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Texture Problems!
I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that have
good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to be able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x) with absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have notice quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying. There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as ever. I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just Vice City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with the newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones (41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for Vice City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always deleted the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver Cleaner to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one to try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty sure I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now trying to solve this problem. Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz 512 DDR Ram 333 AT7-MAX2 motherboard 120GB SATA Cache 8m Geforce 4 ti4200 8x Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, _____ Gaffer |
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Gaffer wrote:
Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. Overheating graphics card? Is it full of dust bunnies or the fan not working? Or try and reseat the card it may be walking out of the slot, you could also clean the contacts with a pencil eraser and a little bit of lint free cloth with non oil based cleaning fluid ( isopropyl ? ) -- Mark Iligitimi Non Carborundum! Twixt hill and high water, N.Wales, UK |
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"baskitcaise" wrote in message ... Gaffer wrote: Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. Overheating graphics card? Is it full of dust bunnies or the fan not working? Or try and reseat the card it may be walking out of the slot, you could also clean the contacts with a pencil eraser and a little bit of lint free cloth with non oil based cleaning fluid ( isopropyl ? ) Sorry for asking, but what are the contacts - what do they look like? The fan is working and I just cleaned it too! _____ Gaffer |
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"Gaffer" wrote in message ... I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that have good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to be able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x) with absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have notice quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying. There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as ever. I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just Vice City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with the newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones (41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for Vice City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always deleted the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver Cleaner to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one to try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty sure I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now trying to solve this problem. Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz 512 DDR Ram 333 AT7-MAX2 motherboard 120GB SATA Cache 8m Geforce 4 ti4200 8x One more thing. My bios started acting rather strangely a while ago (changin g things unexpected) and was wondering if there is something in there that could be affecting my graphics card's performance? _____ Gaffer |
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Gaffer wrote:
"Gaffer" wrote in message ... I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that have good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to be able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x) with absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have notice quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying. There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as ever. I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just Vice City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with the newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones (41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for Vice City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always deleted the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver Cleaner to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one to try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty sure I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now trying to solve this problem. Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz 512 DDR Ram 333 AT7-MAX2 motherboard 120GB SATA Cache 8m Geforce 4 ti4200 8x One more thing. My bios started acting rather strangely a while ago (changin g things unexpected) and was wondering if there is something in there that could be affecting my graphics card's performance? _____ Gaffer Whoa, there, gaffer! your BIOS shouldn't just change it settings. This can be indicative of serious problems. Have you checked for mysterious processes (virii) ? You could also be getting intermittent hardware failures that cause the BIOS to reallocate IRQs etc. Is your mobo battery still functioning? You could be coming up to default settings everytime you cold boot. The restart issue varies with the state of the MS security patches. I've had it come and go depending on various updates on win2Kpro As for texture, if overheating is not it, your card memory could have issues. have you overclocked the card or system? I am not familiar with your mobo, but on mine, if I am not careful, raising the FSB also raises the PCI clock (ie synchronous timing) which raises the SDRAM and AGP clocks. If the AGP is cranked up to high, you'll see video problems. And here's one most poeple overlook: How's your monitor (and/or cable) it too is reponsible for graphics quality. |
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Gaffer wrote:
One more thing. My bios started acting rather strangely a while ago (changin g things unexpected) and was wondering if there is something in there that could be affecting my graphics card's performance? _____ Gaffer Could be your bios battery on the way out if it is changing things but I would have expected that to happen on a cold boot not a warm boot. To check the cards contacts just pull the card out and clean the copper bits that go into the motherboard. Also make sure everything is seated down nice and secure, I have seen older bios chips work there way loose and just need pressing down ( due to the expansion and contraction with the different heat temps if the machine is being switched on/off ). Or it could just be dodgy ram on the card......or anywhere.... if it is showing this sort of fault on a regular basis then I would let someone with test gear have a look, it does sound a bit like a hardware fault to me. -- Mark Iligitimi Non Carborundum! Twixt hill and high water, N.Wales, UK |
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Could be a case PSU going bad - Could even be the mobo.
what is your PSU ? Needs to be a decent 300w like an Antec or a 400w if its a cheapy generic to run that hardware. Check the capacitors on the mobo - are any of them domed ? They're the green cylindrical towers sticking up from the mobo about 2cm tall. They should have flat ends but if they're bulging then that's bad. "Gaffer" wrote in message news:5xjgc.1023$tq5.794@newsfe1-win... "Gaffer" wrote in message ... I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that have good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to be able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x) with absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have notice quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying. There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as ever. I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just Vice City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with the newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones (41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for Vice City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always deleted the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver Cleaner to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one to try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty sure I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now trying to solve this problem. Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz 512 DDR Ram 333 AT7-MAX2 motherboard 120GB SATA Cache 8m Geforce 4 ti4200 8x One more thing. My bios started acting rather strangely a while ago (changin g things unexpected) and was wondering if there is something in there that could be affecting my graphics card's performance? _____ Gaffer |
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"Gaffer" wrote in message ... I've recently started getting texture problems with games (ones that have good graphics and are more demanding) and I have no idea why. I used to be able to play "GTA Vice City" with my graphics card (Geforce4 ti4200 8x) with absolutely no problems with texture or anything else. But now I have notice quite a lot of texture problems in the game which make it very annoying. There is no problem with the speed of games at all, it runs as fast as ever. I have noticed these texture problems with other games too, not just Vice City. I have noticed that the texture problems are somewhat worse with the newer drivers (53.04 & 56.64) and not as bad with some of the older ones (41.09 & 44.03) and I have now tried around six different drivers for Vice City but still I get the problems. When I tried each driver I always deleted the previous from my PC using "add/remove programs" and used Driver Cleaner to get rid of any other files to do with Nvidia and install the next one to try. For the life of me I cannot remember what driver I was using (to previously play Vice City) before I got these problems but I'm pretty sure I've tried it because I have experimented with a good few of them now trying to solve this problem. Something else I've noticed, I'm not sure if it's related, but if I restart my PC (Start/Shut down/Restart/) then sometimes my PC does come back on. The PC stays ON but my monitor goes off and to get it started I need to press the reset button on my computer to get it to load up my OS. Is this because my PC isn't picking up my graphics card? This never happens if I just switch on my computer when it's off. System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 2700mhz 512 DDR Ram 333 AT7-MAX2 motherboard 120GB SATA Cache 8m Geforce 4 ti4200 8x Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, _____ Gaffer How do I set the speed of my AGP slot with Windows 98? Is it in the bios somewhere? _____ Gaffer |
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Whoa, there, gaffer! your BIOS shouldn't just change it settings. This
can be indicative of serious problems. Have you checked for mysterious processes (virii) "What's the Plural of `Virus'? The plural of virus is neither viri nor virii, nor even vira nor virora. It is quite simply viruses, irrespective of context." http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cac...hl=en&ie=UTF-8 |
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Phil wrote:
Whoa, there, gaffer! your BIOS shouldn't just change it settings. This can be indicative of serious problems. Have you checked for mysterious processes (virii) "What's the Plural of `Virus'? The plural of virus is neither viri nor virii, nor even vira nor virora. It is quite simply viruses, irrespective of context." http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cac...hl=en&ie=UTF-8 1. Who asked you? Please stay on topic or shut up idf you have nothing useful to contribute. 2. 'virii' is a humorous colloquialism in general use for decades to cover a wide variety of rogue software. |
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