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    Artifact Problems

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by ttupa, Jun 27, 2006.

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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    Hello, I'm having a few problems playing Hitman: Blood Money on my computer. I was using DHZeropoint drivers, but hadn't gamed with them. When I tried, things didn't show properly, so I switched to a standard nvidia driver. However, without any overclocking I am seeing black squares show up on the left side of my screen during the game. It runs perfectly other than that, so I'm going to assume it's a driver or bios issue.

    Is there a way to rid myself of these artifacts? I've tried many different drivers, but none had a different result. Before my last reformat I played Black and White 2 with no problems, so I know it's not the game being too much for the card. Even when I run dxdiag the artifacts will show up on each direct 3d test.

    Any ideas?
     
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    I'm going to try another driver.

    I have been working on this problem for awhile. At this point when I run Dxdiag, the dx8 test runs w/o artifacts, but the other two show the two squares on the left.
     
    ttupa, Jun 28, 2006
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    No go... :(

    Any help?
     
    ttupa, Jun 29, 2006
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    how old is your card? It may be deteriorating. Do you experience artifacts in any other games?
     
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    ttupa Tech Elitist NBR Reviewer

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    Thanks for the replies. My signature has the card, but it is:

    nVidia geforce 6200go 128mb RAM/128mb turbocache
    I know it's not a high end card, but it's not super old either. And it's pretty dec for a 14" (at least it was in January). It can run most games on Low settings and some on Medium (like Hitman).

    The computer is 6 months old, so it's most likely not deteriorating. This is the first time I've seen any artifacts. And they do show up in the dxdiag tool. However, I don't have any other games installed...may have to change that soon.

    I am required to have DX9.0c installed for HM:BM so I did that (and reinstalled to test it).
     
    ttupa, Jun 29, 2006
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