I recently bought an XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 DDR3 512MB graphics card from eBay for £36. I was on a tight budget and only wanted to play games such as Half Life 2, Battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, COD 4 etc.
Ever since installing the graphics card with the latest drivers on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Service Pack 1, I've been getting these strange in game glitches. Where everything turns from 3D into 2D and these strange pixels appear on the screen.
Here's a screenshot I took of the Half Life 2 menu screen (Big Image) - http://i.minus.com/iomIf580qzdtj.bmp
After a while the game will either stay the same or crash to the desktop, every setting on the game is maxed out, 16X AA, max resolution etc.
When it exits back to the desktop, every so often these strange pixels appear in different places all over the screen.
Here's my full system specifications, including hardware and peripherals...
Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ 2.10GHz (Not Overclocked)
Graphics Card - XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 512MB DDR3 (Version 285.58 Driver)
Motherboard - ASRock N68C-S UCC (BIOS Version 1.60)
RAM - 2GB (2 X 1GB) DDR3 677MHz (Unbranded)
Hard Drive - Seagate 160GB SATA
DVD Drive - LG DVD R/W Ultra Speed
PSU - Alpine 500W
Monitor - Hanns G HX191D 19" (DVI Cable)
Keyboard - Compaq PS/2 Wired
Mouse - Labtec USB
Windows has the latest updates, I have Avast Internet Security 2012, Google Chrome for browser.
Ever since installing the graphics card with the latest drivers on Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit Service Pack 1, I've been getting these strange in game glitches. Where everything turns from 3D into 2D and these strange pixels appear on the screen.
Here's a screenshot I took of the Half Life 2 menu screen (Big Image) - http://i.minus.com/iomIf580qzdtj.bmp
After a while the game will either stay the same or crash to the desktop, every setting on the game is maxed out, 16X AA, max resolution etc.
When it exits back to the desktop, every so often these strange pixels appear in different places all over the screen.
Here's my full system specifications, including hardware and peripherals...
Processor - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 3800+ 2.10GHz (Not Overclocked)
Graphics Card - XFX NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 512MB DDR3 (Version 285.58 Driver)
Motherboard - ASRock N68C-S UCC (BIOS Version 1.60)
RAM - 2GB (2 X 1GB) DDR3 677MHz (Unbranded)
Hard Drive - Seagate 160GB SATA
DVD Drive - LG DVD R/W Ultra Speed
PSU - Alpine 500W
Monitor - Hanns G HX191D 19" (DVI Cable)
Keyboard - Compaq PS/2 Wired
Mouse - Labtec USB
Windows has the latest updates, I have Avast Internet Security 2012, Google Chrome for browser.