Ive tried every thing i can to try and fix this problem. I have an nVidia GeForce 7900GS with 256MB RAM. This issue first started about a year ago. It was never this bad though. When playing games like farcry, i started noticing artifacts (shooting polygons, like these ugly spike things) Then, i would see these coloured strips of data in certain parts.
I have FEAR, and when i play that, i get really massive shooting polygons. In desktop, i get these small coloured dots that randomly flashed.
I recently ran a benchmark test for my video card, and about 2 minutes in, shooting polygons were coming from everywhere, and even deforming shadows aswell, the whole screen was covered in ugly polygon triangles and rectangles.
Recently, i was watching a movie on my PC, and even then, i got these shooting polygons from characters, then an error message said display driver failed.
These are the things i have tried to solve this:
Taken side off case, blown a house fan to the card, turned all games on low settings and resolutions, downloaded letest drivers, cleaned all dust from pc, cleaned all dust from ventilation hole and video card fan, turned up fan speed, installed an exhaust fan and even underclocked it.
Not one of these worked, or if they did only temporary.
I never bought a new video card because i thought it would be fixed before, and now i think i should save up for a new one. Is it damaged beyond repair?
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