What The Hell Is This!?

How do I fix it?! T__T
I was just playing and then it starts doing this.
Come back to it the next day and now it's doing it on the intro screen.

Wow, thats, ummm...creepy.

Is it only the video that is broken or is it also the sound? And what about that program running next to Guild Wars at the bottom, maybe it is interfering with the game. It also seems like the game is stuck between in-game and the main Windows page.

Sorry couldn't have been more help, I'm not much of a techie but I'm just throwing out some ideas to try and help you.

Your videocard is overheating or busted

Yep it does look like something is seriously wrong with the card. But it could as well be a corrupted video driver, try a clear driver uninstall from the control panel, reboot then install a new fresh driver (nvidia or ati?) and see if that will work.

Falling that check the card itself if the onboard fan still working, if not replacing the fan might fix it. If the worst come, you can sent it back to repair if it still validate. Lastly get a new card.

Your worst case scenario would be if the agp/pci-e slot on the mainboard itself is damage.

Your video card is dead. Hope it's under warranty. My cursed 7900GT started doing that (among other things) right before I had to RMA it.

Downloading a Forceware update for my NVIDIA card.
Hoping that updating the graphics driver will fix the prob rather than buying a new card.
Thanks guise. Will update as to whether the update works <3

vid card dead..

but that pic pwns the internet!

Ive had the same issue on an old video card. the problem was never resolved. Its not driver related thats for sure.

From my experience, your video card is either overheating or is damaged

from my experience photoshop ftw or lcd cracked not problems of video card... The video card does not burn the monitor/lcd. It seems no a deformed image due to video card overheating

Qft!
Also, make sure your monitor is plugged in tight/correctly. My monitor was giving me bs intil i found out that my cable wasnt in tight.

Well it happened to me (video card overheated - nVidia 5700 )

Went and got a replacement card till I got a new one, and it was an ATI 7000

Shit. That's exactly what I have, NVIDIA 5700.
Maybe they don't like GuildWars?


Updating the Driver didn't work. My Dad has "no idea" as to how to fix it, meaning he doesn't care (stupid computer techie.)
I really don't want to have to pay for a new video card!!! T__T
Meanwhile, the computer claims that "this device is working properly."

Try here http://www.pricewatch.com/video_cards/ see if theres one you like. Video cards arent too expensive for a good one now.

Me too and I had to get a new one, mine heated. My desk is in a cabinet that can be closed (cats) and I was leaving the computer on for extended periods with it closed. I don't do that anymore.

Squalus, you don't think he would have noticed if his monitor was cracked? No, it doesn't burn, but it does over heat.

Afraid that's a sign of doom regarding your video card.

My nVidia FX 5700 died just like that, I was able to limp along for a while by lowering the resolution and color depth but it got worse and worse over time (2 weeks).

Currently have Radeon x1300 and am very happy because it was affordable and a nice upgrade from my old card.

Alright

Disregarding prices, what's the best video card?
Best brand?

May as well get something pretty spec. It'll be my money I'm spending, and not my parents

8800ultra sli will be the best card disregarding price, and each is north of $600 dollars

Care to give us some specification of your motherboard, and what chipset and what CPU you are using? and whether your motherboard supports AGP or PCI-Express? As much info as possible helps people here give you an idea of what is the best graphics card you can get. Your budget would help too. Does that only happen in GW or all the time (the first picture I mean) and when and how does it happen?

8800gtx

The 8800 ultra is better, but the extra 10% performance it gives isn't worth the extra money, not like you will notice it in GW anyway.

Technically, the 8800 Ultra Superclocked is the fastest, faster then the Ultra. Now I believe you can get the 8800 Ultra black pearl edition from EVGA thats clocked faster then the 8800 Ultra Superclocked, but it comes with a VGA water block, not a fan, so you need a water cooling system as it was ment to be used.

I love EVGA products, you pay a bit more for them, but they are the fastest

I actually had something like this happen to me only once when I was in the wurms the animation got all screwy but not as bad as yours

Considering the 8800 series of card is available only for PCI-Express, I do not think it will work. The 5700 series of card is AGP 4/8X only. The highest end he could do is an over-priced 8600 series. That said, I would advise a 7900 or 7950.
As for the issue it self, I had the same thing happen myself. It turned out that the cooling fan had locked up. I would check the fan, if it is locked up, you may be able to save the card by replacing the fan. If it spins freely, do a power test, if the fan fails replace it. If it rotates, replace the card.
As for what card to get, anything with 12 or more pixel pipelines will work fine. In this case, the more the better.
As you are using Vista, the DX10 capabilities of the 8600 may be worth checking into even if the performance is just below the 7900 series.

Edit: Spelling errors.

video card = overheating.

if your overclocked, return to normal.

if your at normal, underclock it a bit (lets face it GW isnt exactailly vid card intesive)

also, if your having a heat wave where u are it just might be that

also, try cleaning inside ur case. dust prevents heat dissapation.

Just get a 7600 GS AGP for a little under 100$. I have a 7600GT and it runs GW fine.

First of all, that's exactly what heat and overvoltage damage to a GPU looks like. Second, a cracked monitor doesn't show up in a screenshot.

Yup, either your video card is overheating badly or it's already damaged. If you can't RMA it get a new one.

or get a regular 8800gtx and download rivatuner for free, and superclock it yourself ;D

but i digress, from the sounds of it your computer wont handle anything above the high end AGP geforce 7 cards, I recommend one of those.

with everyone here talking about Geforce i have only 3 letters to say.

A. T. I.

Well, I like ATI too, but in this case I have to agree with the previous posters. The 8800GTX and Ultra are the fastest (best in speed, not necessarily features) GPUs on the market. nVidia's DX9 AGP products are generally better than ATI's as well, although the x1600 and even the x800/x850 are good alternatives.

Your logic is undeniable, but exceedingly necessary.

ok, explain this then.

the origional Xbox used a modified Nvidea chipset for video, because it was the best on the market at the time.

the Xbox 360 uses a modified ATi board for graphics.... for lower cost? i dont thinkz so.

also, you have to keep in mind a few things. first ATi held back a bit to release a D3d10 card, because they wanted to do it RIGHT. whereas nvidea just tossed it out immedieatly. i bet once we get solid d3d10 apps, a test of the ATi HD2600 vs the geforce 8800 will show the ATi card to be more solid.

also, the x1950 is supposed to be a competitor for the 8400 series (i think i dont know nvidea series codes well) and most people forget that... and compare the 8800 and the x1950... leading to very skew'd results.

D'OH Double Post!

Well, the xbox vs xbox 360 comparison is irrelevent. Microsoft's decision to use one graphics chip or another has to do with a lot more than what is the best tech on the market at the time. In fact, it probably has very little to do with that. You're talking about design decisions involving hardware compatibility, GPU features, etc. You're also talking about business decisions that have to do with availability and the two companies' abilities to come to an agreement about cost and volume. The xbox 360's GPU performs just a little under a x1900. It's less complex than an x1900, but it gets a bit of a boost because of its unified memory architecture. Now I do believe that the x1900/x1950 was the best GPU design of that generation of GPUs, but that was LAST generation, and the 8800's are THIS generation. A lot can happen in a generation. ATI's x2X00 parts aren't measuring up nearly as well to nVidia's 8X00 parts in general, although the x2900xt is a darn nice GPU for the price.

If you actually do some reading about ATI's DX10 offerings, they were not delayed because they were trying to "do it right". ATI even admits that they flat-out had major problems getting their design to final silicon. Overall, the x2900 isn't a huge success for them. In fact, the price/performance ratio for the x2900xtx part was so bad that they couldn't get any oem partners to pick it up for card manufacturing. That's why you only see x2900xt parts and no x2900xtx parts. They were a design/fab failure.

The x1950 is not positioned to be a competitor to the 8800. I should know -- I own one. It's positioned against the 7950 parts (which it beats handily in many areas). The x1950 is just re-processed version of the x1900, allowing it to attain higher core clockspeeds. It's pretty much the same core that was designed WAAAAAAY before the 8X00 series existed. The x1950 is faster than any of the 8400 or 8600 parts, but the 8800GTS and 8800GTX beat it in most games. There are a few games that the x1950 beats the 8800GTS in framerates at very high resolutions, though. Still, they're just not evenly matched.

All I can tell you is to take a look around at some benchmarks around the web. In no way is the x2900xt up to snuff with the 8800GTX or 8800Ultra. This may improve with better drivers from ATI, but at the moment it simply cannot take the performance crown from the 8800GTX/Ultra.

Now, if I were buying a video card right now I would probably buy a x2900xt because it performs a bit better than a 8800GTS, is much cheaper than a 8800GTX, produces better image quality, and has better shader feature support than the 8800's. However, if you're buying based on pure framerate numbers the 8800GTX and 8800Ultra are tops. If you look at the numbers you can't really question that. However, for some people (like me) framerate isn't always king. I like my FP16 blends with MSAA, and ATI still produces the only consumer gaming parts that have displayed that capability.