Joined: Jan 07, 2011
Posts: 29
Location: sweden
Hi all !!
I am in need of some big time help with a problem i have.
This morning right out of the blue all my games stoped working.
They start just fine but when it comes to chose wich class i wanna use the games freezes and the monitor just gets either blury or start looking wierd with all kinds if colours and things.
And when i hit ctrl-alt-del the taskmanager just pops ut for a quick second and then dissapers with out giving me the option to close the game.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers without any succes.
So i start to think if its the videocard thats casuing the problem or if it is something in win 7.
Any help is very appriceated.
Swedish the plonker......
Joined: Feb 24, 2011
Posts: 537
Joined: Mar 08, 2010
Posts: 1934
Location: Northampton, UK
Hi Swedish,
Could be temperature issue as TakerDeep mentioned. I know it's difficult to not jump into a game straight away, but are you able to use the computer for browsing or other stuff for any length of time or does it only lock-up when launching games (i.e. switching to high-res)?
I had something like this about a year ago, and had to remove all drivers, set Windows to use a default res of 800x600, then finally install the new drivers.
There was a new set of ATI catalyst drivers released a couple of days ago - so could this be a cause?
~ Uchi
Joined: May 31, 2011
Posts: 2631
Location: Fort McMurray, AB
Blurring and crazy colors? Oh yes, you're overheating. GPU-Z is a good, free, small program that can record max/current GPU temps to a log file. Run it, enable logging, and start a game.
If your temps are okay (say, less than 80-90c) than your GPU is probably faulty.
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