Why does this card not work?
Ok I thought I knew a lot about computers but this is really stumping me. I had a crappy intel onboard graphics that ran gw fine at the lowest settings. Now I guess gwen graphics were too much for it cause it started kicking me out to windows with an error box something about not receiving or displaying graphics and I had to restart.
So my boyfriend went out and got me a NVIDIA geforce 8500 GT Fatal1ty which I promptly installed. Now it doesn't get that blue error screen anymore but the entire screen will just darken and freeze in certain areas (for example the area of sacnoth valley in the burning part before the dungeon there) The game is still running, I can hear my valient heros trying to keep fighting and so on, but the graphics part is frozen. Sometimes I can force quit the game back to windows but I'm finding it hard to vanquish this area with this problem. There will be other graphics errors too such as the entire screen blinking on and off yellowish tint to everything, or parts of things (people's legs, chests etc) not showing up at all, or random textures will suddenly appear as yellow boxes or something. I added a second fan on the video card in case cooling was an issue but that didn't help. It's back at the geek squad now but frankly I have little faith in them as they've had it 4 times and the problem is not fixed.
Has anyone had a similar problem, or know of an issue with this card and gw? I haven't been able to play all weekend basically because of this, and now they want to send my computer away for 2 weeks to see if they can diagnose the problem
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