flashing lots/graphic errors in neighborhood view
Mado:
Thats happening to me too :( Unfortunately, I don't have enough $ to buy a whole new graphics card so I guess I'll just have to live with it...
Tenshii~Akari:
Same here as of a few months ago. I have ATI Mobility Radeon X1300, and as of now it's officially old. I guess my video card is about to die, also... :icon9:
I know for me, most of the red flashing, blue screens, and glitchy graphics was due to lack of memory and space at one point, but it happens more frequently than I'd like it to.
Xylune:
Update: I bought the card, tried it out and found that no matter what game I try to play, the monitor shuts down without notice. I just got a new powersource put in, which is 450w. I sent the card back and they sent me another of the same type, and I still had the shutdown issue...so I had to put my old card in and accept spending $250 on a card that won't run in my machine.
Now, I have looked over and looked over the specs and my system, shared the info with friends and updated every bloody thing I could think of, including the chipset and sound drivers. I made sure to remove all lingering ati drivers before installing the new card and matching drivers. I tried downloading and installing older drivers, thinking that perhaps the newest one was buggy. My system was not overheating, the card was not overheating.
I have a theory and I want to ask the tech savvy people here if it could be possible. While browsing a World of Warcraft forum, I found a thread discussing crashes and errors. Someone in there said that sometimes if there's a lack of power, the computer will "black screen" (which is what mine was doing with the new card). They said that even if you have a 450w power supply, the strength of the "12 volt rail" might not be sufficient to deliver that power where needed.
Because of this nugget of information, I'm wondering if my 450w power supply is to blame because of a weakling 12 volt rail. We bought the most affordable 450w we could find because I needed a new power supply fast. Is it possible that by purchasing a more expensive high-end brand of power supply, I'll solve my "black screen" issues with the new card?
I've been trying to play on my old card but the game is so unstable that I've resorted to playing on my laptop. Half of the time when playing on my desktop, if I try to save the game, it bluescreens or crashes and brings up an error report. The laptop handles the game fine except that it doesn't like some clothing and hair meshes and puts weird spikes and lines in them, and some of the bigger houses lag more on the laptop than they would on my desktop computer.
ancienthighway:
You might try stepping backwards on the drivers for that new card. Many problems with video cards and TS2 are resolved by using older drivers. While this is an issue mostly with NVidia cards and drivers, it could be an issue with the latest ATI cards and drivers also.
If that doesn't work it could be related to the power supply or delivery, although 450 w should be ample to drive your system.
caffeinated.joy:
A 12 volt rail is more than sufficient. It's what I've got and I've never had a problem. Before I did my upgrade, I was running my system on a 450 w power supply with a 12 volt rail with no worries.
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