Problem with 8500 and Half-Life 2

[lupodwdm]

I have an ATI 8500le128 meg running on a 3.0E prescott with 1 gig ram. The card works pretty well in Half-Life 2 considering how old it is, but I am getting a strange problem with the textures. In every scene there are a few triangle shapes missing from the textures and there are all these sparkling dots on some of the textures. I upgraded the drivers to the lastest verson the card supported, but same results.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Seongmin]

I believe that your video card is dying and the sparkling dots may be artifacts. Possibly a time to upgrade the card?

 

[toelessfoot]

sounds like you're getting some serious overheating, GPU and memory. My 8500le 128mb runs it perfectly, so it must be that it's wearing with age, unless you overclock?

 

[Emret]

the fan on my 8500LE died long time ago.. Im playin HL2 without the fan with no artifacts (although i only played about 45mins straight)

 

[CATALYST MAKER]

I have an ATI 8500le128 meg running on a 3.0E prescott with 1 gig ram. The card works pretty well in Half-Life 2 considering how old it is, but I am getting a strange problem with the textures. In every scene there are a few triangle shapes missing from the textures and there are all these sparkling dots on some of the textures. I upgraded the drivers to the lastest verson the card supported, but same results.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Does this happen only on Half Life 2 or in other games as well (such as doom3). The answer to that will answer your question.

If it happens in other games sounds like a board ready to die. If it happens only on HL2 it may be a system configuration problem. Best thing in that case would be to just format your hard drive and start clean.

Another thing it could be is your power supply (but I doubt it)