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DeliciousTacosDeliciousTacos Registered User regular
edited March 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
I've been getting a strange graphics glitch on my PC these past few days.

Sometimes when I change windows, a small square of the previous window will remain in the center of my screen, like this:
glitch1.jpg

It seems to stay like this until I restart.

Also, when I scroll through a window:
glitch2.jpg

This is happening more often than I would like. Thoughts?

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  • FiggyFiggy Fighter of the night man Champion of the sunRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Have you tried updating your video drivers?

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  • DeliciousTacosDeliciousTacos Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yep, they're up to date

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  • kitchkitch Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Make sure the fan on your video card is still working and it's not an overheating issue.

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  • ZyrillusZyrillus Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I would lean towards a driver issue somewhere. (hardware is still a possibility) Since the display is carrying over a pic from previous/hidden windows and not just random pixel glitches.

    Try some of the newer drivers here: http://downloads.guru3d.com/ (or 1 or 2 older ones)

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  • urahonkyurahonky Cynical Old Man Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Perhaps there's a program running in the background that's in it's "stuck" phase? Try checking the Task Manager and closing all unknown programs.

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    urahonky wrote: »
    Perhaps there's a program running in the background that's in it's "stuck" phase? Try checking the Task Manager and closing all unknown programs.

    This was my first thought. I would also take a look at all of your Firefox addons and see if disabling one or all of them makes it go away.

    Edit: After reading more thoroughly, unless it's unrelated to having Firefox running. Still I would do a selective startup by using the Run -> msconfig -> startup tab. You should be able to get a good idea of which of those checked boxes are something you want running on startup and which ones aren't. For weird program names/locations that you don't recognize, google helps.

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  • mechaThormechaThor Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I don't know if this would help, but running Driver Sweeper (http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/) to remove older or conflicting drivers might work? I do agree that its an issue with the GPU on some level though.

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