Rivatuner not working with 9500M GS?

I downloaded Rivatuner to overclock my graphics card. Later that day, all of the sudden weird flashing red dots came up while playing Call of Duty 4. It only goes in the black, dark spots. and it's annoying cause in some parts they flash or just go color red. I had the overclock all on high in performance 3D. I tried setting it to the lowest. It showed some less red dots, but it was still annoying. I took off startup overclocked settings and changed everything to default and then deleted Rivatuner. The red dots still showed for a day or 2 and then it just stopped. They showed up once in a while, but it was just little and it didn't bother me cause it stopped in 10 seconds and then it showed like couple days later. Today though, I was playing Call of Duty 4 and it was crazy... Red dots were everywhere, more than ever before! Every dark spot was like filled with redness I couldn't play at all, it was totally screwed up. When I restart my laptop it goes away for sometime, but now it shows again and it's even more than when I had them in the beginning. Please, I need some help getting rid of these, I don't understand why this is happening. Did Rivatuner screw up my graphics card or what? My cousin used it and he didn't get any of these red dots. It said that this its an unsupported driver, but my cousin got that as well. This is pretty annoying because it just shows up suddenly out of nowhere. They show up sometimes on like my desktop on some of the icons or something if I'm browsing stuff.

 

What clock settings did you set the GPU to when you overclocked it?

 

I set it to max. It didn't freeze at all and the red dots didn't show up until an hour later. You know there's 3 of those, like Standard 2D, Low Power 3D, and Performance 3D. I went to Performance 3D and I went all the way to max meaning to the right.

 

I'm not the biggest expert here, but I am fairly certain that setting it all the way to the right was a terrible idea. Because when you overclock you increase the heat output of the GPU which can cause damage if the temperatures are too high. I overclock roughly 15% (IIRC, the max overclock offered by Rivatuner is over 40%) and I use many different cooling techniques to keep the temperatures down. Overclocking is something that should be taken very slowly and carefully, something every guide on this forum stresses.

Such a huge overclock may have (and it certainly looks to be the case) permanently damaged your GPU. You may want to wait on a second opinion though.

Edit: Checked Rivatuner - Max core clock speeds was at 715 MHz which is over a 50% increase, which is very bad news even with proper cooling =p

 

Yeah, that's what some other people said as well. Would I have to get a new one or can I just send my laptop to Asus manufacturers to replace my GPU and place in a new one or to fix it or something like that?

 

You could try, but IIRC overclocking voids your warranty, again get a second opinion.

 

As long as it's software they can't know.
OCing & warranties aren't a problem anymore. Most motherboards and some laptops (such as mine) come with overclocking utilities.

 

I just think its a bad idea to tell them that you did some overclocking. Most probably the overclock was too high for the GPU to handle. When you send them in to ASUS, maybe its wiser to just tell them the problem about the dots. Don't mention anything about overclocking. They would assume its a defective GPU, and if ur under warranty, they would replace it free of charge. Goodluck.

 

Yeah, of course I won't tell about overclocking lol. Not only would they charge a lot, but maybe even cancel my warranty lol xD.

 

Read this before you fry your replacement card.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=3000755