Ok, I've got a video card problem here. Recently my video card has been heating up to the slowdown threshold, 127*C. It has never done this before, and starts doing it within about 5-10 minutes after entering a game (any game, Dawn of War, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2 & 2142)
After this I start getting wierd textures, artifacts, and other assorted trippy sights, accompanied by massive video lag for 5-30 seconds which seems to slow everything in the system down, and has caused a BSOD in BF2142. I just installed the latest drivers a few minutes ago, and I'm having the same problem. I also went in and cleaned out the fan as well.
when just in windows doing things like web browsing and whatnot it sits at a fairly high 84-83*C.
this just started about tuesday, at first I thought it was network lag because the only 3D apps I had been playing on tues/wed were WoW & Battlefield, but then the artifacting started and it occured in Dawn of War as well.
The video card itself is an nVidia XFX 6800gt 256mb video card. I've never had any problems with it until this week.
basically, what am I looking at here, and does it involve buying a new vidcard? (I hope not, was saving up for a seperate DX10 system)
system specs are in sig.
-thanks!
After this I start getting wierd textures, artifacts, and other assorted trippy sights, accompanied by massive video lag for 5-30 seconds which seems to slow everything in the system down, and has caused a BSOD in BF2142. I just installed the latest drivers a few minutes ago, and I'm having the same problem. I also went in and cleaned out the fan as well.
when just in windows doing things like web browsing and whatnot it sits at a fairly high 84-83*C.
this just started about tuesday, at first I thought it was network lag because the only 3D apps I had been playing on tues/wed were WoW & Battlefield, but then the artifacting started and it occured in Dawn of War as well.
The video card itself is an nVidia XFX 6800gt 256mb video card. I've never had any problems with it until this week.
basically, what am I looking at here, and does it involve buying a new vidcard? (I hope not, was saving up for a seperate DX10 system)
system specs are in sig.
-thanks!