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    7811 Screen Artifacts

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Agent.Orange, Apr 25, 2009.

  1. Agent.Orange

    Agent.Orange Notebook Geek

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    After installing Devil May Cry 4 on my laptop, I noticed I was getting strange screen artifacts. Some edges and lines get all streaky. It looks as if its a video tape thats getting fast forwarded or rewound. This only happens for very specific parts, for example, theres a statue in the game that always gets that artifact effect while everything else looks beautiful.

    Afterwards, I booted up gta 4 and right away I saw the screen artifact effect on the text of warning message. So far everything in game looks normal, but then the text in the menu options are again effected by the artifacts. Sometimes I see it outside of games too, but only when my gpu is still hot.

    I think I may have overheated my gpu...but when I first noticed the problem while playing dmc4, the gpu stayed below 80 degrees. It also noticed it pretty quickly, I started the game for only a few minutes, exited to increase the resolution and graphics settings and then it started to appear.

    Is it likely that its a heating issue? My card isn't overclocked or anything. Wouldn't the card have downclocked before it got damaged?

    I hope my problem isnt from hardware damage. Prior to installing DMC4 I had to install something from direct X. Pretty sure it was just direct X 10. Could that have anything to do with it?

    I also tried reinstalling my video drivers (driver sweep and everything). But still...nothing.

    Out of desperation I even tried to use a restore point, but the only one I have is from before reinstalling my video drivers.

    So can anyone think of an explanation, or even a solution?
     
    Agent.Orange, Apr 25, 2009
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    dds999 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Agent.Orange Notebook Geek

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    omg yes, yes, yes thats what it looks like. Was the procedure hard?
     
    Agent.Orange, Apr 25, 2009
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    Not at all. Took all of 3 minutes.
     
    oamster, Apr 25, 2009
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    it worked, hurray for NBR!
     
    Agent.Orange, Apr 27, 2009
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