I have a problem that is driving me nuts, when I am playing a game such as Silent Hunter 3 or Medal Of Honour Allied Assault, after a while (sometimes, not all the time) the game seems to freeze a little, then, when I get movement, loads of pixels have appeared on screen, like square dots everywhere, hard to explain, I shall have to sort out some kind of screen shot when it next happens, but, if anyone has any thoughts, let me know....

Gfx card is a GeForce FX5600 with all the latest drivers installed

CPU is a AMD 2200 XP

are they white or black dots on the textures of objects?

sounds to me that its most likely the card overheating... if its dots then its most likely the GPU thats overheating... if an entire polygon's texture is currupt then its the graphics cards ram..

Originally posted by xafier
are they white or black dots on the textures of objects?

sounds to me that its most likely the card overheating... if its dots then its most likely the GPU thats overheating... if an entire polygon's texture is currupt then its the graphics cards ram..

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I have got those screenshots I mentioned, hope this throws some light on the matter.

Overheating is one possibility, this hot weather obviously would not be helping matters, going to swap gfx cards later to test if that is the problem, it just did it on Command and Conquer Zero Hour, so, now to the screenshots :-

http://www.royles.org/va/pixels1.jpg

http://www.royles.org/va/pixels2.jpg

I have highlighted the pixels that are to be seen, it is pretty evident though.

its definitely the card, could be heat could be the vga memory. stick a room fan pointing into the pc case to see if that helps, it usually does if its heat related.

It was heat problems, the fan on the card had died, damn, new gfx card on the cards then, grrrrr.

Temporarily using a spare card I had laying around, this will do until cash starts flowing the right way.