Techie Help Needed!

[IvanRosski]

Hello folks,

I apologise if this is the wrong place to post this, but I'm desperate for help from any PC techie types who might be able to give me a hand.

I've started getting some weird graphical bugs in Oblivion on the PC, along with a slew of other games. Basically I'll be playing for a while, then the game will hang, then when I start moving again I have some very odd, and very specific texture corruption - faces turn blue, barrels turn pink, that sort of thing.

I'm running an E6750 2.6 overclocked to 3.5Ghz, a BFG OCX Nvidia 285, with 2gig of ram. Dialling the CPU overclock hasn't fixed the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Iain

 

[erbkaiser]

Could be heat issues. Do you have heat sensors on your motherboard / CPU / RAM / GPU? If so, enable these and check for values.

If you do not have a program for it, use Speedfan: http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

You don't want a temp of more than ~60C / ~140F.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

It sounds like something may have been damaged due to overheating, since you were overclocking that is possible. If you have an older graphics card or onboard graphics you could try using that instead to see if you get the same problems.

 

[Sebenko]

Yeah, that sounds like a problem with a graphics card.

Try checking the temperature- It shouldn't be running at more than what erbkaiser said.
If it's for a while, it does sound like overheating, so try turning down overclocking, keeping things cooler- higher fan settings, or if things get desperate, take the side of the case off and use a desk fan.

 

[IvanRosski]

Thanks for the quick replies chaps.

All the temps are well within decent ranges - running Oblivion, the GPU temp never gets above 65C, which is fine for the 285.

One odd aspect is that some games are totally fine - Metro 2033 can run happily for as long as I want, and has not once shown the same symptoms. On the other hand, I can turn my PC on, load Oblivion, and it can corrupt within 20 seconds of playing.

It's not just recent games either - it even shows up in Return to Castle Wolfenstein!

Running Intel Burn Test on standard, the core temps on the CPU never get over 57C.

Cheers,
Iain

 

[Raikov]

Don't forget to update your drivers!

Could also be a symptom of an old Power Supply Unit that is getting tired and worn. And you might want to check the dust levels in the box itself.

 

[Telperion]

Huh! That sounds weird.

Anyway, just to be on the safe side you should run a full virus scan + disk defrag.

 

[IvanRosski]

Well, that solves that one! Due to the fact that I'm unable to throw anything out, I had an 8800GT that I was able to put in, and lo and behold, 3 hours of perfect, glitch free Oblivion.

Oh well, time to spend some money on a new card!

Thanks for the help everyone, I hope one day I can return the favour.

Cheers,
Iain

 

[Void(null)]

Could also be that the connector from your Monitor to your Video Card has come loose.

If its not that then yeah, sounds like a dead card and you should see about RMA'ing it.