Video Card trouble (maybe?)

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I was playing Oblivion when the screen completely froze up. After
about ten seconds the screen blinked and switched to an image of the
Tomb Raider Legends main menu (also frozen).

I double-checked after I restarted and confirmed I had already
uninstalled Tomb Raider. Would these residual images of a game I had
played a day earlier indicate a bad video card?

It's my first computer I have built, so it's a learning experience.
 
Don't take this the wrong way, but I have to ask this question first.
What are you smoking, snorting, etc? Again, please don't take that the
wrong way. It is next to impossible for what you described to happen.
I'm not saying impossible, but so unlikely that I would have taken my
digital camera to the screen before rebooting (if the image stayed on
long enough).
 
this is evidence of a space time anomaly in close proximity to your
keyboard...memory problem, of the user maybe.
 
I was playing Oblivion when the screen completely froze up. After
about ten seconds the screen blinked and switched to an image of the
Tomb Raider Legends main menu (also frozen).

I double-checked after I restarted and confirmed I had already
uninstalled Tomb Raider. Would these residual images of a game I had
played a day earlier indicate a bad video card?

It's my first computer I have built, so it's a learning experience.
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OK, that's not possible, unless an extremely rare set of circumstances
happened. You'd need to have kept the computer on (sleep mode) since
yesterday. Then, you'd need to experience some kind of bizarre RAM or RAM
controller problem, causing a certain area of RAM to be accessed, when it
should not have been. -Dave
 
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Yep. That can happen easily. What you did was cached
one game, and then ran another. They all work the same
way, and even use the same dll-names. Where I see it
most often is when I finish a game, and want to start
another one, so I just put the cd in the drive and try to
start it from the shortcut. The first game title screen
will come up sometimes, and then give an error message
that the wrong cd is in the drive. Generally best to reboot
between games and unload the dlls.

johns
 
johns said:
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Yep. That can happen easily. What you did was cached
one game, and then ran another. They all work the same
way, and even use the same dll-names. Where I see it
most often is when I finish a game, and want to start
another one, so I just put the cd in the drive and try to
start it from the shortcut. The first game title screen
will come up sometimes, and then give an error message
that the wrong cd is in the drive. Generally best to reboot
between games and unload the dlls.

johns
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double-checked after I restarted and confirmed I had already

uninstalled Tomb Raider. Would these residual images of
a game I had

played a day earlier indicate a bad video card?
 
JAD said:
double-checked after I restarted and confirmed I had already

uninstalled Tomb Raider. Would these residual images of
a game I had

played a day earlier indicate a bad video card?
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Yes! It indicates, to me, that God wants you to bin your card and buy
another one!
 
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