Need Help

[malaber]

Okay so here is the problem. After I have been playing Call of Duty 2 for a while the pixels start to get large. At first just a few around the screen, then the picture usually starts to break down, then I am left with a screen that is completely ****ed. If I am fast enough I can hit esc key, quit the game and get back to the desktop without any problems. Other times I have to reboot the computer. The bigger problem is that sometimes the picture becomes unstable when I am running other non-gaming applications...works, AOL...


I have sent a few pictures taken of the screen so that you can get a better understanding of how the picture breaks down. http://www.sonic.net/~malaber/suxor.jpg
http://www.sonic.net/~malaber/fup.jpg

As for the video card is an : ATI Radeon 9550 AGP
Internal DAC(400Mhz)
256Mb

The Monitor Samsung Syncmaster 730B(analog)
Refresh rate 60 hertz

[smurfy]

That does not look healthy but I don't think it's a COD2 problem.

What version of the ATI Catalyst driver are you using?
Can you tell us a bit more about your PC - motherboard & CPU & RAM.
Is Windows using the model-specific driver for your monitor or is it detected as "plug-n-play" or "default monitor"?

[malaber]

I am using the latest ATI driver. I updated the monitors driver as well.. The CPU its self is a hp AMD 3000+
http://www.sonic.net/~malaber/specs.jpg

[smurfy]

I wonder if this is heat related?
Can you install Everest Home edition:
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/download/file/everest-home-edition
and look under Computer>sensor and tell us what it is reporting for your temperatures and fan speed immediately after booting up the PC from a period of time turned off. (i.e. at it's coolest).

Then Run COD2 for a while until it starts corrupting and quit out and run Everest again and compare temps.