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Article #26743Re: Strange raster with ATI radeon 9000 pro (sapphire)?
From: Steve Molander
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:35
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:35
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Interesting that you bring up the cooling issue ... was playing User Map Fight for Baghdad and in the midst of the game I received a "Serious Problem" error from my computer ... referenced that a component may be overheating or failing!!! Windows shut everything down and took me back to my desktop. I manually shut down and all worked fine again when I started up the next day. Interesting ... wondered if it had to do with an overworked graphics card ... Running XP PIII 1.7Ghz 512 M Ram nVidia Gforce -- -- Steve M. "HeXetic" <hexemail@hottic.com> wrote in message news:RRFrb.1991$fB3.226519@news20.bellglobal.com... > Maybe overheating problems causing graphics corruption? There seems to be a lot > of action going on in these shots, and Generals does tax the cooling system. If > you can find a situation where you can reproduce the problem repeatedly (e.g. > "it always does this 20 minutes into this replay") then try using super cooling > on your computer (take off the side pannel and stick a big housefan in front) to > see if overheating is the problem. > > This is obvious but also do try updating Generals and your various drivers > (graphics card, AGP/chipset, etc.) > > > -- > - Tim G. > > "bad_knee" <bl8n8r@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:e817ca4d.0311091132.3c737678@posting.google.com > > Hello, > > I've been getting some really weird video output while > > playing generals. I dont' know how to describe it. > > there are screenshots here: > > > > <a > > > href=http://www.linuxlots.com/~code_zmith/tech/>http://www.linuxlots.com/~co de_z > mith/tech/</a> > > > > This seems to happen randomly. All of a sudden, the screen > > just gets these "shards" of raster blasting all over > > the place. I can still play the game, but the constant flashing > > on the screen nearly gives me epileptic fits. > > > > After this happens, I must reboot to get rid of this effect. > > Simply restarting generals does not fix it. > > > > Does anyone know what is going on here? > > Thanks >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!pd7cy1no!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Steve Molander" <steve@stevemolander.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.command.and.conquer Subject: Re: Strange raster with ATI radeon 9000 pro (sapphire)? Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:35:35 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <vqv1h0mc49ro6d@corp.supernews.com> References: <e817ca4d.0311091132.3c737678@posting.google.com> <RRFrb.1991$fB3.226519@news20.bellglobal.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit