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MG1962 · 15th July 2012, 10:11 PM

Yesterday I reformatted my computer to clean up some OS issues that had been slowing me down. I reloaded from steam the racing game DIRT which for the last year had run faultlessly on the machine.

When in the game about 20% of the track is not rendering. All I am getting are green and white triangles. I run windows 64 bit duel core. I up dated all the drivers and graphic management software. I reduced all the graphic settings to bare minimum but nothing I have done has made a difference.

I am in the middle of redown loading the game in the hope something went wrong at that point. If that fails to cure the problem anyone got any ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue

Sam.I.Am · 16th July 2012, 12:51 AM

Video drivers needing to be updated would be my first guess on anything involving a reformatting of the OS and graphic glitches. Are you absolutely sure that you have the latest up to date drivers and whatnot installed and that they are the right ones?

That specific description also sounds like what you might see with an overheating problem with the graphics card as well. Did you move the PC at all, perhaps somehow blocking cooling ports or knocking something loose inside? Did you just move wires around and\or possibly drop something behind the case that's blocking the ports? Does your machine have temp monitoring built in and if so can you monitor them to rule out a cooling issue?

What about other high stress games like that free Alien one (I forget the name at the moment) or trackmania nations (also free). Do they also have problems like this?

uruk · 16th July 2012, 08:45 AM

You might also want to try re-installling the DirectX 9 or 10 drivers.

MG1962 · 16th July 2012, 08:55 AM

Originally Posted by Sam.I.Am

Video drivers needing to be updated would be my first guess on anything involving a reformatting of the OS and graphic glitches. Are you absolutely sure that you have the latest up to date drivers and whatnot installed and that they are the right ones?

Yeah re-downloading the game fixed nothing so I am going to reinstall the drivers and direct X stuff and see if something didn't glitch during those steps

MG1962 · 16th July 2012, 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by uruk

You might also want to try re-installling the DirectX 9 or 10 drivers.

Yeah thats exactly what I am doing now

MG1962 · 16th July 2012, 09:13 AM

Okies got it fixed. I didn't need the newest drivers but legacy drivers from 2011...who would have thought. Anyway game is as good as it ever has

CORed · 19th July 2012, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by MG1962

Okies got it fixed. I didn't need the newest drivers but legacy drivers from 2011...who would have thought. Anyway game is as good as it ever has

Don't you just love upgrades that aren't really upgrades? If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.

15th July 2012, 10:11 PM	#1
MG1962 Guest Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kansas (Australia) Posts: 14,750	Odd graphic issue Yesterday I reformatted my computer to clean up some OS issues that had been slowing me down. I reloaded from steam the racing game DIRT which for the last year had run faultlessly on the machine. When in the game about 20% of the track is not rendering. All I am getting are green and white triangles. I run windows 64 bit duel core. I up dated all the drivers and graphic management software. I reduced all the graphic settings to bare minimum but nothing I have done has made a difference. I am in the middle of redown loading the game in the hope something went wrong at that point. If that fails to cure the problem anyone got any ideas of what to try or what might be causing the issue

16th July 2012, 12:51 AM	#2
Sam.I.Am Illuminator Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Hunting Moose and Squirrel Posts: 4,164	Video drivers needing to be updated would be my first guess on anything involving a reformatting of the OS and graphic glitches. Are you absolutely sure that you have the latest up to date drivers and whatnot installed and that they are the right ones? That specific description also sounds like what you might see with an overheating problem with the graphics card as well. Did you move the PC at all, perhaps somehow blocking cooling ports or knocking something loose inside? Did you just move wires around and\or possibly drop something behind the case that's blocking the ports? Does your machine have temp monitoring built in and if so can you monitor them to rule out a cooling issue? What about other high stress games like that free Alien one (I forget the name at the moment) or trackmania nations (also free). Do they also have problems like this?
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16th July 2012, 08:45 AM	#3
uruk Philosopher Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: In the land of the Shatner stealing Mexico touchers Posts: 5,313	You might also want to try re-installling the DirectX 9 or 10 drivers.
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19th July 2012, 11:44 AM	#7
CORed Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,349	Originally Posted by MG1962 Okies got it fixed. I didn't need the newest drivers but legacy drivers from 2011...who would have thought. Anyway game is as good as it ever has Don't you just love upgrades that aren't really upgrades? If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
CORed Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,349

16th July 2012, 08:55 AM	#4
MG1962 Guest Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kansas (Australia) Posts: 14,750	Originally Posted by Sam.I.Am Video drivers needing to be updated would be my first guess on anything involving a reformatting of the OS and graphic glitches. Are you absolutely sure that you have the latest up to date drivers and whatnot installed and that they are the right ones? Yeah re-downloading the game fixed nothing so I am going to reinstall the drivers and direct X stuff and see if something didn't glitch during those steps

16th July 2012, 09:00 AM	#5
MG1962 Guest Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kansas (Australia) Posts: 14,750	Originally Posted by uruk You might also want to try re-installling the DirectX 9 or 10 drivers. Yeah thats exactly what I am doing now

16th July 2012, 09:13 AM	#6
MG1962 Guest Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Kansas (Australia) Posts: 14,750	Okies got it fixed. I didn't need the newest drivers but legacy drivers from 2011...who would have thought. Anyway game is as good as it ever has