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In short:
Is the 8800GT 512 (g92) or the display crapping out here?
Long:
Recently to my dismay I encountered some strange artifacting (if you can call it that, looks similar to ghosting from interference) in EVE a few weeks ago. It went away after I quit the game and didn't happen for a week so I wrote it off as a 'meh eve, shitty ccp programming' thing. However I ran into the same artifacts now in Baldur's Gate and Sins of a Solar Empire and they also persisted on the desktop multiple times. A few times when this happend the resolution on my LCD (Gateway FPD2185w connected via DVI) went whack and only showed a tiny portion of the screen interpolated to stretch. I tried to print screen and save some screenshots but when I looked at them on my mac the artifacts weren't captured in them.
After a 7800 and 7900 GT dying on me one after the other I was a very suspicious of my 8800GT 512 (g92) having kicked the bucket until I was unable to capture the artifacts and then I discovered cycling inputs (switching between pip or dvi and vga) causes the artifacts to go away and the resolution to correct itself and now I'm suspicious the monitor is failing instead. The artifacts are transparent and inverted duplicates of objects on screen shifted to the left and text is super blurry and then unusually sharp in other areas - it looks a lot like ghosting one would get over VGA with very bad interference.
Here are some pictures I took of the artifacts on screen, some of it is pretty hard to notice between the black and the transparency so you may need to look close particularly on LCDs suffering nasty black crush. The blurry and sharp fonts are hard to make out in most of the screens as the camera isn't the best at capturing it nor are my handles very stable.
Transparent start menu with duplicate black mouse and synergy's white log duplicated to the left as black.
More inverted duplication to the left, this time part of explorer's top-right corner.
EVE Online with inverted menu and cursor to the left in assets and very wonky text.
Photoshop 7 tool windows inverted to the left.
Higher resolution of entire desktop area with the artifacts from the first two images.
I have the PC connected via DVI and my Macbook Pro connected via VGA to the same display. The problems so far have only occurred with the PC on the display and not my Macbook Pro.
Is the 8800GT 512 (g92) or the display crapping out here?
Long:
Recently to my dismay I encountered some strange artifacting (if you can call it that, looks similar to ghosting from interference) in EVE a few weeks ago. It went away after I quit the game and didn't happen for a week so I wrote it off as a 'meh eve, shitty ccp programming' thing. However I ran into the same artifacts now in Baldur's Gate and Sins of a Solar Empire and they also persisted on the desktop multiple times. A few times when this happend the resolution on my LCD (Gateway FPD2185w connected via DVI) went whack and only showed a tiny portion of the screen interpolated to stretch. I tried to print screen and save some screenshots but when I looked at them on my mac the artifacts weren't captured in them.
After a 7800 and 7900 GT dying on me one after the other I was a very suspicious of my 8800GT 512 (g92) having kicked the bucket until I was unable to capture the artifacts and then I discovered cycling inputs (switching between pip or dvi and vga) causes the artifacts to go away and the resolution to correct itself and now I'm suspicious the monitor is failing instead. The artifacts are transparent and inverted duplicates of objects on screen shifted to the left and text is super blurry and then unusually sharp in other areas - it looks a lot like ghosting one would get over VGA with very bad interference.
Here are some pictures I took of the artifacts on screen, some of it is pretty hard to notice between the black and the transparency so you may need to look close particularly on LCDs suffering nasty black crush. The blurry and sharp fonts are hard to make out in most of the screens as the camera isn't the best at capturing it nor are my handles very stable.
Transparent start menu with duplicate black mouse and synergy's white log duplicated to the left as black.
More inverted duplication to the left, this time part of explorer's top-right corner.
EVE Online with inverted menu and cursor to the left in assets and very wonky text.
Photoshop 7 tool windows inverted to the left.
Higher resolution of entire desktop area with the artifacts from the first two images.
I have the PC connected via DVI and my Macbook Pro connected via VGA to the same display. The problems so far have only occurred with the PC on the display and not my Macbook Pro.