I was actually streaming at the time so I have a video of it. Read the video description for more details.
http://www.twitch.tv/elementality799/c/3306904
So I've had this problem once or twice before and restarting my computer seemed to fix it. I got it again today and it keeps happening after a few minutes of game play. Basically, the game will be running fine (my graphics card is pretty old so its running on pretty low settings) and then all of sudden the game will freeze for a second and then recover but the frame rate will have plummeted into the single digits and the texture quality will be absolutely horrible. Not even the lowest settings the game can possibly be set to will look this bad. Is this my graphics card crashing? or is it something else that's causing the problem? I'm getting a new card very soon so its no big deal if the card is the problem but I just want to make sure that the card is actually the problem here and not something else.
http://www.twitch.tv/elementality799/c/3306904
So I've had this problem once or twice before and restarting my computer seemed to fix it. I got it again today and it keeps happening after a few minutes of game play. Basically, the game will be running fine (my graphics card is pretty old so its running on pretty low settings) and then all of sudden the game will freeze for a second and then recover but the frame rate will have plummeted into the single digits and the texture quality will be absolutely horrible. Not even the lowest settings the game can possibly be set to will look this bad. Is this my graphics card crashing? or is it something else that's causing the problem? I'm getting a new card very soon so its no big deal if the card is the problem but I just want to make sure that the card is actually the problem here and not something else.