On November 23 2010 02:59 baneling wrote: A friend of mine said this started happening to him when he updated his video card drivers, here's a youtube of it in action, (not my friends just some random dude)
My god what a party. OP I hope it's not your graphics card . Curious, but what's your mean temperature on the gpu while running SC2? Another sign of the graphics card going is the temperature being way too high (given what is usually sufficient cooling).
This has to be the coolest graphically buggy thing I have ever seen. But yeah, it almost always the temperature of your GPU that causes these sorts of problems.
I already installed the latest drivers for my graphics card and directx. I have played on low and medium while turning reflections off and the scvs are still shooting laser beams. Was considering uninstalling and reinstalling the game perhaps?
It is possible that the card is getting fried as I use this computer to multitable Poker tournaments while running a poker tracking software in the background. All my other games run fine though as far as I can tell.
Thanks.
edit: I guess I should add that I run two 27 inch monitors as well...hmm...maybe it's time for a graphic card upgrade? It would just seem that it should handle it fine on lower settings.
rofl this explains the range that scv got in the patch to stop working skating.
Hey there, my first question is if you had this problem from the start or did it just happen now? When it is a new problem, then what did you do before it? Update your graphic driver? I had a similar problem in another game a while ago and my graphic card was broken.
But before you buy a new one, you should definitely rollback your drivers. First of all, delete the old ones with a tool to get sure theres nothing left, there are some free ones, just google it. ^^ And then reinstall older, not the newest, graphic drivers from nvidia.com/ati.com.
On topic, i had a friend who had the exact same problem. I believe he fixed it eventually, will see if he is still on my friends list and ask him how he fixed it.
On November 23 2010 02:59 baneling wrote: A friend of mine said this started happening to him when he updated his video card drivers, here's a youtube of it in action, (not my friends just some random dude)
On November 23 2010 02:59 baneling wrote: A friend of mine said this started happening to him when he updated his video card drivers, here's a youtube of it in action, (not my friends just some random dude)
87 degrees celsius is really really hot there may be something wrong there but I dont do hardware so I couldn't tell you exactly what is wrong. AFAIK the load temp on a graphics card should not approach 90 degrees as they can fail at that point and 80 degrees is a dangerous level as well.
87 Celsius is higher than ideal, but some graphics cards do reach those kinds of temperatures in normal operation. Most desktop graphics cards are nominally supposed to be able to run hotter than that, up to maybe something like 105 Celsius.
As an idea, see the temperature graph here. Their HD 4850 reached 88 Celsius at full load and 86 Celsius while playing Crysis, and some other cards were hotter than that.
That said, there's no harm in checking the GPU fan and heatsink for dust.
Anyhow, streaky lights like you see are usually just symptoms of dying hardware, like people have been saying. Usually if you lower graphics settings, you will stress the card less. Symptoms may disappear this way, and you might extend the life of the card a little longer. If you want a real fix, you can buy a new GPU.
imagine the lasers beams would deal damage :D I think its a problem with your driver, I had something similar during the beta. (selection circles werent circles, they were lines (top and bottom of the unit) and if I had more like 10 units selceted I just saw lines).
87 C is probably a little too hot for your card to comfortably live a normal lifespan, but it's absolutely not an artifacting temperature unless your memory chips are getting hotter than that.
A friend of mine said this started happening to him when he updated his video card drivers
In this case it is almost certainly a driver issue and has nothing to do with your hardware. From the symptoms in the video I would say this anyway.
On November 23 2010 06:31 Myrmidon wrote: 87 Celsius is higher than ideal, but some graphics cards do reach those kinds of temperatures in normal operation. Most desktop graphics cards are nominally supposed to be able to run hotter than that, up to maybe something like 105 Celsius.
As an idea, see the temperature graph here. Their HD 4850 reached 88 Celsius at full load and 86 Celsius while playing Crysis, and some other cards were hotter than that.
That said, there's no harm in checking the GPU fan and heatsink for dust.
Anyhow, streaky lights like you see are usually just symptoms of dying hardware, like people have been saying. Usually if you lower graphics settings, you will stress the card less. Symptoms may disappear this way, and you might extend the life of the card a little longer. If you want a real fix, you can buy a new GPU.
So 87 is the top out range temp after playing some more which according to your graph is somewhat standard for my card so it's not overheating which shouldn't mean that it's artifacting. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this issue. It's clearly a problem with rendering the jetfire coming out of the scvs and other fire/explosion related graphics. Like I said, I had already updated the driver software and it's still an issue.
Any other ideas? Do you think uninstall and reinstalling would make a difference at all?
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