Does it only happen in TT??

Hmmm I hate to say this but Nvidia graphics cards can be problematic. They make great hardware but crappy drivers. Their video card drivers are REALLY aggessive and at times dont allow enough cycles for anything else. They also steal some of the best IRQ's sometimes... Increase the amount of real memory would be the first step...also some chipsets get along better with nvidia agp than others...

Other suggestions:

Try decreasing resolution or colors to see if it fixes anything

Try another graphics card if possible (even a crappy one) for testing purposes

Try giving the TT process a higher priority

Quit all other applications u dont need

Does it do it during an offline game?

Make sure ur page file is not fragmented (if pc -> get a fragmentation report and look for a fragmented page file) this can cause all kinds of problems

Make sure at least some virtual memory is allocated (even if u have 3GB of RAM) some drivers and programs use a little regardless

More info if you have any other details to add

Hmm who is at the top of the player list..... Also read the comments at the bottom of the screenshots....

@ bolo the ppl on the players list are

-HankstaTanksta

-JJ

-Mars

-Sparklepony

-MajorPain

-nathan94

-Smokey

-Imp

@Major Pain.. My computer does this kinda thing with the newer games like Farcry the levels are totaly distorted and these walls of colour appear out of nowhere

@ snow. I can read myself but thanks!!

@ MP, man I tell you what 32mb of video memory just dont cut it. For best performance in any newer game get urself a card that has at least 128MB of DDR on board video memory. Saw one at walmart for 70 bucks the other day. This will give the other components in your system a break too.

If you are sharing onboard memory goto ur bios and increase the size to 64 and see what happens.

Also winxp is by far the best os but it is video memory hungry if u dont have a newer card. Goto system -> advanced -> perf settings -> and select all options that allow for greater performance. This should help.

Dont know how u play so well with that BS going on!!!

Bolo

Last edited: Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 5:49:56 PM

Thanks for your suggestions Bolo. I've been making changes in steps trying to find the cause of the problem. Kinda hard to nail it down as it doesn't happen consistently. Usually happens at the most inopportune moments... I've gone for up to two weeks with no problem & then for whatever reason it kicks in again. Getting a new video card would probably be the best solution but that's not gonna happen right away so I'll keep trying to chase down the problem & hopefully resolve it.

MP

I have an Nvidia TNT2 card, and I have the latest drivers, and I have never had this problem.

Have you "overclocked" your video card lately? That can do it.

(Yes, its possible :) )

Last edited: Monday, February 16, 2004 at 1:49:48 AM

Np pain. Yeah dont mess with overclocking cpu, ram, agp or anything unless u are really sure u know what ure doin. Good luck with it.

Take out any BS startup programs. Run adaware (trial its free) and kill all spyware. Run a regcleaner too might melp. I use registry first aid. Try restarting b4 u start playing.

Now, I have an nVidia and its not crap! I bought the GeForce FX 5600 XT it whoops anything! ATI cards are good too.

I had this very same problem on my dads IBM ThinkPad, it looked like Nate's snow texture gone wrong! Video card was the prob...

Oh, one more utilitie, FreeMem Standard. It frees up memory so its not so slow. My PC isint state of the art either, actully, I got this system free! Yup, my dads work was getting rid of them so he brought home two Dell Precision 420's one we put Linux on (450 MHz) and one is my windows PC (733 MHz) Stats:

-Dell Precision 420 Server 733 MHz

-NVidia GeForce FX 5600 AGP, DDR

-Brand new 19 inch Envision CRT

Ummm....,

Racer445

Last edited: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at 1:21:41 PM

Thanks for suggestions everyone. This may have been caused by a bad stick of memory, as other apps started having problems as well. They seemed to go away after removing the suspect DIMM & I haven't had any video problems since.