Graphics Problem..

Since yesterday ive been having graphics problems with my computer.
I first noticed it when playing GW. All of a sudden things started to go blurry, but only certain parts of the game screen (Chat box, Skill bar etc.) So i tried closing and reopening the game. Still the same, but the blurr had moved. It wasnt on the skill bar or chat, but now on the mini map, district selecter and such.


This got me confused, i tried changing the graphics preferences.. still there. I tried reinstalling GW.. again, its not going away!! I thought it must be the hardware. So i updated the driver. Load up GW and its still there. Now i notice that its blurring the log in screen and character selection...

I decided to leave it and go play another game.. and that too was blurry. By this point im starting to get very angry and even more confused.

This has never happened before and i havent installed or changed anything before i updated the video driver after this problem started. Help Please

One of two things>

A). Your graphics card is overheating and is causing tearing/artifacting. This could cause a blur. Check your graphics card teps.

B). Your graphics card (GPU) has been damaged by heat or electric discharge and some section of the rendering engine or post processor has been handicapped or completely destroyed. Replace card.

Two things I need to know:

1). Stats of your system. CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics card. If you do not know these, please give me the Make and Model (M&M) of your computer.

2). if you know your current temps on the system devices (aka GPU, CPU, internal case, northbridge) pls tell those also.

Intel Pentium 4 / 3.00GHz

510MB RAM

Ati Radeon x550


Its a basic set up, but it works ;p . Im not sure if that everything you asked but if it helps its a Dell Dimension 4700.

Oh, and how would i go about checking temps?
(Sorry, im not good at knowing these things)

Another thing that I just thought about while looking over your post. Do you have a LCD monitor or a CRT monitor. The CRT monitors need periodic DeGausing through their own menu's. Not doing this can cause the symtoms that you are experiencing also especialy in the corners. By degausing your monitor you are removing the effects of magnetism on your monitor, which is cause by something (unshielded speakers too close to the monitor) that has or outputs a high amount of magnetic radiation. LCD monitors can be affected the same way on occasion. To degause your monitor open its menu then find the little icon that eother says degause or choose the option to degause. If that doesnt work then I agree your video card may be on the way to video card heaven.

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