Ok, I posted that the game had an early release & I was in the process of installing... Well, I've spent the rest of the day trying to de-bug the damn thing. Don't know if it's the game, my system, or the drivers.

I have an AMD 1.3 w/ gf4ti 4200, 416mb ram, and a sblive 5.1 audio card, running windows 98se.

The demos ran fine. Lately the graphics have been getting buggy, & now the full version is unplayable due to "texture bleed". Dunno if that's what it's called, but the textures & lightmaps & stuff spike off the models, both character & environmental & go on to random points in space. It looks like everything is spikey & I can't see squat to play.

I've got the newest sblive audio drivers, the newest nvidia gfx drivers, directx 9.0b & nothing is helping. My windows start-up screen has black bars running vertically through it & the microsoft web troubleshooter tells me jack.

I had no problems until recently & I've even gone so far as to reformat & re-install EVERYTHING!

Can anybody help me out? PLEASE!
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painjunkie Wrote:I've got the newest sblive audio drivers, the newest nvidia gfx drivers, directx 9.0b & nothing is helping. My windows start-up screen has black bars running vertically through it & the microsoft web troubleshooter tells me jack.

That doesn't sound good . . . black bars in your start-up screen? Ouch.

Are you sure you're not trying to overclock anything, or messed with the memory timing settings of your video card? Corruption usually means your video card processor has been overclocked too much, or your video card memory timings are set too high.

If that's not it, then it could be any number of things. Since you've already done a fresh install, it at least eleminates that possibility . . . unless things were somehow not installed correctly. Are you using hacked drivers, or the official Detonators?

That's about all I can suggest right now.

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Let's hope it's a software problem, and Beuna Vista's tech support can help you.

Because your friend could be right, it does sound like your video card may be going bad.

Whoa, that's a pretty big deal, and I'm pretty sure that's not a game thing. Have you tried running other Direct3D games and seeing if they have problems too?

What your describing sounds eerily similar to artifacing problems that happen when you overclock. Even though your not overclocking, the same artifacing can be caused by permanent damage to the card (usually from a heat issue). I dunno, sounds like your card may be dying.

I would go into the Properties of the card where you can make changes and set the video card properties to use the Default settings and try it.

OK. So I've tried everything in the book from driver updates to re-installs to a complete re-format of the hard drive. After much frustration I just decided to shut the thing down and deal with it another day. Seems that may be all it needed. After a 24-hour period of restfullness, I started the system back up & everthing seemed fine. No black bars on the windows start-up screen, no texture rips in-game, nada. At least for the first 2 hours. Then it started to vex me again. Taking a note from a previous post referring to overclocking & temperature issues, I decided to shut the system down & let it cool off a bit. It locked up on the windows shut-down screen. After that was resolved & appropriate cool-down time was allowed for, the game worked just fine again. For about 2 hours. So I appear to have a temperature issue inside my case. I've checked all the fans, power supply, processor, board, case & graphics card. All appear in working and functional order. I can't determine the cause at this point, beyond the apparent temerature sensitivity. I can play with the case open & things seem to run fine. I just can't figure out why the problem could be occuring, especially now. I haven't altered configuration in at least 6 months, and no problems prior to this point. It's a stumper. So, video is now functioning properly. On the other hand, audio has decided to give me grief. There is an occasional static POP in environmental audio with no apparent cause. Drivers are all current & I am to the point where I really could just toss it in the river. Damn. Any further thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. As would a new computer. Crap. Thanks for all the help & suggestions to this point, gang.

Black bars in windows startup or any bars for that matter are almost always a problem with the video card itself. try this, remove your vid card and check for any visble damage like charing, dirty contacts, so forth. Clean the card connectors with an eraser on the end of a pencil and spray out your agp slot with compressed air. I've usually been able to git rid of that problem with those procedures unless the card was beyond repair. 1 more thing chk your agp voltage and make sure its not set to something extreme or too low. The bios on some mobo's dont always detect the correct voltage. for yout card anywhere from 1.65-1.75 should be okay. Hope that was helpful