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Title: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: W7LPNRICK on April 22, 2012, 11:27:38 PM

occasionally, if the game or program I'm running lowers automatically for any reason, there are grey shaded diagonal lines across the screen...is this anything to worry about? They go away if i close the program.  :headscratch:

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: BaldEagl on April 23, 2012, 12:20:20 AM

Sounds like your video card might be starting to fail.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: Torquila on April 23, 2012, 04:11:53 AM

Maybe, or it might be bad drivers or a really old card that isn't fully compatibile with the latest drivers.

The fact that it only occcurs after the "alt-tab" sort of minimization/maximization routine means its probably bad programming somewhere. If you were to have it occur in-game or during "normal" operation, it would totaly be the hardware.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: Skuzzy on April 23, 2012, 06:32:32 AM

If this was the computer that the power supply failed on, that failure probably damaged the video card and you are starting to see the results.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: olds442 on April 23, 2012, 08:00:01 AM

you broke it.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: W7LPNRICK on April 23, 2012, 11:06:19 AM

Quote from: Skuzzy on April 23, 2012, 06:32:32 AM

If this was the computer that the power supply failed on, that failure probably damaged the video card and you are starting to see the results.

That's what I figured...Oh Crap!

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: Reschke on April 23, 2012, 11:11:25 AM

Also just try to revert back to your last set of video card drivers. I had some lines that were showing up online last week and I was getting some error messages that indicated bad drivers on the video card. So I rolled back to last good configuration and lines have disappeared.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: Skuzzy on April 23, 2012, 11:14:00 AM

Quote from: Reschke on April 23, 2012, 11:11:25 AM

Also just try to revert back to your last set of video card drivers. I had some lines that were showing up online last week and I was getting some error messages that indicated bad drivers on the video card. So I rolled back to last good configuration and lines have disappeared.

Yes, always a possibility and the first thing to try.

Title: Re: Lines accross windows screen
Post by: W7LPNRICK on April 29, 2012, 02:02:57 PM

Quote from: Skuzzy on April 23, 2012, 11:14:00 AM

Yes, always a possibility and the first thing to try.

I rolled back the driver and found an update that was way after the driver which came with the disk & it seems to be fixed.  :cheers: