Wow Players And Techheads Needed!

[Style32]

Hey all,

just got this game recently, so far so good. One problem I have been having is my screen gets messed up frequently which annoys the hell out of me. Im hoping someone knows how to overcome this problem as I cant play certain areas with this problem. Heres a few screenshots of what im talking about

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/swa...zzle/pic003.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/swa...zzle/pic002.jpg

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b245/swa...zzle/pic001.jpg

If you can see what im talking about. Theres alot of textures covering up the screen. My computer is a P4 1.8ghz, 1.2gig ram with a geforce 5700GS video card. The game runs fine and no lag at all, this is the only problem i have encountered. Any help is appreciated.

[Whyallapunk]

It looks just like a glitch in the game.....

Or maybe your card doesn;t support the needed shaders?

Edited November 6, 2006 by Whyallapunk

[vbevan]

It looks just like a glitch in the game.....

Or maybe your card doesn;t support the needed shaders?

Ok, been playing for a few yrs now and I know that problem well. My brother had it and the only solution we found was getting a different video card. He had a LCD screen which may have been the cause though my guess was faulty card as updating game and drivers didn't fix it. Sorry I'm not more help.

[nsanity]

Ok, been playing for a few yrs now and I know that problem well. My brother had it and the only solution we found was getting a different video card. He had a LCD screen which may have been the cause though my guess was faulty card as updating game and drivers didn't fix it. Sorry I'm not more help.

Sadly this is happening to a lot of people (myself included). Somewhere along the lines Blizzard has probably changed the code they use to render things and it seems to be pushing a whole bunch of older cards over the edge and they are flaking out.

When it gets real bad, they will actually lock up and bluescreen/restart.

Sadly - the only way known of fixing it is to buy a new gfx card.

P.S if, like me, you only get it in certain areas, then you aren't safe - First 2 zones in BC suffer much much harder that most areas in non-expansion, and crash me out in minutes. If you want to play BC, you will have to grab a new card.

[D3RV]

hey man, its definately your video card. I bought a 6600GT almost a year ago and it came up with graphic glitches similar to that, which ultimately filled up the whole screen with time. I tried about 5-6 different types of drivers and no dice. Only option was to replace the graphics card which I did and who would have thought it worked.

I Currently I have a 7900GT and it works a treat. I'm not sure which models are 'glitch free' but at this time I'd definitely stick to Nvidia. You can always try the official WoW forums, I'm sure there's a pissload of geeks that will willingly give you a list.

-Derv

[leech_]

i had a similar sort of thing but even funkier when i was playing BF2 a while back like others have said get a new video card... maybe try updating your video drivers if they are old as well.

[Oberious]

dont play the game O.O its really addictive when you get to higher lvls and yeah, i might sound like a idiot but it does take time away from your socail life.

I Sold my Char for 900 aussie and never looked back

[Style32]

Sorry havent been posting in a while, turns out the glitch in the game was because my motherboard was mega shite, and it wasnt letting the vid card work to its full potential, when it got to ares where alot of detail was required the vid card couldnt work hard enough (my own technical terms ). Cheers for all the advice, i upgraded the mb and all is sweet now

ps. i only got to lvl 30somehting before i stopped playing, im gonna close my account, dont have the time/effort to put into the game to get anywhere

Edited January 7, 2007 by Style32

[rSrkt_]

I have a better solution, dont play that terribad game, go for something like counterstrike source...

[Sol32]

I have a better solution, dont play that terribad game, go for something like counterstrike source...

8 million players cant be wrong. WoW kills CSS and any other FPS shooter for that matter. Of course thats just me...