Date: 04/20/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

I have a 256 MB BFG NVIDIA Gforce 5700LE OC(overclock) video card. While playing Neverwinter Nights, Warcraft 3, Sims 2, etc. I get these strange bands of odd colored pixels. I am running these games at full tilt bells and whistles in the games, but I've tried various combos of lower FX settings and I still get the bands (sometimes it's static like noise). They might be showing up on the edges of polygons, can't really tell (games have such good blending these days!). I think it MIGHT be that the card is getting hot (don't have a temperature reading).

BTW, My PC has a 2.4 Ghz P4 with 768 MB of RAM. I have the LATEST NVIDIA and DirectX drivers.

I'm a competent user, but I plead ignorance on the gaming tech as I have been a long time console person and I'm only now switching to PC games.

These games are pretty old and I would assume my rig should be pretty capable of running them cleanly, but alas...Any advice would help.

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