Last night was playing Final Fantasy XI and suddenly the entire display became all garbled and corrupted and was flashing a horrible mess of random colours and pixels (sorry for the lame description). I was able to make out a portion of the chatlog but apart from that nothing. I logged out of the game and whilst the Windows display was more viewable there were a lot of pixels on screen that were clearly wrong. I restarted but even during bootup there were blocks placed at even spaces on the screen that were out of sync.
I left it overnight and everything was fine this morning but about 20 minutes in on FFXI again and the same problem occured. Again shut it down for a while and it's fine but the problem returns. It takes longer to return when not in a GFX intenssive program but even in Windows, over time, pixels will display incorrectly and eventually strips of colour will form down the screen.
My thought is that the problem could be overheating but would like more information from the more computer-minded on the forum.
Oh, it's a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
I left it overnight and everything was fine this morning but about 20 minutes in on FFXI again and the same problem occured. Again shut it down for a while and it's fine but the problem returns. It takes longer to return when not in a GFX intenssive program but even in Windows, over time, pixels will display incorrectly and eventually strips of colour will form down the screen.
My thought is that the problem could be overheating but would like more information from the more computer-minded on the forum.
Oh, it's a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
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