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eedmond
May 3rd, 2003, 04:12 AM
I have a Geforce 3 TI-200 by MSI. Asus A7V333-X MB, 2.4G AMD Athlon, 1 Gig Ram, Win XP. All drivers/bios/patches/etc... are the latest.

I just bought Asheron's Call 2 and Shadowbane. In both games I noticed that the video looks like very poor quality video film. You know with all the flecks and stuff on the film? Like watching a 1960's movie. I don't know why. None of my other games do it. I play Half-Life, RCT, RCT2, Zoo Tycoon, NOLF, EQ, AC1, Etc...

Anybody have any ideas what could be causing these flecks in the video? How the game is designed?

Thanks,
Eric
Radical Dreamer
May 3rd, 2003, 03:28 PM
This is likely due to a componant that is overheating, usually memory, either on the main board or the video memory
eedmond
May 3rd, 2003, 07:28 PM
But why would it only overheat on certain games? I have a fan slot fan back there that sits right next to the video card that pulls the hot air away and out the back. Could be my mainboard memory, but the air flow inside my case should be fine, I use all rounded cables. I have a side case fan and a back case fan and a Volcano 9 fan on my CPU. Perhaps I will look into another back panel case fan.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Eric
MacGyver
May 3rd, 2003, 10:40 PM
The problems you're having are called artifacts.
eedmond
May 4th, 2003, 03:10 AM
I figured it out. I forgot that I overclocked my video card. Soon as I dropped the clock rate to default everything cleaned up.

Thanks,
Eric
Radical Dreamer
May 4th, 2003, 06:33 PM
Originally posted by eedmond
I figured it out. I forgot that I overclocked my video card. Soon as I dropped the clock rate to default everything cleaned up.

Thanks,
Eric

That will do it everytime :D

Some cards can handle it, some cant