Hilarious Graphics Glitches

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Ever had your videocard do something totally unexpected and wierd on you? Did you take screenshots? I was playing TF2 when the screen suddenly froze and whited-out. When it resumed I was still in the game and everything worked normally and I kept on playing until the round ended except that the game looked like this!!!

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The textures were all swapped with each other. It was consistent though, no artifacting or anything wierd. Just everything was replaced and scrambled around. Even the metal floors in some areas started to act like mirrors and reflected at odd angles but it was all playable and consistent.
 
That doesn't appear to be a GPU related problem, but a poor coding / level design problem.
 
Thats pretty random. I don't think I've seen anything like that before.
 
That's a secret level, sort of an Easter Egg. You are so good at the game that you inadvertently discovered it. Thanks for sharing.
 
Leman said:
I hate that so much.
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Me too. If I alt+tab once I typically get purple boxes replacing some textures. But if I alt+tab enough I get all kinds of weird shit. Invisible models, switched models, people swimming in the air, etc.
 
Odd, I can alt-tab just fine in source games. On my desktop with 4gb of RAM it only takes like 2-4 seconds to alt-tab out and back in. On my laptop with 2gb of RAM (but a faster CPU), it takes considerably longer (30-50 seconds), but it doesn't cause any graphical glitches
 
The source engine is so crap at times, you still can't alt tab in Vista x64 without problems, and it still crashes on exit on Vista x64.
 
Well my PC is brand new from the ground up, all new kit (see sig), a fresh install of Vista x64 Ultimate with all patches installed including SP1, latest drivers for everything, latest DirectX distribution. Fresh install of steam, all downloaded straight from their servers...

But yeah, it's obviously my fault :rolleyes:
 
I never said it was your fault. :) It's always different on all computers. And I don't know if I misread, but there doesn't seem to be a motherboard in your sig. I wonder what it is. :)
 
That's what BF2 almost looks like for me after playing for a while. :eek::mad::eek:
I think my hd2900 can't handle heat...
 
Only time I have seen that was in CF which is a source engine and it was because my 7900GT had ram that was marginal at the OC speed EVGA set it to. Down clocking the ram fixed it.
 
TheBlueChanell said:
My game just never closed right in either version of vista 32/64. I always get the HL2.exe has stopped working, but from what I remember, I got that in XP too.
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I get that too on all my machines, but crashing on exit is one problem I am completely OK with :D
 
Frostex said:
The source engine is so crap at times, you still can't alt tab in Vista x64 without problems, and it still crashes on exit on Vista x64.
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I ALT-TAB out of TF2 in Vista x64 just fine and it takes 2-4 seconds like someone said. My system is in my sig. However there are indeed random crashes and sh*t during the game every now and then which are related to NVIDIA driver issues. And there is also the annoying crash when you close TF2. I never had any problems with my old 7600GT.
 
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