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PC Crashes/Glitches, only in games
Glaeal
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So I built myself a new PC around Christmas, and I've been having problems with it since day one. My PC knowledge is limited, so some of my assumptions may be wrong. Sorry.
First, specs:
Q6600 Processor
4 gb ram
Asus P5n-e sli motherboard
Audigy SE soundcard
Two video card setups: EVGA 8800 GTS or 8800GT-OC x2 (SLI)
Now, the first set up was with the 8800 GTS. I can leave the PC running for DAYS with no problems, provided I never enter a fullscreen game. Whenever I enter a full-screen game, the video would freeze and the sound would hang until I rebooted, no BSOD. Thinking that the problem was with the video card, last night I bought two BFG 8800GT video cards and put them in SLI. With the new video cards the video eventually froze, but the sound kept going until I got a BSOD. The BSOD flashed by and the PC reset too quickly for me to read it.
Tonight, I was playing LOTRO, and the texture of one of my armor pieces somehow took up the whole screen, semi-transparent. I was able to access the menu and exit the game before a crash. When I logged back in, I got this at the log in screen:
I can open any other game, Oblivion for example, and the textures are slightly distorted during the menus, and then the whole game goes crazy when I load it. I noticed that I got a very slow strobe effect with the animations, like 20 FPS were the actual animation from my movement, with another 40 FPS or so of garbage like the stuff above. And that's another weird thing, the graphical errors between the two games are completely different.
The thing is, until I enter a full-screen game I have no problems. Right now I can browse the web, watch videos fullscreen, or anything else without any problems. But as soon as I go back into a game I get the same thing.
WTF? Help?!
First, specs:
Q6600 Processor
4 gb ram
Asus P5n-e sli motherboard
Audigy SE soundcard
Two video card setups: EVGA 8800 GTS or 8800GT-OC x2 (SLI)
Now, the first set up was with the 8800 GTS. I can leave the PC running for DAYS with no problems, provided I never enter a fullscreen game. Whenever I enter a full-screen game, the video would freeze and the sound would hang until I rebooted, no BSOD. Thinking that the problem was with the video card, last night I bought two BFG 8800GT video cards and put them in SLI. With the new video cards the video eventually froze, but the sound kept going until I got a BSOD. The BSOD flashed by and the PC reset too quickly for me to read it.
Tonight, I was playing LOTRO, and the texture of one of my armor pieces somehow took up the whole screen, semi-transparent. I was able to access the menu and exit the game before a crash. When I logged back in, I got this at the log in screen:
I can open any other game, Oblivion for example, and the textures are slightly distorted during the menus, and then the whole game goes crazy when I load it. I noticed that I got a very slow strobe effect with the animations, like 20 FPS were the actual animation from my movement, with another 40 FPS or so of garbage like the stuff above. And that's another weird thing, the graphical errors between the two games are completely different.
The thing is, until I enter a full-screen game I have no problems. Right now I can browse the web, watch videos fullscreen, or anything else without any problems. But as soon as I go back into a game I get the same thing.
WTF? Help?!
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Yes I do. I also reverted to an older version of the drivers with the same problem.
Overheating what? Video card? Wouldn't I have gotten some artifacting or something before it crashed?
And wouldn't it still affect Windows?
Your video card operates at like 2% load when it's not rendering something in 3D. It's when you start up a game that it gets put to work, and that's when you'll get issues if there's something wrong with the cooling on the card.
Also, it isn't just the video card apparently. After about five minutes of LOTRO the sound card cut out. Five minutes later the video problems started.