Hardware serious graphical issues/texture corruption

[garyw]

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've got a GeForce GTX7900 that's been doing this for few days and it's getting worse. I've upgraded/downgraded drivers and all sorts.
I've cleared all the dust out of the card and the connectors but within a few seconds the screen goes mad again.

screenshot here:

 

[Hielor]

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've got a GeForce GTX7900 that's been doing this for few days and it's getting worse. I've upgraded/downgraded drivers and all sorts.
I've cleared all the dust out of the card and the connectors but within a few seconds the screen goes made again.

screenshot here:

Never seen anything like that in Orbiter, and the one time I had a game do that to me it was fixed by just restarting the game. Do you have another graphics card you can swap in to see if that works?

 

[orb]

Looks like not textures, but vertices aren't where they should be. Is it similar in other Direct3D rendering applications?

 

[TSPenguin]

I've seen that in several games connected to overclocking. Albeit I doubt you OC your card, it might be a good idea to run ATItool just to check if the chip is working alright.

 

[garyw]

I've seen that in several games connected to overclocking. Albeit I doubt you OC your card, it might be a good idea to run ATItool just to check if the chip is working alright.

Cheers TSP. I did that and it's not overclocked. I'm starting to think that the card has a fault.

Looks like not textures, but vertices aren't where they should be. Is it similar in other Direct3D rendering applications?

Yes. I ran a stress test tool and within a few seconds I got very similar effects.

 

[Mogeley]

I've seen that and heard of that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it's usually connected with a video card starting to die, and performing bad video calculations.

 

[garyw]

I've seen that and heard of that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it's usually connected with a video card starting to die, and performing bad video calculations.

I thought the card might be dying but didn't want to pay out if I'd been missing something obvious. I'll go buy a new one.