Extremely annoying graphics failure/error

dsnesnintendo

dsnesnintendo

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2006

chinese food

N/Mo

Whenever i play(and i mean every single time) and i minimize, expand, or sometimes nothing my screen turns yellow, the monsters turn yellow, my skills turn yellow(and blue for some reason) this has been happening for about a month now and has just recently gotton me pissed off as dungeons require alot of loading(new areas activate it also)



What ever help you can provide(if i need to reinstall please tell me how as im noobish at computacations and such) is needed

lordpwn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2007

R/

Looks like a faulty video card or a weird video driver bug. Have you seen this happen in any other recent game?

Also, listing your computer's specs in a post like this is generally a good idea. If you don't know them just run dxdiag (Start->Run...->type dxdiag in the field, press ok).

Vorianatriedes

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Neo Trinity Fighters

N/R

I have one question do you have a flat screen or one of the really big clunky old monitors? If so how long have you had your stone aged monitor? Because after abotu 3 - 5 years theyt begin to stop workign and it is characterised by exactly what you explained random colour changes which are mainly yellow. Bottom line if its as I said it is you need a new monitor when old one finally breaks down or before that if oyu cant stad the colour problems.

lordpwn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2007

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Vorianatriedes: Try making more sense. The image he posted is a screenshot and thus has absolutely nothing to do with the monitor.

frizz87

frizz87

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2007

in a crater

N/

I have exactly the same error, but my entire PC freezes up a bit after this happens, also, it doesn't happen when I load areas, it happens when I've been ingame for a while.

LATEST nVidia drivers and a 8800GTS

Vorianatriedes

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2007

Neo Trinity Fighters

N/R

Quote:
Originally Posted by lordpwn
Vorianatriedes: Try making more sense. The image he posted is a screenshot and thus has absolutely nothing to do with the monitor.
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Have you heard of something called a gaming monitor? Not all monitors are designed to show games liek GW perfectly forever. I still havent got a response on the age of his monitor yet.

Dex

Dex

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Chicago, IL

Black Belt Jones

R/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vorianatriedes
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Have you heard of something called a gaming monitor? Not all monitors are designed to show games liek GW perfectly forever. I still havent got a response on the age of his monitor yet.
No, what he's trying to say is that monitor problems don't show up in screenshots. Ever.

To be honest, that looks like your video card going bad or overheating.

Venomous Toxin

Venomous Toxin

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

America

Quote:
Originally Posted by Vorianatriedes
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Have you heard of something called a gaming monitor? Not all monitors are designed to show games liek GW perfectly forever. I still havent got a response on the age of his monitor yet.
He didn't take the picture with a camera. He hit the Prt Scrn key on his keyboard, thus it would take an internal screen capture of what the computer signal sees, not a monitor. A GPU transmits a signal. All a monitor is is a receiver. Thus, something weird is going off with his transmitted signal.