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Re: Strange raster with ATI radeon 9000 pro (sapphire)?

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From: Steve Molander
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

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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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From: "Steve Molander" <steve@stevemolander.com>
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Subject: Re: Strange raster with ATI radeon 9000 pro (sapphire)?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:35:35 -0600
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