Videocard problem?

[Marcello]

I have a strange problem. Every time I play UrU TPOTS (with many added ages) I get artifacts in the Nexus and the fan of my graphics card starts spinning like crazy. In most ages I get stretched geometry and after a while artifacts and even sometimes bluescreens.

The strange thing is... it only happens in UrU. No problems whatsoever when playing Tomb Raider Anniversary. The fan doesn't even accelerate.

I have had this problem for a few months now. Cleaning the inside of my pc and all fans didn't help. Either something is broke (I have a Radeon X1900XT) or somehow UrU messes something up.

Any ideas?

Thnx

[Christian Walther]

I've never had any such problems (or heard of them), but what you describe sounds plausible. Some specific behavior of Uru could trigger a bug in the graphics driver that causes the graphics card to run at full steam and overheat, which in turn causes the artifacts and crashes.

I'd look into up- or downgrading your drivers.

[Marcello]

That would be downgrading then I tried to find new ones today, but seems like mine are the last release for this card.

Thnx Christian

Edit: looks like ATI has a legacy card program. Just found a new one.

[diafero]

Did you try creating a new avatar? I heard of strange things happening when the avatar vault starts breaking...

[Marcello]

Ok... might be time or a new video card. New driver didn't help nor did a new avie. Now noticed artifacts in Tomb Raider too.

Edit: temperatures are skyhigh so I don't think power is the problem. Guess the fan is broke or something