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Answer» Hi All , I am getting artifacts when playing Call of duty modern warfare 3, after about an hour playing it. I know its probably overheating.... it does not do this when I play Cod modern warfare (the first one). Can this be fixed or should I get a new card? I can spend about 200.00 dollors on one. But I need advice on what new card to buy, need something for gaming. any ideas?. Specs.....Widows 7 64 bit, Intel cor2 Duo Cpu [email protected] 3.00GHZ, 4.00GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce 9800gtx/9800gtx+ graghic card, Power supply Corsair HX620W,Nvidia 780i motherbored, Thanks.It may well be that the issue is your video card but before spending your hard earned money on another card run I would expect that the newest computers with the latest operating system ought to be able to handle any current game. When it comes to Video cards, the processing power required for basic desktop usage are far less than those required by a modern 3-D game. Also, the hardware utilization of the Graphics hardware while playing such a game is far greater than it is at the desktop, which can make issues more readily apparent, especially if that utilization results in overheating. BC,Your comments are well understood. However i would have EXPECTED that at the time of acquisition of this particular game the O/P would have verified this "The game compatibility criteria should indicate whether your equipment is capable of playing the game. Is there anything to indicate that it isn't?" Plus this was why "especially if that utilization results in overheating." i suggested the test did . Which from the results does not appear to be an issue. So aren't we back to my previous observation?truenorthIt doesn't matter whether the card meets the specs or not if it's defective. If a game doesn't use, say, Shader Model 4, than none of the hardware on the card is employed relating to that feature, so you don't see any issues, even if there are hardware issues with that circuitry. Same for many other FEATURES, Including video card memory. Graphics memory isn't filled by many games, but NEWER games will fill them "more" so if there are issues with the Graphics memory in higher addresses, newer games will see issues whereas older ones will not; etc.Gotcha. But if the O/P is actually dealing with a defective graphics card and taking into consideration my earlier comments re the "newness potential" of the computer then perhaps a warranty issue comes into play here.truenorth P.S. I guess at this point to relate to this possibility we need a return of the O/P. |
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