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Characters flashing during gameplay.

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  • 10-04-2011 11:44am
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    shizz
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    I recently got the home PC up and running again after Hard Drive and monitor failures so I was delighted to play COD 4 again. It worked fine before anything happened to it and Im still running the same Graphics card, nVidia GeForce 7300 GT. Straight away when I started playing COD4 i noticed that characters where lighting up and flickering when I moved around in the game. Also weather like rain appeared in doors when this happened. I didn't notice this before.

    Ive had a Graphics card fail before from overheating and im afraid that the same problems may be happening here, so I stopped playing.

    The only other difference to the system is that the monitor which was a dell 14" i think is now very wide, possibly 20" AOC, not sure. Could this affect the graphics card? I tried running it as a smaller screen in game but this didn't solve the issue.

    If you could shed any "light" on the situation (terrible pun I know) that would be really helpful.

    Thanks


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    shizz
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    Any ideas?


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    Hank Scorpio
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    Does the problem occur straight away or after a while?

    Download MSI Afterburner and have it running while your playing. You can set it up to show tempertures/fps of your card while you play. Dont change any of the sliders though :p , then post back the results here

    If you need help setting up the in game display just post back here or pm me.

    Linky: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/images/MSIAfterburnerSetup210.zip


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    shizz
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    nuxxx wrote: »
    Does the problem occur straight away or after a while?

    Download MSI Afterburner and have it running while your playing. You can set it up to show tempertures/fps of your card while you play. Dont change any of the sliders though :p , then post back the results here

    If you need help setting up the in game display just post back here or pm me.

    Linky: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/images/MSIAfterburnerSetup210.zip

    It occurs straight away. Gonna run it now and see what i get


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    shizz
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    Im not sure how to post the results without just writing them out so here it goes.
    Max temp was 59, It says GPU usage is 0 and max memory usage was 205.

    The rest are constant. Why would it say the gpu usage was 0?

    Also I got an error saying "you have insufficient free disk space. Please free up at least 5mb" thats the first time I got that. Is it talking about hard drive space?


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    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Did it say gpu usage was 0 in the game? I`d understand it being 0 if you were playing then exited out of the game and checked it though. That would be normal.

    This thread might interest you http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055805374


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    shizz
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    To be honest im not to sure how to use it. Do you need to enable the recording? it just seemed to run as soon as I opened it?


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    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Did you get sorted eventually shizz?


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    shizz
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    no man I haven't. I have to do a fresh install of windows on that computer at some stage, and just recently got a new laptop capable of playing all the games I have so It's been put on the back burner for a while


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