Grafx Glitch

System Specs? Video Card Drivers?

Looks like you had some kind of video card issue...

AMD Duel Core (3600+)
2GB or RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
Driver Version: 94.24
Release Date: May 31, 2007

Sorry should probly had added that in the first place

hmmm , also were you in windowed mode or full screen ?

and is this the only time its happened?

Uh somthing else i left out... Looks like that power surge we had yesterday, did more damage then i fist thaught

Full Screan

Any issues with any other game?

I havent actuley played any other game yet. but ile let you know

get to it!

Nope So far no other games have given me any problems
Tried:
C&C3
Freelancer
X3: Reunion
and Homeworld 2

Have you been able to reproduce it in Sins more than just the one time?

Might have just been a "perfect storm" of stuff going wrong... just that one time.

Actuley, Only breefly but when i zoomed out all the way in to solarsystem view, i kinda appeared and then dissapered,

Aurora borealis?

I like the RL one better, this one look like a Commandor64 stile

Thats differently a hardware issue
Does it still happen?

That is definetly a Video Card or Driver error. I've had that with a faulty Video Card when it refused to intitialize Direct3D draw.

If it's a one time occurance for a brief time then it might've been a hiccup of sorts. If it happened during the power surge then that might be your explaination.

Or... your video card had a heart attack and the surge revived it.

Ok that creeps me out...

HAhahaha.. yeh, thats sorta what i was thinking, Ever since i had restarted the game i havent been able to make it happen again, I think it may have been one of thows one time things, nah the power surge was about 1 day before this

be careful, if your video card did come back to life, it might come out of its case and try to steal your breath while you sleep...

AHHH HELP ME!!!... MY VIDEO CARD IS TRYING TO KILL ME!!.. OW IT BURNT MY FINGER OFF... ><

hahahaha, Now wouldnt that be a sight to see.

wuuuaaaa... should i be afraid of my 8800GTX? i got a fealing its like an insane bear

heh... it steals money from your wallet when you sleep, as it feels you didn't pay enough for it.

ive actually seen that sort of glitch before on my pc... im pretty sure it happened cus i was stressing out the video card to much or something

i was playing the beta of lord of the rings online, now normaly with settings all on low that game lagged as well as gave low fps to my pc
on day i got curious and so i maxed out all the graphics settings on the game... boy was it pretty... anyway, it gave me about 1 fps with 3 seconds of lag, after about 15 mins in this mode i noticed a big patch of ground that looked jsut like that patch on your ship you have there

Huh... interesting, I did notice that my GPU temp was at 96o C no to long ago, (Threshold 125o C) So maby thats got somthing to do with it...

That's crazy hot at 96C...when it's under heavy load (like when playing a 3D game) it may exceed the 125C.

my gpu's max temp is around 78c

That looks like texture corruption on the skybox to me. Note that all the ships and trails and UI elements look fine. The only problem is that horizontal band around the skybox and one other section.

I had similar texture corruption on an older video card when I managed to get water on it. It worked fine otherwise for weeks, then died completely without warning. I also only got the texture corruption in one game (Company of Heroes).

So I would be concerned about whether some hardware component -- video card or maybe motherboard -- is on its last legs.

you should check and see if its full of dust