I think I have a Broken GPU
I'm using a Geforce 8800GT, it's about 4 years old.
Since I played Episode 2 of BTTF the game, at least once or twice while playing the game I have noticed some kind of distortion during at least some portion of the game. By distortion I mean flashes of black textures, stuttering in gameplay (which even will go to the menu if I quit to menu). Usually I could recover out of this problem and restart the game and the problem usually wouldn't come back until I finished the game. I don't really play games on my PC anymore, the only PC games I've played in the past several months has been the BTTF games as they came out.
Last night as I was playing I had no problems whatsoever. Then my room started to heat up as (what I'm assuming) the finale started to run and Doc' speech stuttered while the screen distorted. I quit the game, replayed the puzzle and triggered the finale again, as I hit the autosave the game crashed and I mean SNOW CRASHED and the screen flickered black, forcing me again to alt tab out of the game.
As I alt-tabbed out of the game to force quit windows informed me the geforce driver had just recovered. That driver ALWAYS has windows problems when you have hardware failure.
Anyone else have stuttering problems with the game or do I indeed need to go shopping for a new GPU?
Since I played Episode 2 of BTTF the game, at least once or twice while playing the game I have noticed some kind of distortion during at least some portion of the game. By distortion I mean flashes of black textures, stuttering in gameplay (which even will go to the menu if I quit to menu). Usually I could recover out of this problem and restart the game and the problem usually wouldn't come back until I finished the game. I don't really play games on my PC anymore, the only PC games I've played in the past several months has been the BTTF games as they came out.
Last night as I was playing I had no problems whatsoever. Then my room started to heat up as (what I'm assuming) the finale started to run and Doc' speech stuttered while the screen distorted. I quit the game, replayed the puzzle and triggered the finale again, as I hit the autosave the game crashed and I mean SNOW CRASHED and the screen flickered black, forcing me again to alt tab out of the game.
As I alt-tabbed out of the game to force quit windows informed me the geforce driver had just recovered. That driver ALWAYS has windows problems when you have hardware failure.
Anyone else have stuttering problems with the game or do I indeed need to go shopping for a new GPU?
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I using a GTX-275 & I've had this problem with a couple of other games.
I've heard rolling back to previous drivers fixes it?
I get it only during cutscenes?
However, it never happened once with the first episode?
I yanked the card and am running onboard until I can afford a replacement. Probably a 460 or 560.
I'll try to update the video drivers and see what happens.
EDIT: No luck, same problem after updating to last version. I think my videocard is dying.