GrimeyAK 0 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I was taking a break from reading "A Streetcar Named Desire" for my Intro to Theatre class and decided to reinstall and play some MOH Airborne. After a while the game froze and red blocks appeared across the screen, much like a checker pattern. The weird thing was that while the image was frozen with a red checker pattern over it, the sound was still going on like I was still playing. It wasn't the repeating sound either, like what usually happens if a game crashes. I was parachuting down when it happened, and while the screen was frozen with me looking down I could hear the Germans start shooting at me. Ctrl-Alt-Delete didn't work, nor did Alt-Tab, or the Windows button. I had to do a hard reboot. I played a second time and it did the same, but in a different area. I thought the graphics card might be overheating -- does anyone else think so? So far it's only happened with MOH. Other graphics intensive games, like UT3 (also using UE3), Crysis, and Company of Heroes, haven't had problems. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Do you have the latest graphics drivers for your video card? This is a complete guess but could it be tearing? Do you have VSync on? I'm sure somebody else will have more suggestions. Hope you get it working. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GrimeyAK 0 Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 I have the latest nvidia beta drivers for xp 32-bit, which are 169.28 if I remember correctly. I don't think it's a vsync problem, especially if it freezes the screen with a red checkerboard pattern. Thanks for your input. I may try to play some more to see if it still happens. I'm using the EVGA 8800GT Superclocked, and it's not really a big overclock. It's been fairly stable since I got the card. Anyone else have any ideas? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sktrbssmn 0 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 hello, i was having the same issue on my wife's system, i went through 2 evga 8800gt's, they are having a problem with them. i have since put in a 8800gts and also rest her bios, have had not problems since. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GrimeyAK 0 Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 (edited) Thanks for the info, I'll keep that in mind. I'm still having problems with MOH, though. Edit: Just curious, but would increasing the fan speed on the video card decrease the longevity of the card in any way? Edited January 30, 2008 by GrimeyAK Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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