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SOLVED! Odd graphical glitch in WoW, AoC, and other games..

Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
Has anyone seen this before?

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It's on an Alienware laptop and only shows up when games are played. That bit on the left hand side, the white bars and some strange green ... thing ... that grows and shrinks in size depending on how much action is going on in the screen.

When its just internet surfing or watching movies, no craziness, just in games.

Anyone have any ideas?

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  • Demitri OmniDemitri Omni Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Normally, I'd say you have a dead bar of pixels on your monitor, but if it's only in game, I'd venture a guess it's a DirectX glitch.

    Do a DX Diagnostics (Start > Run... > "dxdiag") and see if it shows up.

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Your video memory is probably damaged.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Is this new? Because if it changes size depending on how much action is going on, it may just be some alienware resource gauge

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Lets see here..

    1) dxdiag.. what should I be looking for?

    2) video memory.. why would it only go wonky in games, and then, only go wonky in some games, Age of Conan windows = crazy green thing, Age of Conan full screen = no green thing.

    3) new? the laptop is sort of new, but its not like something was put on there to randomly tell me about video processing during games, at least not that I know of.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yea it looks like bad video ram.

    WAIT do you have one of those defective mobile Nvidia chips?

    http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/figuring-out-which-nvidia-gpus-are-defective-its-a-lot/

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  • NitsuaNitsua South CarolinaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    No, that is not bad video ram - it is telling you how much of your video card you are using at any one time. It is not a glitch, go into your nVidia panel for your graphics card and you should see a place to turn it off.

    It's just a gauge and you'll notice it is in all games and maybe videos too.

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Nitsua wrote: »
    No, that is not bad video ram - it is telling you how much of your video card you are using at any one time. It is not a glitch, go into your nVidia panel for your graphics card and you should see a place to turn it off.

    It's just a gauge and you'll notice it is in all games and maybe videos too.

    If this is so, do you have any idea at all what setting would control this? I don't see anything in the nVidia panel that would resemble a meter of any sort..

    Is there a way to test video memory for defects?>

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  • CrumbBumCrumbBum Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That is the load meter. Open up your NVIDIA Control Panel and click on the 3D settings then at the top where you see File _ Edit _ 3D Settings _ Help click on 3D settings -> Uncheck show SLI Visual Indicators (or whatever it will be called).

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  • Lord JezoLord Jezo Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wow.

    Thanks guys, that is what it was, the sli load indicator.

    Been trying to figure this one out for a while and now its gone.

    Yay.

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