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I've got a Dell Inspiron 9100, and am having serious gaming problems. Games run but with graphical problems. Resulting in them looking as bad as the shot below. The system is more than capable of running the games, such as Pro Evo 4 and 5, and Gun, with a 256mb Graphics card, 1gig of ram, windows XP Pro, 3.4Ghz P4. The motherboard and GPU were replaced last week and no improvement has been seen. I have reinstalled the games numerous times, changed drivers from the normal Dell one's to Omega drivers, and even installed XP. Dell are claiming there is not a problem with the GPU as it was just replaced, but I'm not so sure. Can anyone shed any light on this problem. Thanks.
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it looks broken :(
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new graphic card...
this happened to my desktop computer, where your brown shapes where black on my screen. Got a new ati graphic card and all is fixed. Also, noted that the company that built my computer had the exhaust fans backward causing overheating.
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Looks to me that there is some problem either with the GPU memory or GPU itself. Now it really bothers me that the mainboard and the gpu was changed? Have you tried directx 9.0c reinstallation? Does it happen both in directx and opengl games? Does it happen immediately? How about dxdiag 3d test? Can you see the cube without problems?
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Sorry i'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to comps but not GPUs, sorry, but I'll try as best as I can. When playing pro evo the game loads fine, but often the menu's can be distorted. Sometimes not. But the graphics almost always are. Sometimes worse than others. Oddly the dxdiag 3d test was fine. Now downloading 9c reinstalation so i'll let you know about that. Could you give me an example of an opengl game please and i'll let you know about that too. Thanks, Liam
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Doom 3 is an OpenGL game - just download the Demo, see how that works.
You have serious artifacting, I'm thinking that the GPU's memory is flawed.
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Ok, thanks. Think i've got the full game somewhere so i'l hava look and get back to you
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it could be part of an overheating problem. i have seen it in desktop GPU's alot. also, if a person overclocks a desktop gpu too much, itll look like that. the golden rule i have learned from desktops is this..
if it looks like spikes shooting out from the vertices - its the GPU
if it looks like the fill of the textures is going crazy colors, its the memory.
in your case, i'll toss it to either another bad GPU or some sort of overheating.
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I've not overclocked the gpu at all so it's not that, could be overheating but this problem is a new one, which emerged when my motherboard initially broke and has persisted since it has been replaced.It could be due to fan problems but when running I8kfanGUI it says my core temp is 61-62 degrees, which I don't believe is particularly hot but i may be wrong
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The above graphical problems were from Pro Evo 4, here's a shot from pro evo 5. The problems are less but still there. Oddly the players are fine, but the power bars are the bottom are missing, and the team scores incorrect too. Any ideas? Now downloading the Doom demo, couldn't find the disc so i'l post when I get some shots of that running