So i removed all the extra programs that I had on my comp easy tune, easy saver and some other ATI programs and no crackly audio and no flickering screen, artifacts or bluescreen. I put the extra stick of ram back in and it’s fine. The only thing is I have lower fps in boss battles and high populated areas. I don’t get it, I had my nvidia in here before with a clean install of windows, I used a driver wiping program and I was having all those previous issues. Might be some conflicting programs with my set up. I have no idea what is going on… all I can say is I’m in the silver wastes with high settings and it’s running better than any other time since this started happening, I played through the new living story with Caithe’s memories and it ran alright on highest setting but yeah there is a loss of fps for some reason. Speedfan says it’s over heating idk…
Had a blackscreen again with garbled loud sounds during teq and another time during fractals. I removed a stick of ram and it’s strange I can now play with high settings, speedfan is indicating no overheating but there is still a low fps laggy problem. Sometimes speenfan when I first open it says 88 and suddenly it’s 46… not sure what that’s about. I don’t think my psu is a problem but will test it eventually.
So I did a memory diagnostic test and it turned out there are no errors. Thankfully for some reason the blackscreen flicker, bluescreen and artifacts are no longer a problem. Highest temp now sits at 50 and doesn’t climb. I play with lowest settings and where before I couldn’t even make it through a karka or teq fight now I can with no issues. I still get laggy gameplay and crackling audio, when I turn up to highest settings the game is choppy and lags but no problems like the black flickering screen, artifacts or bluescreen. Before the graphic and overheating problems I was playing the game on highest settings and it ran perfectly. Thank you all for the quick responses and advice. I’ll keep testing things/trying out possible solutions and will report back if things change.
I used DDU and wiped remaining nvidia and amd stuff. I put in my amd card with the latest catalyst software and thankfully I was able to play for most of the night with only one crash and made it through a whole Tequatl fight. I’m still running the game on lowest settings and the highest temp on speedfan sits at 50 now and doesn’t climb like it used to. Either on lowest or highest graphic settings in game I’m still getting laggy gameplay and crackly audio but thankfully no bluescreen, artifacts or constant crashes like before. :/
Thanks all. Yeah each time I put in the other video card I uninstall the drivers beforehand. I don’t use a driver wiping program but I guess I should. I’ll try a test for the ram and psu and see what comes up. I could have a virus but I did do a test and nothing came up.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Like I said in my original post I have another gpu SAPPHIRE HD 7750 1GB GDDR5 that I have tried and still same issues. My psu is new XFX Pro 650W Core Edition. Everything was running flawlessly before this happened out of the blue. I did remove the drivers and nvidia programs when the gts 250 was still in it and when I restarted it auto updated with a different driver and it began running a little bit better, on lowest settings with not as much artifacts and heat. Right now I’m trying out the other card and still same issues again after trying different things. Now the MOM.exe, CCC.exe and loadMMdriver are coming up to be allowed access and that froze my computer every time it popped up. I just declined it and my comp hasn’t froze yet thankfully. I’m going to do some more searching around for solutions and will report back. Thanks all!!
Hi all and thanks for the assistance. Everything was running stable until suddenly I started seeing artifacts and a black flickering screen then freezing and crash. The only thing that happened beforehand was I installed itunes and the next time I turned on my comp windows wouldn’t load properly. Eventually windows did load and would start normally after that but when I try to play any game I get high temps now with crash. I can run GW2 on the lowest settings and still play for a little while but eventually it crashes and the display driver and/or the comp needs to be rebooted. All fans seems to be working properly. I took apart my main card and got rid of all the dust and reapplied the thermal paste to no avail. I tried different slots for my graphics card and even switched my graphics card with my old one and they both overheat. I reinstalled windows as well and loaded all the drivers and still no luck. Here is a screenshot of my temps during playing and the two at the bottom right are just running idle.
Processor: AMD FX 8320 Eight Core 3.50 ghz
Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTS 250
Ram: 16gb
windows 7 64bit
