Weird graphics problem

[Asty]

Im playing Daoc and lately i've had a gfx bug. My computer can suddenly freeze for several seconds and after that the screen looks like this. I have to reboot computer to get rid of it. In that state i can play but it can freeze again for several seconds which can result a total crashing - can only reboot. My gfx card is GeForce fx5200.

If anyone happens to know what might cause this or how to fix it i'd be very greatfull.

 

[jaba]

Have you upgraded the drivers lately? or modified the computer in any way such as overclocking etc? Looks like graphics card is overheating to me, but then I dont know that much!

 

[Clown]

Idiot answer:
DAoC is a virus that kills graphics cards. Delete DAoC.

Sensible anwer:
Have you tried to overclock the graphics card in anyway? Did you change anything before it started doing that?

 

[Asty]

I have updated both directx and gfx card drives and nope, havent overclocked anything and it started suddenly, didn't do anything.

 

[jaba]

Updated drivers before or after the problem started? If before then try and roll them back. Does it happen in any other games? Try doing a stress test on it using 3dmark or some other program and see how it copes with those

edit: also go to memtest86.com and try that program out there, it might be your RAM gone bad

 

[Clown]

I remember when some driver update started fucking with the graphics on BF1942. Try a rollback as jaba said.

 

[Asty]

I updated drivers when the problem had already started. It also happened in UT2k3 before it came to Daoc which i find pretty odd.

 

[jaba]

Did you try the memory test program and the other tests?
Do you have a spare graphics card you can put in the machine to see if its the card that is at fault?

 

[Asty]

I ran 3dmark and it crashed right after starting the test. Got a message like this (badly translated to english): "A hardware problem has occured, save your work and restart the computer"

Btw sorry i typed my gfx card name wrong before. It's GeForce fx5600, thought i could share this info from it if you find anything odd in it:

DirectX Info
Version 9.0
Long Version 4.09.00.0902


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DirectDraw
Version 5.3.0000000.900
Primary Device NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600

Display Device 1/1
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Driver 5.6.7.2

Description NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Total Local Video Memory 256 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 256 MB
Total AGP Memory 64 MB
Driver File nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 5.6.7.2
Driver Date 3-24-2004
Driver WHQL Certified false
Max Texture Width 4096 px
Max Texture Height 4096 px
Max User Clipping Planes 6
Max Active Hardware Lights 8
Max Texture Blending Stages 8
Fixed Function Textures In Single Pass 8
Vertex Shader Version 2.0
Pixel Shader Version 2.0
Max Vertex Blend Matrices 0
Max Texture Coordinates 8
VGA Memory Clock 100.3 MHz
VGA Core Clock 54.0 MHz
PCI
Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
Vendor ID 0x10de
Device ID 0x0312
SubSystem ID 0x00000000
Revision ID 0xa1

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Texture Formats
32-bit ARGB [8888]
32-bit RGB [888]
16-bit RGB [565]
16-bit RGB [555]
16-bit ARGB [1555]
16-bit ARGB [4444]
8-bit YUV [800]
16-bit AYUV [8800]
FourCC [DXT1]
FourCC [DXT2]
FourCC [DXT3]
FourCC [DXT4]
FourCC [DXT5]

Capabilities
AGP Texturing, Hardware Transform and Lighting, Positional Lights, Subpixel Accurate Rasterizing, Stencil Buffers, Range Fog, Table Fog, Vertex Fog, W-Fog, Specular Gouraud Shading, Anisotropic Filtering, Bilinear Filtering, Point Sampling, Trilinear Filtering, Additive Texture Blending, Dot3 Texture Blending, Multiplicative Texture Blending, Subtractive Texture Blending, Environmental Bump Mapping, Environmental Bump Mapping With Luminance, Cube Mapping, Factor Alpha Blending, Vertex Alpha Blending, Texture Alpha Blending, Texture Clamping, Texture Mirroring, Texture Wrapping, Guard Band Support, Mipmap LOD Bias Adjustment, Projected Textures, Volume Textures, Point Primitive Support, Full-Screen Anti-Aliasing, DXT Compressed Textures, Two Sided Stencil Test, Mipmapped Volume Textures, Mipmapped Cube Textures, Texture Border Color, Spherical Mapping, Automatic Mipmap Generation, Hardware Rasterization, Shading, Transform and Lighting, Scissor Test, Legacy Depth Bias

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DirectShow
Version 9.0
Long Version 4.09.00.0902

 

[jaba]

How did the memory test go?
It sounds to me like the card is dying/dead...try the machine with another card in and see if it runs 3d mark ok then.