GeForce 8800GTS: wierd effects after playing Far Cry 2

Gaz1701

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It doesn't happen every time I go on it, but this is actually the first time it's happened outside of the game; before, after a while of playing Far Cry 2, I sometimes get some strange texture effects - eg. the sky starts flickering or something.

But this time when it happened (I usually turn off FC2 and restart it to 'fix' the effects), I turned FC2 off, and it was affecting explorer now.

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Could my graphics card be on its way out? My computer's only 3 years old.
 

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Hi Gaz1701 and welcome to Windows 7 Forums :party:

Have you overclocked your graphics card? If so, try reverting back to standard speed. Also, make sure that you have got the latest driver installed.
 

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Thank you for the welcome :)

I've never overclocked my graphics card actually (I don't really feel confident enough to try it), and my graphics driver version's 197.13
 

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MSI MS-7325
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AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ (2 CPUs), ~2.
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MSI K9N4 SLI-F nForce 500 SLI chipset
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2048MB RAM DDR2 (now installed a 2GB chip = 4GB altogether)
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ASUS EAH5770 CU core, 1GB GDDR5 video memory
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Realtek AC'97 Audio
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AOC I2367Fh
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SAMSUNG HD401LJ ATA Device
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u could try to uninstall it then reinstall it(physically and driver wise)
 

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2 words. Over, heating. It looks like messed up, artifacts if you will.
 

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If you don't play Farcry 2 at all after booting up do these effects not appear at all?
What about other games or no games at all?
 

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take out one of the cards and play the game, use the computer, etc.. and see if it artifacts, if not, then put the other card in and do the same.
 

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That could be overheating. How long have had this video card. You might need to blow the dust out. I clean the dust out of my computer every 3-4 weeks and I decided to take the fan shroud off my video card and thoroughly blow out the dust. It actually cooled down by 1-2 degrees. Could be memory problem too. Did you upgrade memory or change any settings?
 

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I had a 8800GTX that started doing this in Crysis. Then it started doing it everywhere. I now have a 275GTX. If you start seeing weirdness anywhere else you might want to start checking out new video cards. This would be an indication that death is near for your video card. Good luck.
 

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Looks like your GPU is dying. My old 6800GT produced strange green artifacts in Crysis then it died.
 

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