My friends and I have been playing COD4 online for the last few weeks.
We decided to do another 3hr session today. When I went to join my friends HLSW server, the game loaded fine and then within a minute or two everything became pixelated, etc. and my computer froze up. Fine. I’ll reboot and be done with it.
Not so much.
After rebooting, the fricken PC still had pixelation issues (in windows) and if I right-clicked it would actually display a picture of the map I was just on instead of the menu (weird). Windows is unusable. It did this without even me loading the game. It somehow stored this in memory (very weird to me as I had completely powered the machine off).
So I re-installed the drivers. Still crappy. The desktop still pixelated and froze up.
Went into safe mode and re-installed the drivers. Windows works fine now. But if I launch the game, it still gets all pixelated and crap.
So then I decided to put the video card itself into another PCI-X slot and same thing. Windows is fine now, but when I try to play the game, it pixelates and freezes up.
Is my card toast? In 2 months, it will be 2yrs old. I’m planning on taking it to my brothers and throwing it into his case and see what’s up but I was wondering if you guys had any ideas.
I ran ‘sfc /scannow’ (Windows System File Checker) just to be safe that no DLL’s or SYS files were f’ed up.
DDR3 1600. 4GB worth (XP only detects 3.5GB though).
Well I went to bed…and just tried playing (PC has been on a total of 3 minutes) and it did the same thing. It only does this crap in game now, not windows anymore.
Here is the SpeedFan results:
I’m guessing that little fire symbol isn’t good? Lol.
The Card fan is spinning, all of my other fans are spinning.
With COD: Modern Warfare 2 coming out soon, and a bunch of other games like Splinter Cell: Conviction…I may just upgrade.
Any cards you guys recommend? I only use NVidia chipset cards, so no ATI’s please. $350 is probably the max that I would spend but if you know of a really good card for less, let me know.
I re-installed XP SP3 like 3 weeks ago so I don’t think it’s windows. My other card (the spare that I have from an old machine) is working fine in the game (although I have the settings turned down so it can actually run lol).
Ilya, if you haven’t ordered one, I have an Nvidia N285GTX I bought a couple months ago I may be getting rid of soon in favor of a 295.
"14-127-403 VGA MSI N285GTX-T2D1G-OC GTX285 RTL
1
$329.99"
That’s the info off of my invoice. I’ll talk to AMD IS BEST about it and get back to you, if interested.
Turns out my card is still under warranty until November 2009 (parts and labor) and then November 2010 (just parts). My card was made in Jan. 07 so I fall into the November 2010 category so I gotta pay something.
I’m getting this bad boy fixed. $65 or whatever it’s going to cost me is better than $200+ for a new card. This card, to me, ran everything just fine. I didn’t notice any performance issues up until this happened.
i just found out the hard way to not associate myself with pc know how because it always seems to be more stress than its worth at the end 