A virus? My graphics card? Anyone know?

[leader of mortals]

I don't know what's wrong, our graphics card may be going bad, we may have a virus, but something is definitely wrong...

Look at the Witch in this picture for Maplestory please...

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It's all odd and pixelly, and this problem seems to come and go for the map as well...

Now if you could please look at the same problem I see in epsxe...

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And it's not just that game...

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But you may be thinking that none of these are TOO distracting...

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And still not TOOO bad...

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So what, the tower is green, dont be a baby...

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Oh... Well... There is supposed to be someone there...

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Oooo, pretty colors...

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Ehh...

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Now, I don't think the problem is a virus, because the last thing I downloaded was a week or so before this started to happen, and both Avira and AVG found nothing...
Our Motherboard went bad not too long ago, and im not sure if they replaced our graphics card at that time or not...

Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? It seems that the more graphically demanding the game, the worse it is, because Dungeon Fighter Online is just fine, it has no out of place pixels at all...

The games shown are Maplestory, Brave Fencer Musashi, Tomba, and Combat Arms.

[Serapy]

Have you updated your video card's drivers?

And P.S Maplestory sucks.

[Mirage]

Unlikely to be a virus, my bet is on a graphics driver issue, overheating graphics card, or failing graphics card memory.

And PS. your opinion of Maple Story is of no relevance :D.

[leader of mortals]

Oh, and I forgot one probably very important detail...

When playing Maplestory, if I Alt-Tab, the problem goes away, often for my entire playing session. When playing Combat Arms, the problem changes, from maybe being able to see almost none of the screen, to being able to see the screen but no enemies.

Youtube, Spoony, Cinemassacre, and TGWTG are all completely unaffected, however...

[Serapy]

... Have you updated your video card's drivers or not?
To find out what's your video card called, go to the Device Manager via Control Panel. Then, use Google to update your drivers.

If you indeed have updated the drivers and the problem still persists, you may very well need a new video card.

[leader of mortals]

What site could I use if I have a Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE?

I have a Vista, btw...

[Mirage]

nvidia.com, perhaps?

[leader of mortals]

I didn't at first see a driver update on the Nvidia website, but I did this time. Didn't do anything.....

[o_O]

<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_191.07_whql.html">This one here will do</a> if it's not the one you already tried.

I think Mirage and Serapy are on the money with drivers or graphics hardware.

[Momiji]

It's definitely the graphics hardware. My desktop went through the exact same ordeal, and that was how it started. It gets a lot worse if you don't get stuff replaced...

And MapleStory is just fine. It just... gets boring really fast =<

[leader of mortals]

<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_191.07_whql.html">This one here will do</a> if it's not the one you already tried.

I think Mirage and Serapy are on the money with drivers or graphics hardware.

Yeah, that's the one I tried... It seems that it actually made the problem worse...

And MapleStory is just fine. It just... gets boring really fast =<

And that's why I change jobs a lot. I still always quit for a few weeks, then come back for a few weeks, the quit for a few weeks etc.

[Momiji]

Yup. I'm pretty sure your graphics card is fried-- or is in the process of frying. Time to replace it. That's what was wrong with my computer, at least.