# Serious Video Problem **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [July 16, 2004, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811 "2004-07-16T10:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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/57811/1 "2004-07-16T10:01:51Z")
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 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/2 "2004-07-16T11:06:43Z")
Do OpenGL games like Half-Life work? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/3 "2004-07-16T11:26:11Z")
Let me check on that … I just ran DxDiag again, and tested Direct3D - and the same distortion occured in the testing application (you know, the rotating cube with the DirectX logo). So it pretty much has to have to do something with Direct3D. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/4 "2004-07-16T11:31:59Z")
After the game crashed has occured, they don’t work. Before the crash, they do. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/5 "2004-07-16T12:55:49Z")
If it’s the latest nVidia drivers you have there, roll back one, if it’s not the latest, upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/6 "2004-07-16T14:31:06Z")
Voets - does the problem occur immediately after you turn on your computer or after you have left your computer running for a while. It may also be a cooling problem. Those artifacts (big blocks that go around the screen when doing 3D) happened to me when my graphics card got overheated. If you want, get a can of compressed air and blow all the dust out of the graphics card’s fan and other areas. You may want to update to the latest beta nVidia drivers (62.11 I think). It may work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/7 "2004-07-16T15:17:40Z")
It doesn’t occur until I a game that uses DirectX has been running about 10 to 20 seconds, mostly when I’m in a menu. Now that you say it … it might very well be a cooling problem. It doesn’t happen until a game has ran for a short time. In that time it might have overheated. My graphics card has a passive cooler, that could be the cause of the overheating. Are the latest drivers 62.11 ? The latest one I found for WinXP was 56.72, but I’ll search it up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/8 "2004-07-16T15:18:40Z")
I have the exact same videocard and I dont have any problems, but I havent updated my drivers for a long time :P, maybe thats your problem…the new drivers… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/9 "2004-07-16T15:31:57Z")
I tried a previous driver - didn’t work. I tried installing SP1 - didn’t work. I tried reinstalling DirectX - didn’t work. I tried reinstalling the latest driver - didn’t work. How on earth do I fix this problem ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/10 "2004-07-16T15:54:52Z")
Remove the card, clean it, reseat it, ask nVidia? I don’t think you can rollback DirectX though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/11 "2004-07-16T16:02:06Z")
It pretty much has to be, because if it were overheating indeed, then the rest of the graphics should also be messed up, but it’s only DirectX, nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/12 "2004-07-16T17:12:52Z")
Have you contacted nVidia? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/13 "2004-07-16T17:21:51Z")
No … should I bother them for this ? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/14 "2004-07-16T17:23:36Z")
Why not? You paid money for their product, why not bother them to get some support? MS won’t give a rat’s \*\*\* about Direct X issues, so nVidia is your only option, if they turn you to MS, then you got a problem. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/15 "2004-07-16T17:31:00Z")
Ok, I’ll contact them 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/16 "2004-07-16T17:34:05Z")
Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/17 "2004-07-16T20:34:13Z")
I had a similar problem with my laptop. When you are browsing the web, using Windows, etc. your graphics card doesn’t do a lot of processing. Only when you start getting into the full screen 3D games does your card actually start processing a lot of data that cannot normally be done by your main CPU. I think Windows and other 2D apps don’t force your computer to use your graphics card for processing graphics data. DirectX and OpenGL are the exact opposite. They try to send all of their data directly to the graphics card for processing. That could be why you see the artifacts in DX-based games. Also, I prefer using the nVidia beta drivers. The beta drivers include fixes to current issues that the official drivers may not address. I’m currently using 62.11 on another comp, and I downloaded them only a few days ago from: [http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=22252&category=main](http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=22252&category=main) Cheers! Kirupa :ub: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/18 "2004-07-17T07:26:44Z")
I’ll try it out Kirupa, thanks 🙂 I couldn’t contact nVidia, because after all they don’t make the cards. So I guess I’ll have to contact Creative, or better yet - reinstall the card with the driver that originally came with it. While reading through the backside of the box, I noticed this: DirectX and S3TC texture compression That might also be the cause, because mostly it’s the textures that screw up. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/19 "2004-07-17T08:40:11Z")
Ok … so I installed the original Creative drivers, plus an update to support DirectX 9 (or so it says), and now the games completely freeze the computer. The only thing that works is a cold reset. Help ! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811/20 "2004-07-17T12:19:20Z")
Okay, try this. I can’t think of it at the top of my mind, but change your graphic card settings to Full Acceleration, if it’s already there, drop it down notch by notch and test between each. Or, turn your computer off overnight, wait until it’s cooled to room temperature. Then, turn it on and load a game that crashes immediately to see if it’s a heat problem. Or, change your desktop resolution to the same of the game, then run it. Or, shove it into another computer and see if it works. Or, read the last post here: [http://www.qdi.nl/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.pl?board=vga;action=display;num=1052908806](http://www.qdi.nl/cgi-bin/bbs/YaBB.pl?board=vga;action=display;num=1052908806) [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serious-video-problem/57811.md?page=2)