video card senility, and a Kaleun's forced retirement

Keelbuster · 03-08-07, 01:48 PM

Ok so it's finally happened boys - my Radeon 9700 has full-blown alzheimer's. Just as I started to get really into GWX (patrol 3), I started getting blue-screen hard-reboot video memory failures on a regular basis. This happens after I've run her a while, using external cam or periscope, when I'm in convoys, or sporadically when i switch back into the command room (F2) and it has to load those graphics. Through the periscope I see brightly coloured artifact polygons, and ships flicker and become transparent. For some reason SH3 is more prone to causing the failure than other games, perhaps because of the high graphics memory demand. So...that's it boys - I'm beached until i can afford to buy a new rig.

Kb

03-08-07, 01:48 PM	#1
Keelbuster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: BA 72 Posts: 1,092 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	video card senility, and a Kaleun's forced retirement Ok so it's finally happened boys - my Radeon 9700 has full-blown alzheimer's. Just as I started to get really into GWX (patrol 3), I started getting blue-screen hard-reboot video memory failures on a regular basis. This happens after I've run her a while, using external cam or periscope, when I'm in convoys, or sporadically when i switch back into the command room (F2) and it has to load those graphics. Through the periscope I see brightly coloured artifact polygons, and ships flicker and become transparent. For some reason SH3 is more prone to causing the failure than other games, perhaps because of the high graphics memory demand. So...that's it boys - I'm beached until i can afford to buy a new rig. Kb __________________