Crazy menu textures

[Breadman86]

Preface: I recently formatted my computer and re-installed Oblivion with a bunch of new mods, and some old ones I was using before. Because I did everything all at once, there really isn't a possible way for me to disable each one one at a time to see if it solves my problem. Also, my problem usually appears at random times... sometimes 10 minutes in to playing, other times 2 or 3 hours later, which makes it hard to test.

 

Problem: I'm playing normally, smoothly, no problem, having fun. Then suddenly my HUDs textures change. Health bar goes to blue, crosshair turns into a different brown texture... I click escape, and the whole menu has gone wacko too. After having this happen multiple times, I've realized that my menu/hud textures are being replaced by other random textures in my environment. By restarting the game it is all fixed. I can even save while it's bad, restart, and it will be fixed. Every so often textures in the environment will change as well, but 95% of the time it's only the HUD/Menu.

 

I thought it could be overheating... but even with my case open, air conditioner down, and a space fan pointing in, it still happens. Also, I can have the case closed, no space fan, and air not on, and Crysis will run fine for hours. So I doubt it's overheating.

 

Thoughts?

[Guest]

Bumped.

 

I have similar problems lately. Additionally, my environments usually go crazy and have random textures appear. My text goes all garbled and unreadable, people usually turn purple or the entire screen develops a lovely blue hue.

 

The problem is that the fix isn't permanent and it'll usually happen again after a few minutes as stuff loads. It's particularly bad in the wilderness, although it's happened in towns once or twice.

 

I've tried installing fresh drivers for my 8600GT, to little avail. I tried a fresh install of Oblivion and being much more careful with my mod loads (even tho I never used to have this problem until very recently), but I still get it.

 

Any help or ideas would be appreciated. I apologise for not having a screeny or two to show you but I'll get one asap.

 

Many thanks in advance.

[bben46]

It could still be a heat problem. Usually when I see a graphics problem that develops after playing for a while, and it gets worse over time, I look at temperature on the video card first.

 

Make sure the fan on your video card is running. then make sure there is no dust clogging up the air channels on it. or dust on the motherboard. I have fixed many video and other problems by cleaning out the dust in a computer. Be sure to unplug it before trying to clean out the dust.

 

If you know how, remove the card, clean the connector on the motherboard and reinstall the card. This can make a better electrical connection. Be sure the card is seated all the way down.

[Breadman86]

Bump

 

It's not heat. My GPU isn't getting above 64C, ever, and that's without a space fan next to my computer. With the case open and a space fan going in, it never gets above 55C or so and the problem STILL happens.

 

Also, I've noticed it happening in some other games like Team Fortress 2. I cleaned out all the dust and components in my computer yesterday... now it's even worse. I can't even load a game in Oblivion or TF2 without it almost immediately going to crazy textures, with textures on all the wrong objects.

 

I've run Prime65 and Memtest86 and found no problems. I've run BurnInTest, a program that tests CPU, memory, GPU, GPU memory, sound, everything, and it found no problems. I've run McAfee and found no viruses, and AdAware and all it did was get rid of a few cookies. Everything is defragged as well.

 

EDIT: Just uninstalled Nvdia drivers and re-installed them. Same thing. Everything is fine, I load the game, and the second stuff appears on screen it goes crazy and every object/menu has the wrong texture.

[Gaugain]

Didn't sound for me like overheating, those temps. are quite normal.

What are you're using for defrag (software)? Also, did you defrag after un-install the drivers and clean the disc without running McAfee ?

Lastlly, what are you running XP or Vista?

[Breadman86]

I'm running XP Pro SP2 and I just used the defrag software that came with it. And yes, I did those other things.

 

Update though... I actually solved the problem, but in a way I dislike. I got rid of my second monitor. For some reason, running 2 monitors instead of 1 was messing me up. I don't feel like this was my best solution, but it worked. So it must have something to do with my dual monitor setup or that second monitor. It was old and it did suck, so maybe its outdated display drivers had something to do with it. Hm.