Curse

IllusiveMind · Aug 18, 2008, 02:14 AM // 02:14

Greetings. My nvidia 6800GS stock fan died the other day ago, so I dispatched the video card until I put a new modded fan. Meanwhile I am using my old ATI Radeon 9200SE but now the card is displaying graphical anomalies on all my games. If you look closely you should see the graphical anomalies over my character's cape.

I did the usual troubleshooting, dusting, cleaning, driver cleaning, resetting the card, etc... but none of them is fixing my problem. Is my video card damaged? I suppose so, it's quite old and I used it a lot.

Here are my system specs.
Windows XP (sp2)
PentiumD 2.8
1 GB RAM
ASUS P5VDC-X
ATI RADEON 9200 (Omega Drivers 3.8.252, I also tried the default drivers and still give me the same problem).

Edit:Changed pic showing where to look. Is quite hard to figure it out....

Lord Sojar · Aug 18, 2008, 07:25 AM // 07:25

Looks like sprite misdraws? I can't tell from the low resolution and actively seeing them. My guess, it is the older GPU failing. The 9000 radeons had TERRIBLE leaking issues.

IllusiveMind · Aug 18, 2008, 06:12 PM // 18:12

Thanks for pointing that out Rahja. Here is a better pic showing more anomalies.

moriz · Aug 18, 2008, 06:17 PM // 18:17

looks like overheating to me.

if i remember correctly, the radeon 9200SE is a low profile card and does not even have a fan. it probably cannot take the additional heat.

IllusiveMind · Aug 18, 2008, 06:27 PM // 18:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by moriz

looks like overheating to me.

if i remember correctly, the radeon 9200SE is a low profile card and does not even have a fan. it probably cannot take the additional heat.

Indeed, it does not have a fan but oddly enough I used this card for almost two years on my current rig, which is well ventilated and quite cool and never had this problem before. I guess the GPU is badly failing, just like Rahja said. Thanks for pointing out the overheating. I will troubleshoot more, any other ideas?

fenix · Aug 19, 2008, 03:10 AM // 03:10

Looks like it's artifacting as well, which is a sign of over heating.