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Archress Shayleigh · Jun 14, 2010, 06:21 PM // 18:21

Hey fellow Guru'ers!!
I'm Shayleigh and I'm experiencing weird UI bugs (Compass when I draw on it and heroes' faces & health, energy bars.)... I'll post a couple of screenies as I don't really know how to explain it...

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I don't have any pics of the hero disfacing although I can try to describe it.. Their face detaches itself from the head (in the inventory window) and the texture of the face gets stretched out to the middle of my screen. Same happens sometimes with their energy and health bars when I open their mini-windows for micro management. Then bar goes black and the blue/red filling stretches from the edge of the bar in a huge triangle that disrupts all view into the middle of my screen... It's very weird and very annoying.. I've trying running a -repair... Still happens.
I do not use any 3rd party programs, bots, or even texmod, for that matter.
This is my OS:
Windows Vista Home Premium (32- bit).
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00 GHz
2.50 GB RAM
ATI Radeon Xpress1250
I'm using an LG E200 Laptop...
Thanks ahead for the help guys..
Shayleigh

Bob Slydell · Jun 14, 2010, 06:56 PM // 18:56

First thing I'd do is reinstall the video drivers. If that doesn't seem to fix it, rather than -repair, -image while overnight (if you have the internet speed and resources to do so).

tijo · Jun 14, 2010, 07:11 PM // 19:11

If you don't have problems while playing other games, it's very probable that your Gw.dat file got corrupted somehow, there were one or two instances where a -repair didn't fix issues i had on my old PC, so you might want to remove GW and do a fresh install using -image.

Checking that your video drivers are up to date is also a good idea. You might want to remove the old driver before installing a new version though.

Archress Shayleigh · Jun 14, 2010, 07:16 PM // 19:16

Thanks for the quick reply... Bob, how do I reinstall the video drives? (not rlly such a master computer wiz..) Thnx Tijo, I'll reinstall the game and -image it.

Bob Slydell · Jun 14, 2010, 08:15 PM // 20:15

I'm honestly not sure how to on Vista. I still use XP

some-_1 · Jun 14, 2010, 08:43 PM // 20:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archress Shayleigh

how do I reinstall the video drives?

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...ev=10.2&ostype=

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATI

ATI Radeon X1250 Series

I'm assuming that's the correct one? If so, download and install the Catalyst Software Suite at the bottom of the page and that will update your drivers.

Chthon · Jun 15, 2010, 02:35 AM // 02:35

Video card failure. Either a sign of overheating or of permanent damage.

Archress Shayleigh · Jun 15, 2010, 10:29 AM // 10:29

Yeah.. I guess overheating is an issue here. This laptop desk is retarded... And I guess I also have to clean the inside, maybe even replace the fan.

tijo · Jun 15, 2010, 12:53 PM // 12:53

You can use a utility like the AMD GPU clock tool (by AMD, though you won't find the download on their site), GPU-Z (by techpoweup) to check your videocard temperatures. Never seen an overheating GPU behaving like this, but i guess there's a first time for everything.

Note that some laptop GPUs tend to run hotter than their PC counterparts. You can read this thread on the notebookreview forums. There's probably an owner's lounge thread for your notebook as well, if other users have experiences similar issues, it might be in that thread.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/note...worry-you.html

Depending on how long you had the notebook, cleaning the insides is certainly a good idea. If it's still under warranty, check if opening it for cleaning voids the warranty (changing something else than RAM or HDD voids the warranty on a couple of notebooks). Some notebooks may require quite a bit of disassembling in order to clean the fan/heatsink as well.