Blue Rectangles

[Ghost765]

Heres a screenshot of my problem:

as you can see, my screen is covered in a sort of checkered pattern of blue rectangles. when i drag a window around, sometimes it creates a yellow trail.
the rectangles flicker ALOT, for half a second it may seem fine, the next they come back.

The problem started yesterday, right after i installed the Rhinoz mod for Dawn of War (the original DoW). i thought it would be fine after i restarted it. however, the problem continues. I booted up DoW to see if there were any glitches in there, and there were. The blue rectangles are still there on the loading screen. On a black screen, like right before the game starts but right after you double click the game, there are spaced vertically long blue rectanges. like this | | | | |

In Dawn of War, the models of everything but the units were screwed up. The models themselves had vertical rectangles on the texture or on the surface of the models, im not sure which.

My computer really is a piece of junk, but its all i've got atm so any help would be appreciated.

 

[Pyritie]

looks like a graphics card problem

 

[~Void~]

Or a monitor problem. Check the plugs in the back.

 

[Ghost765]

ok, well im on a laptop. i talked to DSG, and reinstalled my driver. still no luck.

 

[Kercyn]

Try reinstalling DoW without Rhinoz. Maybe there's something wrong in the mod.

 

[Ghost765]

already tried that. no luck.

 

[Infinitynexus]

That is likely the beginning of hardware failure, could be either your ram (due to it being a laptop and shared memory) or the dedicated video ram on the graphics card.

The wierd graphics is probably due to data corruption in either of those 2

Just had a laptop graphics card die of the same thing.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The fact is he said its running perfectly stably, all my PCs which suffered simlar things would almost always crash when doing the slightest thing graphically demanding, like playing WC3 or loading the desktop.

However it is quite likly related to graphic buffer RAM as thats the most likly place where ghosting should occur.

Reinstalling your OS or running a different OS is the only way to absolutly certainly rule out software. In which case I feel sorry for you...