So I've been battling this odd problem here for the past 2 months. Unfortunately I've changed a number of things and so cannot pinpoint what the problem might be. First of all when playing games I notice some white fuzz. It looks like an old movie playing, except instead of black fuzz on the white movie screen, I have white fuzz on darker backgrounds. Its small, 1-3 pixels in size, random in appearance, and sporadic. At any time there are 5-6 little fuzzies, and they change location every 1/4th of a second or so. I only notice it when its on a darker image - and only when doing 3D gaming.
Secondly, I get bad texture corruption while playing City of Heroes. Basically certain textures decide they want to go psychedelic on me... and stay that way the rest of the game. It usually presents itself sometime in the first 10 minutes of playing, but occasionally takes a bit longer.
Third, I occasionally have games freeze on me. This happens after about 45 minutes while I am making Neverwinter Nights modules, or just am hardcore CoHing. Really the freezing isn't so much a problem.
Now I suppose this could be my GPU overheating. I just opened it all up and blasted it out with air as best I could - without taking apart the bottom entirely. Overall the fans come on and off much like they always have at idle, and ramp up to medium speed during heavy gaming. So I'm not so sure its heat.
Ok now onto what I've changed in the recent past. 1) I put in the 3Ghz CPU, up from the 2.6Ghz. I also did the AS mod at the time, though I suspect I used a bit too much as temps increased over the old 2.6 more than I'd have liked. Still, I ran 3dmark 2003 overnight without incident and so assumed it was fine. Secondly I updated my video drivers to the Omega 4.8s. Since then I've tried every driver imagineable without being able to fix the problem. Finally, I got a new AC adapter because the amount of noise generated through the speakers while plugged in is just flat out messed up. And Tech support said its normal and not covered by the warranty. So whatever, I wear headphones and can live with it. They said a new AC adapter might fix it since it only happens when plugged in...
I'm still thinking this whole problem might be heat related. If I get my hands on another 2.6 I might throw it back in just to see. Though, I guess permanent GPU damage might exist. I thought the CPU and GPU were near-opposite on sides of the chassis?
Could drivers be doing this? I've run omega's driver cleaner, but who knows right? Right now I have the 4.5s and its still an issue. I have DX9.0c, and WinXP with SP2. This fuzz thing is just whacky. I hope somehow I can get it fixed :chuckle: Thanks for any ideas. Also, can I measure the GPU temperature in any way? If the GPU is overheating and the CPU is not would the laptop compensate appropriately?
Just on a hunch I decided to go looking into this futher... testing other games. UT2004 and BF1942 have no fuzz or texture corruption. Lords of the Realm 3, and 3dmark 2005 do though. Maybe I'll just reload. Or, can anyone recommend a REALLY good driver cleaner (better than omegas)?
Secondly, I get bad texture corruption while playing City of Heroes. Basically certain textures decide they want to go psychedelic on me... and stay that way the rest of the game. It usually presents itself sometime in the first 10 minutes of playing, but occasionally takes a bit longer.
Third, I occasionally have games freeze on me. This happens after about 45 minutes while I am making Neverwinter Nights modules, or just am hardcore CoHing. Really the freezing isn't so much a problem.
Now I suppose this could be my GPU overheating. I just opened it all up and blasted it out with air as best I could - without taking apart the bottom entirely. Overall the fans come on and off much like they always have at idle, and ramp up to medium speed during heavy gaming. So I'm not so sure its heat.
Ok now onto what I've changed in the recent past. 1) I put in the 3Ghz CPU, up from the 2.6Ghz. I also did the AS mod at the time, though I suspect I used a bit too much as temps increased over the old 2.6 more than I'd have liked. Still, I ran 3dmark 2003 overnight without incident and so assumed it was fine. Secondly I updated my video drivers to the Omega 4.8s. Since then I've tried every driver imagineable without being able to fix the problem. Finally, I got a new AC adapter because the amount of noise generated through the speakers while plugged in is just flat out messed up. And Tech support said its normal and not covered by the warranty. So whatever, I wear headphones and can live with it. They said a new AC adapter might fix it since it only happens when plugged in...
I'm still thinking this whole problem might be heat related. If I get my hands on another 2.6 I might throw it back in just to see. Though, I guess permanent GPU damage might exist. I thought the CPU and GPU were near-opposite on sides of the chassis?
Could drivers be doing this? I've run omega's driver cleaner, but who knows right? Right now I have the 4.5s and its still an issue. I have DX9.0c, and WinXP with SP2. This fuzz thing is just whacky. I hope somehow I can get it fixed :chuckle: Thanks for any ideas. Also, can I measure the GPU temperature in any way? If the GPU is overheating and the CPU is not would the laptop compensate appropriately?
Just on a hunch I decided to go looking into this futher... testing other games. UT2004 and BF1942 have no fuzz or texture corruption. Lords of the Realm 3, and 3dmark 2005 do though. Maybe I'll just reload. Or, can anyone recommend a REALLY good driver cleaner (better than omegas)?
onders: Sims2 doesn't have any... its really odd.
