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gfx/video broken images?

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by Thacrudd, 18 Dec 2007.

  1. Thacrudd

    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    When I am playing a game there seems to be what I could only refer to as scan lines or broken image lines through whatever is on screen. It is especially noticable during the opening developer logo videos when you first start up crysis or during the benchmark in World in Conflict. It looks like when you take an image and make a line through it and the top and bottom halves don't quite match up. I thought it might be a refresh rate problem but It does iin multiple games. Any ideas to what it might be?:confused:
     
  2. Delphium

    Delphium Eyefinity enabled

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    Hardware? (which card, single, or SLI/Crossfire)
    OS, going to assume windows xp?
    Driver version?
    Temps on gfx card?
     
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  3. Thacrudd

    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    single 8800gts 320mb
    athlon x2 6000+
    windows xp
    forceware 169.09 beta
    good temps, card not OC'd
    I'm pretty sure it's not the temps because I can trun on my computer and go straight into the game and it still does it. I don't think it's the driver either since It did it with other driver versions also. I just got a brand new monitor yesterday also, and the problem still arises.
     
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    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    What power supply have you got?
     
  5. Thacrudd

    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    Muffins17 What's a Dremel?

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    Well that strikes me as a rubbish powersupply, but i don't reckon thats the issue.
     
  7. Thacrudd

    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    yeah, it isn't the best thats for sure, but it's a possibility. Hey, can I borrow $200 dollars for a new one? Tis the season to be giving you know lol
     
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    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    Okay, so I was playing Portal yesterday and the screen was doing it's usual thing and I enabled Vertical sync and it fixed the prob. Out of curiosity, what does v-sync actually do?
     
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    Thacrudd Where's the any key?!?

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    thanks oasked, guess I could've done that myself lol:wallbash: I had never had that problem before though. You would think that with an 8800gts and a spankin new 22" flatpanal it wouldn't do that but oh well. Thanks for your support guys
     

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