Very strange things happen to my screen when i play.. Please help

terminator

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2006

W/Mo

13 Oct 2009 at 20:08 - 1
This is what happens occasionally whiling playing.
Ive played Guild wars for 4 years, and my laptop can easily run it.
I normally when this happens, i minimize GW, however when i don't the screen goes black and it says something about the driver has stopped responding.
If you know why this is happening i would appreciate it if you could let me know why

Here are the Screenshots.





Thank you.

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Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2008

Rubbing Potassium on water fountains.

LF guild that teaches MTSC (did it long ago before gw2 came out and I quit...but I barely remember)

N/A

13 Oct 2009 at 20:33 - 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by terminator View Post
normally when this happens, i minimize GW, however when i don't the screen goes black and it says something about the driver has stopped responding.
Just a guess but this leads me to believe it might be an issue with your graphics drivers and re downloading them might help O.o


Edit:
Ewww Sway

Edit Edit:
From Elder in response to another thread. If it really is your drivers this should work. Edited for universality.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Elder III View Post
go to www.3dguru.com and download their Driver Sweeper program (it's free) follow the directions on the site, including using it in Safe Mode. Then install the latest compatible Drivers from [fill in site for whoever makes your video card here] (which you have previously downloaded and saved on your computer). That should take care of it for you.

Snow Bunny

Snow Bunny

Alcoholic From Yale

Join Date: Jul 2007

Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]

13 Oct 2009 at 20:34 - 3
Your driver is dying I do believe

turbo234

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

WI

Mo/

13 Oct 2009 at 21:09 - 4
stop haxing the system

Rugar

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2009

13 Oct 2009 at 21:21 - 5
The time that this happened to me my video card was dying. It died completely within a week of this starting.

Rhadamanthys

Rhadamanthys

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

13 Oct 2009 at 22:32 - 6
yup, looks like your video card is dying. my cs:s looked kinda like this before my card got fried.

gremlin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2006

GWAR

Me/Mo

13 Oct 2009 at 22:54 - 7
Your video card may not be dying but it could be overheating.

If you hadn't mentioned it was a laptop I would have advised cleaning the processor fan and heat sink ditto the graphics card if it had one.

Do laptops get a terminal build up of dust just like normal pcs ?

E Q U I N O X

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2007

Florida

Doing Work [DW]

R/Mo

14 Oct 2009 at 00:06 - 8
reinstall your driver, I did it and now my laptop works fine. But what kind of computer do you have?

Elder III

Elder III

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jan 2007

Ohio

I Will Never Join Your Guild (NTY)

R/

14 Oct 2009 at 01:35 - 9
Post your system specs:

Monitor your system temperatures (everest.com has a free version of their software which will do that for you)

Post the temps.

If temps are in order, download latest drivers (do not install yet) then use Driver Sweeper form www.3dguru.com to delete old drivers in Safe mode, then install new drivers in normal mode.

If you still have trouble it may be your gw.dat file is corrupted and needs to be replaced with the "-image" command.

malevolence

malevolence

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

14 Oct 2009 at 11:12 - 10
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rugar View Post
The time that this happened to me my video card was dying. It died completely within a week of this starting.
Same here , that was like a warning , after a week or days stop working at all...