problem when playing high graphic games

[finalmoto]

i got problem when playing games which required high graphic performance such as crysis, farcry2 and etc..i dont know whether my graphic card or ram giving me this problem. this usually occur when i play game for more than 30 minutes. the display become corrupted and showing 16bit color. but luckily when i press alt tab and wait for 1 or 2 min, i can still continue my games for another 1 or 2 hours. here the screen shot i've taken from last remnant :

 

 

 

 

i'm using 8600gt and corsair xms2 twinx

[PeeWee90]

Maybe you could write your complete computer specs?

[finalmoto]

here's my complete spec : amd 4800+, psu 460w, asus m3a mobo, 2gb ram corsair xms twin2x, 256mb ddr3 8600gt

[Killa Kiwi]

here's my complete spec : amd 4800+, psu 460w, asus m3a mobo, 2gb ram corsair xms twin2x, 256mb ddr3 8600gt

 

I'm going to place a bet that its the PSU, dual card req. is typically at least 550w. When did this start happening, just did, or has it been since you built the machine, installed the 2nd card...?

Edited May 5, 2009 by Killa Kiwi

[owcraftsman]

ditto on the specs and when you say it continues for another hour or 2 is that at the 16 bit color level or does it go back to normal 32 bit? Normally I'd say a heat issue but in this case I'd say a background process. So along with complete system specs include bios and OS version and SP?? then give us a list of installed software with there versions. It might also be helpful to let us know if this just started happening and worked fine before, or what??

 

Edit: you must have been repling at the same time I was and I missed it. what OS and check your minimum requirements for the game. and again likely a background task is hogging your resources.

Edited May 5, 2009 by owcraftsman

[PeeWee90]

There is no second graphics card, only twin memory modules.

 

Is the graphicscard well cooled?

[Killa Kiwi]

There is no second graphics card, only twin memory modules.

 

Is the graphicscard well cooled?

 

I just woke up, eyes crossed, *other lame excuses for not reading that right*

[finalmoto]

it almost 2-3 month i'm having this kind or prob. the games return to normal 32 bit after i press alt tab and wait for while at desktop (usually 5-10seconds). the problem only happen when playing high performance requirement games only and set it to max res which i can get (1280x1024). i not facing the problem when playing low performance requirement such as warcraft3, pes2009 or WoW. i dont know whether heat issue or not because i just let cpu casing open for the whole time. the system is not oc and no sli. i just using single card 8600gt

 

btw i'm using xp sp3 and 17" samsung 732n lcd monitor

[finalmoto]

btw, my machine is 1 year and a half old

[Killa Kiwi]

Anyone else finding it odd that since he can grab a screen shot that this would mean that windows sees it this way too. So I'm thinking the graphics card is displaying what it's being told to by the OS. If it was signal corruption coming out of the graphics card windows wouldnt see the corrupted image.

 

I think I'm right about that, might be out in left field.

[finalmoto]

Anyone else finding it odd that since he can grab a screen shot that this would mean that windows sees it this way too. So I'm thinking the graphics card is displaying what it's being told to by the OS. If it was signal corruption coming out of the graphics card windows wouldnt see the corrupted image.

 

I think I'm right about that, might be out in left field.

 

so that's mean my OS having problem?

[Crazy_Nate]

Try running a program like Furmark and watching your GPU temperatures...and see if you get any artifacts. If you do, try lowering the clocks with rivatuner. Repeat.

 

Last remnant can be a resource hog, it's based off of the UT3 engine.

 

What brand is the 460W PSU? Lesser quality PSU's can cause a large variety of stability problems.