# Serious Video Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304 "2004-07-16T10:01:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304/1 "2004-07-16T10:01:51Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am having a serious video problem. In nearly every game, the graphics become all red and distorted after about 10 seconds, and the framerate drops to 1 or something. This happens in nearly every game that appears to be using DirectX - Generals, Far Cry, Renegade, Halo, …

I am using a GeForce FX 5200 128MB RAM graphics card. Now before you say update drivers and DirectX - I did. I have DirectX 9.0b and 56.72 nVidia drivers for WindowsXP, WHQL.

I’m desperate on what to do, I can’t play any of these fantastic games anymore ☹

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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304/2 "2004-07-27T00:14:46Z")

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Any updates? I found an amazing website on general graphics cards: [www.guru3d.com](http://www.guru3d.com)

Ask your question there, they’re experts! Plus, tons to learn, I just spent a few hours overclocking my graphics card. :thumb:

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**Author:** ![Voetsjoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ac91a4/32.png) [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304/3 "2004-07-27T08:48:56Z")

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Cool, I’ll do that ! Thanks for the link 🙂

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**Author:** ![Xero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Xero](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xero)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/116304/4 "2004-07-31T01:19:10Z")

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Try and update your AMD or Intel Chipset. You can also set your Pipelines to either 0 or 4 if red is appearing. I have a Radeon 9800 pro 256 and I had to download the intel chipset off of intels website to get my 8x AGP to work. Mabye this will help =/