My computer is on LSD

[akaM2]

Is my computer on LSD or is my video card dieing?

 

 

[stutters]

looks fine to me. maybe you're on LSD.

[discom]

I can't say what is causing your problem, but i have the same exact issues when i use cheats

[mookie]

Looks like heat on the GPU to me.

[dwEEziL]

HACKER!!!!

[mohawk]

if you're computer is saying shaft killed mohawk, then yes, definitely on something..

[anonymo]

Pretty sure sharing a beer with your puter was a bad idea.

[ZesteR]

mookie said it already.

 

heat on the GPU.

I get that when I game for long hours on my laptop. (Where heat is an issue)

 

At first I thought it was the bad video drivers for vista, so I updated them, but sometimes still get the problem.

[Laz.e.rus]

Mine does that when its too hot. I jsut cycle the fan up to the next level and it goes away instantly.

[anonymo]

Mine does that when its too hot. I jsut cycle the fan up to the next level and it goes away instantly.

That or your fan knows how to get itself more juice...

[Sgt. Slaughterâ„¢-TopBrass]

I would agree with mookie on this, its probably heat related. Take the side of your case off and put a house fan on it and see if it comes back. It just might be dust build up on the heatsink fins.

[aldan]

Yeah, those dust blowers are a good idea. Dust tends to really insulate the heat-producing parts of your computer, which means that the heat can't escape and will continue to build up... In any case, due to dust, I had a previous computer catch fire, which destroyed it. Of course, the fact that the dust was mixed with small amounts of drywall dust and sawdust probably didn't help any. In any case, I'd suggest that you go in, unplug your monster and then suck/blow the dust out of there (I'd suggest using a mechanical device, but if you, yourself, blow hard enough, it might work, or, for that matter, if you really suck...).

[dwEEziL]

"Well (he) certainly does...suck"

[ilovetomatoes]

Ditto to all them. I had the fan on my GPU die on me, and I got that for a little while before it died all together.

[dragonfly]

Yep, GPU and heat. If you let it go long enough it will never stop doing that even when it's cool (like my 7900GTX did).

 

Time for an upgrade!

[Preacher]

if you take LSD then it'll look normal again

[anonymo]

if you take LSD then it'll look normal again

I hear slamming your head with the fridge door every time you grab a beer is the same as LSD.

[Laz.e.rus]

not true.

You get the tracers, but thats about it.

And the effects don't last as long.

[TheGeek]

I've seen this before. Forcing directx 7 will do this.

[Allanon]

I think you need moar dots

[monthos]

As was already said, check the cooling of your GPU. I had the exact artifacts when I used to OC my videocard core too much. This was on a radeon card, and the results are exactly what your pics showed. For the record those occurred with a core frequency too high, but texture corruption(halflife likes to make pixels of textures purple) occurs with too high video memory clock.