Will Windows 8 be the death of PC gaming?

[noiseredux]

afterthought: When I ran DriverSweep I was looking for any AMD drivers. I found none, BUT I do remember there being an ATI driver... that actually could have been the previously installed driver for my card, couldn't it?

[Hobie-wan]

Yes, AMD purchased ATI a few years ago. I've been on nvidia cards for a while so I'm not sure how the branding is listed these days on those cards.

[Stark]

Yeah, if you can, I would install the card and hook up to your onboard video. Then go and get the latest drivers and install em, see if that does it.

[noiseredux]

fixed. But damn. Set the BIOS to read onboard first. Then had to display hidden devices in the device manager. Then uninstalled the AMD drivers found there. Then installed new drivers from AMD. Then rebooted and it worked. HOPEFULLY this is the end of my annoyances with this PC for a while.

[noiseredux]

it's not over. I now think my GPU is the problem. Sigh. It just went black screen in the middle of a game. I took it out, I don't think the fan was spinning on it and it felt kind of hot. I'm wondering if the GPU somehow died on me and was doing its best to run?

I don't really want to buy a new GPU to test it... it COULD be the PCIe bus right? Ugh this sucks.

So now I'm back to playing games w/ no GPU. :\

[EvilRyu2099]

What game are you playing? And what is your GPU? Maybe the GPU has problems running the game itself or your graphics settings are too advanced for the card itself?

[Hobie-wan]

it's not over. I now think my GPU is the problem. Sigh. It just went black screen in the middle of a game. I took it out, I don't think the fan was spinning on it and it felt kind of hot. I'm wondering if the GPU somehow died on me and was doing its best to run?

I don't really want to buy a new GPU to test it... it COULD be the PCIe bus right? Ugh this sucks.

So now I'm back to playing games w/ no GPU. :\

Video cards run pretty damn warm these days. Even if the fan was working properly they'd be pretty warm after just being in the middle of a game. Fire the PC up with the side off so you can see if the fan is spinning. If so, point a desk fan in the open side while you play and see if the problem goes away. If it does and things aren't blanketed by dust (I assume they're not since you've been in there) then you might not have good air flow getting the heat out of your PC case.

[noiseredux]

What game are you playing? And what is your GPU? Maybe the GPU has problems running the game itself or your graphics settings are too advanced for the card itself?

nothing intensive. Just Magical Drop V. Was playing AVP last night w/ no problem. I'm really frustrated.

I'm starting to think this is a mobo issue. I put the GPU in my old PC and turned it on - and sure enough the fan spun. When I put it in my new PC it TRIES to spin for a second and then nothing.

[emwearz]

Download MSI afterburner and see if you can manually adjust the fan speed.

Video cards run pretty damn warm these days.

Unlikely his issue, considering he is running a low end gpu that is a generation old and does not pull external power.

[noiseredux]

Download MSI afterburner and see if you can manually adjust the fan speed.

I'm back to a situation where I can't get anything but a black screen with the card plugged in. It worked for a night, but now nothing again. I really am feeling like this is a mobo (PCIe slot) issue :\

Like I said, fan worked fine on the GPU when I just plugged it into my old PC.