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Video Artifacting in Dawn of War

post #1 of 12
3/23/09 at 12:51pm
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I just bought the Platnium edition of Dawn of War, which has 3 games. However every now and than I get horrible artifacting which makes the menus almost impossible to see. How would I test to see if its the game, graphics card or a driver issue?
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post #2 of 12
3/23/09 at 1:05pm
Always run the latest drivers. What temp is your GPU running at, are you over clocking at all?

GPU testing:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ge...downloads.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
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post #3 of 12
3/23/09 at 1:17pm
when i hear artifacting, it makes me think you're notebook is getting too hot. or at least your video card is.
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post #4 of 12
3/23/09 at 1:28pm
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Desktop, I thought I had good airflow. I guess I will need some sort of temperature monitoring program. I'm running a 7900 gt in a Desktop, Lian-li 1200 case.

Its an older model of this one, which is all silver. I think the same layout though. i had to remove 2 of the harddrive holder to get a nice cable flow.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811112173
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post #5 of 12
3/23/09 at 1:32pm
Then why are you posting in the notebook support section nub?
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post #6 of 12
3/23/09 at 1:37pm
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Muahaha! Made you work harder! I'm not overclocking my gpu either. I'd like to be able to sculpt in zbrush or animate for several hours at a time, which my computer does fine now. I doubt overclocking would be good for that unless I had liquid cooling, for stability.
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post #7 of 12
3/23/09 at 4:32pm
Download this:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/system_monitor.html

watch the temps and post them back here.
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post #8 of 12
3/23/09 at 9:43pm
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The GPU is at 46 C and the CPU is at 37 and 33 C, idling. The artifacting start as soon as the game is started, before the temperatures would change. SO its probably not a gpu or cpu issue. And I have the latest Nvidia drivers. When I took a prntscrn screen grab, however the artifacts do not show up.
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post #9 of 12
3/23/09 at 9:46pm
Intresting, try resetting the video card in the PCI slot. Also unistall the game and reinstall it. Then get the patches for the game.
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post #10 of 12
3/23/09 at 10:21pm
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I'm running a dual screen setup. Should I change it to a duplicate setup, rather than an extended screen? Or is there a way to switch to the other monitor?
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post #11 of 12
3/24/09 at 1:06am
I would kill the second display when you want to game. Under the advanced tab in Nvida control panel you can set applications to do certain things that override global controls.
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post #12 of 12
3/24/09 at 6:01am
Its probably the 2nd display. I agree with Darq, disable it and see what happens.
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