07 Dec 2006 at 15:23 - 15
I've experienced problems similar to this before as well. I haven't had the problem in awhile, but when I did, one of two things would happen. One of the things that would happen is that the ground of the area I am in would turn black. Because I believe the ground is on a different layer than things like grass, trees, etc., I would have the black ground but still see patches of grass. A lot of times, I had to restart GW because it was impossible to really know where you are going. The other thing that sometimes would happen is similar to the first post, except things like my Radar or some of the other things in interface areas would be blocked entirely white. I have screens for each type that I can add if anybody wants to take a look. I've been running my GW's on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop which has the ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 as far as video goes. Typically I don't have problems (except for occasional lag), but every once in a blue moon I experience something like this (or sometimes I will get the dreaded Blue Screen saying that "all my physical memory is being dumped" and it forces me to restart my computer). I think both problems above are related to video card rather than overheating because I use one of those "chill mats" or whatever they are called. Just thought I would share my information.