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magicbush   11-16-2009 at 07:26:37 PM

Hey, I have just recently noticed that while playing a game after about a hour it will crash(this goes for a graphic intensive game like Dragon Age or Company of Heroes). After crashing to the desktop it will then act strange, I can no longer get back into anything that has 3D effects/graphics until I restart the PC. Games like Eve Online, and graphically light don't seem to crash after playing a few hours. If I try to get back into Dragon Age(before restarting) it pops up a error about "Could not find a suitable Video card" or if I try to load any other game(even flash sites on Firefox) it will artifact bad or show purple lines where the graphic is.

Just trying to confirm the issue here, I am pretty sure it's the video card is just going bad(which I have a lifetime warranty on as it's a EVGA).

EVGA GTX 260
AMD Phenom II X3 720 CPU(OC'd to 3.19GHZ)
4gb DDR2 800(OC'd to around 926)
Win 7 Ultimate x64

Thanks for any information!


Message edited by magicbush on 11-16-2009 at 07:27:39 PM
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jay2tall   11-16-2009 at 07:38:23 PM

I would start with the latest drivers and monitoring the temps of your card using a utility like Riva tuner or something that give you an On Screen Display while gaming. Record your idle temps and then in game temps. If it is overheating you can either return the card or try reapplying paste on the cooler. If it is not overheating and the drivers are updated, most likely it is the card itself.

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KidHorn   11-16-2009 at 07:47:20 PM

It might be a software error. Maybe Direct X is crashing and when you restart the game, it's linking with a bad instance of the DX dll's. After a crash, go to task manager and see if instances of DX are runnning. If they are, kill them and then try starting the games. I don't know the name of the DX process, but you can probably google it and find out.

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HundredIslandsBoy   11-16-2009 at 08:26:30 PM

I don't think it's hardware. My GTX 260 would do the same on CoH but not on any other 3D game. I can't remember exactly but I think a patch fixed the problem. Are you using the trainer (cheat hack) program for CoH because the problems occurred more often when that was running in the background.

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