Bit of a long story here...but bear with me, please. I bought my 6800GT about 2 years ago, and it's worked fine the whole time I've owned it. About 6 months ago there was a power surge in my dorm and my motherboard was fried (Even though my PC was plugged into a surge protector). I just got around to replacing the motherboard a few weeks ago, and I was worried that other components wouldn't be working but everything started working great. I could play any game for any length of time and it would run perfectly. Recently, however, whenever I try to play a relatively modern game (Examples: HL2, STALKER, Command and Conquer 3, etc.), the game starts off fine, but as I progress, the display gets glitchier and glitchier until it is unplayable. It always starts off as just a bit of flickering here and there but after about 10-15 minutes I encounter massive artifacts and I'm forced to quit. This only happens in the game (That is, I don't get any glitchiness on my desktop or whatnot) and only new games. I've tried installing four different driver versions, and the problems persist. I thought my video card might have also been somewhat fried, but if that's true how can it always run the first 10 or so minutes of a game perfectly? This doesn't sound like the card itself is dying, since I'd imagine if that were the case I wouldn't be able to run anything after the first few tries. But then again, I'm not that knowledgeable in the subject. Thoughts? Notable specs: XP Home 1 gig (2 x 512) of Mushkin ram Biostar NF325-A7 motherboard AMD 64 3200+
huh, kinda sounds like a heat issue. But its all fine up until about 10 or so minutes then it pretty much just locks up or jumps every couple seconds or so
