Maxest settings = videocard overheat!

[CyberPitz]

I now officially get random black textures appearing out of nowhere. How fun. Well, I guess I'll turn down some things and call it good...

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

I had that once, random black dots started appearing on my screen, I was like WTF, and they kept getting bigger until they covered the whole screen, and then the cojmputer went black and there was a smell of burning from the CPU.
So yeah, not a particuarily good BF2 day.

 

[jimbo118]

this happened to me all the time back when bf2 was just released, it was a ati problem for me that was fixed with a new driver. But bf2 does rape your graphics card at max particularly over a long period of play.

 

[Gorgon]

its to do with driver, or heating problem.

try to change driver.

or try
to open the case, leave it open.

 

[Costin]

i've found my cooler melted in CPU radiator.....now that a heating problem
the frigging proccesor heated to much the atmosfere in my pc

 

[-Psy-]

Lesson learnt then :O

I've never known a game to do such a thing to your gfx card.

 

[$kelet0r]

happens all the time - it's called artifacting
caused by overheating

 

[xombine]

Yeah try pulling the case off and put a fan on it or something.

 

[Stigmata]

Or if you're up to it, try installing a third-party GPU heatsink. I've no idea how difficult it is to do that, but I can't imagine it's much different from installing a CPU heatsink.

 

[Link]

Usually a case of unplugging the power, removing around 4 screws, cleaning off the old thermal paste, applying new paste, screwing on new cooler, attaching power to fan and putting back in the PC. It sounds harder than it is, and as Stigmata says, very similar to fitting a new CPU HSF

 

[Canadian Gunner]

Ah heating issues. I'm glad my graphics card had a lifetime warrenty. After having numerous problems with artifacts (in BF2 especially), I ended up opening the case and using a house fan to keep everything cool. Then this heatwave hit. My graphics card fried while I was playing Deus Ex :|. So we sent the card off to Illinois or something and about a week (coincidently the same week as the Red Orchestra trial) later, we got a new card. Yey. Plus, it seems to work marginally better, and I haven't had the artifacts yet...

 

[CyberPitz]

I figure I'll just tone down the AA, and ligting....and texture filtering. Granted the game looks good...I like my video card.

Garr, I have the thermometer of my case on my video card, and it's reading ~ 55C just idle. D:

 

[bryanf445]

Yea I get that too in some games. Looks like black lines that come on the screen every so often. I know its not overheating either. Sigh...

 

[CyberPitz]

Yea I get that too in some games. Looks like black lines that come on the screen every so often. I know its not overheating either. Sigh...

Little lines? Giant squares *about the size of one of the warehouses in teh game...* appear when I start to go over them. Sucks when you're walking, and the game just..goes black. That's when the computer restarts, but hey!

 

[lemonfridge]

Or if you're up to it, try installing a third-party GPU heatsink. I've no idea how difficult it is to do that, but I can't imagine it's much different from installing a CPU heatsink.

Its really not hard. I did one a little while back and the trickiest bit was cleaning the card up before fitting the new fan and heat sinks. It ran MUCH quieter and cooler with the new gear fitted.
http://www.lemonfridge.com/ebay/x800/DSC01770.JPG

I recently sold it on ebay

 

[CyberPitz]

I have a feeling it's the fact that the house is 80 degrees, but my room is about 85/90. My room is the hottest room and it sucks. I have a fan running in the direction of the computer, cooling it down a little.

 

[Stigmata]

You should probably invest in some AC before an aftermarket heatsink

My house doesn't have AC, and during the heatwave here (~40 Celsius), my computer would just shut off after about two hours of gaming, and wouldn't turn back on for 30 minutes after that. Granted, I'm running a really terrible AthlonXP 1800+ with the stock heatsink in, but still. My CPU was reaching temperatures over 70 Celsius on IDLE.

Remember, heatsinks do nothing if they're replacing hot air with more hot air

 

[CyberPitz]

You should probably invest in some AC before an aftermarket heatsink

My house doesn't have AC, and during the heatwave here (~40 Celsius), my computer would just shut off after about two hours of gaming, and wouldn't turn back on for 30 minutes after that. Granted, I'm running a really terrible AthlonXP 1800+ with the stock heatsink in, but still. My CPU was reaching temperatures over 70 Celsius on IDLE.

Remember, heatsinks do nothing if they're replacing hot air with more hot air

I have AC, trust me, if we didn't it'd be hotter than 80 degrees in here *105 F out side..

I've got my computer down to ~120F while idle. Better than 160! D: