Graphics Problem

[earl1937]

  Have HP computer, which has a ATI Radion HD 5450 grahics card. Have never had problem before tonight...keep getting message, diabling advace grahics, turn all off, and game still whites out, works intermit and I am lost....can anyone offer some suggestion?

[guncrasher]

this is gonna be funny but last night my 2 evga 465 video cards were acting up while playing wot.  when I asked around several other players were having problems too.

I wonder if the video cards have become self-aware and are rebelling against us.


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[Tinkles]

Haven't been able to get into AH since latest patch, shows video memory offline, but not online.  SO can't play due to 2 secs play 1 sec lag, rinse repeat.

Tinkles

 

[Rich46yo]

Almost all my video card problems have been repaired by a simple reseat of the card. And maybe a new driver download and/or roll back. The two monitor cables connected to the card always make subtle shifts to the seat.

I dont know if it will help you, it sounds like your issue is different. But every time I got a driver install warning a simple reseat fixed it.

[Bizman]

Almost all my video card problems have been repaired by a simple reseat of the card. And maybe a new driver download and/or roll back. The two monitor cables connected to the card always make subtle shifts to the seat.

I dont know if it will help you, it sounds like your issue is different. But every time I got a driver install warning a simple reseat fixed it.

Good advice. Looking inside the case is never harmful. Temperature changes twist joints and may loosen connections. Another thing to look for is dust. A clogged GPU cooler might not be able to do its job properly, especially during a midsummer heat wave. A laptop cooler is even more prone to cause all kinds of anomalies if it's filled with dust.

[Skuzzy]

Haven't been able to get into AH since latest patch, shows video memory offline, but not online.  SO can't play due to 2 secs play 1 sec lag, rinse repeat.

Tinkles

 

Your computer is suffering from resource exhaustion.  Check your PM's.

[earl1937]

Your computer is suffering from resource exhaustion.  Check your PM's.

Thanks for stepping in Skuzzy! I finally decided to delete the game from PC and re-download, now everything is great, once again! Question: Is there a way for the game to be corrupted by an outside virus? While trying to research my problem, I ran security scans and found several problems! I did not know that somehow, I had disabled the automatic scans, which AVG runs everyday, about 6 weeks ago. Is there anything else I can do to protect this game, which is the high light of my life now. 79, soon to be 80, 10% vis in left eye, 20/30 in right eye, so I am some what limited in my operational capabilities, but, having been a professional pilot all my life until 1998, learned to fly in 1948, and I would do what ever is necessary to keep my game up and running, so anything you can suggest would be GREATLY appreciated.

[guncrasher]

dont forget if you have lots of films saved up in your folder it may slow down ah a bit.


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[Bizman]

Earl1937, for maintaining your computer in good gaming condition, keeping it clean of all kinds of crap is vital, especially with a little slower rig. Fortunately the tools needed are free!

I'm more than a little skeptical about doing automatic scans, but they are better than forgotten scans. The tools that you'd need are (links to downloads):

• CCleaner for getting rid of all kind of temporary files your computer keeps collecting. It also has a Registry cleaner which is worth using after any update or removal of a program. It also has a detailed view of all things that run at startup. You can even set it to run the temp scat at every startup.
• an anti-malware scanner especially if feel like you're lost in the jungle of downloads. Malwarebytes' AntiMalware is a good one. Unfortunately the free version doesn't update itself automatically, nor make scheduled scans.
• defrag. Your files get fragmented over time due to the nature of Windows putting everything new into the nearest free slot until it gets full and continuing to the next slot. The Windows defrag utility will do well enough. Since Vista it can easily be scheduled. You'll find it in Programs>Accessories>SystemTools.

Microsoft has made a six step guide for making your computer faster. Just skip steps 5 and 6, they aren't as good as MS wants us to believe. Step 2, Disk Cleanup, is not as effective as CCleaner unless you do some deep geek tinkering with command line parametres and batch programming. The rest is quite easy-reading sound advice for all current Windows versions.