Graphics Problem

I'm currently having a problem with my graphic where my screen will start to look like this.

I've been trying things out (Including the Driver thing) with my video card for a while and I'm pretty sure it isn't the problem. Its a Radeon X800 GTO. All my other specs seem to check out to.
I have a suspicion it could be my processor (It's only half as powerful as it can be, I believe its called a Dual Layer Processor or something, but when we bought the computer, we only bought the first layer.). Guild Wars puts it at 100% usage. Does this make sense?

hmmm i rly have no idea

its never happened to me

might wanna email GW support cuz thats 1 weird screen lol

when did it start happening? and does it happen with other games?

It also occures during online play on Rise of Legends. But Halo works fine. The first occurance of this problem was after I installed my Dad's Digital Camara Software. Kodak EasyShare. It's gotten worse since then.

have u tried uninstalling that camera software?

Ya, i would say if you can identify the time this issue occured AND it coincided with other software installs, i would say it has something to do with resource conflicts.

Even though it could still be a long shot you could try to 1) uninstall the camera software, then test the game. Problem persists then with the camera software still uninstalled 2) reintall the newest graphic drivers. If the problem STILL persists, then i would 3) roll back to older graphics drivers, the most accessable probly being the ones that came with your Graphics Card.

And last but not least, send in a report to Anet Support with the screenshots attached. The will most likely respond and ask you to send them a DirectX specs report, so be ready for that too.

I know its all real basic advice, but often times in the past one of the above steps have actually worked out for me. Best of luck! I really hope you can work it out!

cheers!

^^Good ideas. Might also want to try reinstalling DX, see if that helps any, as some file(s) may have gotten corrupted.

Yeah, try uninstalling Easy Share cause that thing is just a pain and you don't need it to get pics off your camera anyway. And if it still persists, maybe it was a coincidence and there's something wrong with your video card like overheating (dust, lack of circulation, dead video card fan, bad memory, etc.) or something happened to the drivers.

Having worked in tech support a long time, and having a video card fail on me, I have to say that looks *alot* like a video card failure or a memory failure. Especially the way it's so uniform across the image.

Not saying it is for sure, it could very well be the software, but since no one else went in this direction I thougth I'd throw in my 2cents about hardware (from experience).

I've seen similar things with memory failures in systems before. Where one "bank" dies (or something, I may have worked tech but I don't know how chips are laid out inside)...ending up in with a uniform pattern of failure in the image. You'd think a memory failure would cause more random problems (and they do that as well). But sometimes it does come out uniform like that.

The fact it only happens in certain game is also not always a sign that all your hardware is just fine. Some games push things much harder than others. There have been a few games in the last year where I've read on forums about people having to underclock video cards to eliminate graphical anomolies and/or crashes. Especially older cards that probably were not tested thoroughly enough during beta testing. Like the 9800pro (seen quite a few new games and problems with that card).

If you can't figure it out on the software side, I'd recommend getting a good memory test program and running it overnight. If your memory tests out fine, you can also consider trying some things with the video card, like under-clocking the card with a 3rd party utility. Also, your transfer rate on your AGP port can sometimes cause these kinds of problems. My own system for example, I have 8x AGP port and an 8x AGP card, yet if I let it run at 8x I got some odd graphical anomolies in *some* games (not all). When I set it to 4x all my games work fine, and the difference between 8x and 4x is pretty negligible.