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Graphical glitches

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Anybody has any idea why I'm getting these glitches when playing Giants? I never had them before and I did not recently change my hardware configuration...
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Might be that your disc is dirty/scratched or plain old.
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Try reinstalling giants?
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no, no.

Anybody who really knows what's going on?
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That's a graphics card problem.
Try to clean it's heatsink, and check if the fan is still working.
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It's clean. All other games work fine...
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Did you change your color or resulotion settings? or did you get a new monitor?
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The Giants community is indeed a reliable source of tech help. :|

I honestly don't have a valid answer either, but I'll just say that I have seen this exact glitch a while ago when I overclocked my old video card to (most likely) exceed its limit. I'm sure you wouldn't do that though, and as you stated, all other games work fine, so I'm rendered as clueless as you are here.
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Exploderman wrote:or did you get a new monitor?
Sigh.

What video card do you have? The only thing I can think of for you to try (if you haven't already) would be different drivers. It does look a little bit like overheating, but if you're not having any problems with other games that's not too likely to be it, either.
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I got a ati radeon 9800 pro with normal catalyst drivers. I also had the bug once when I overclocked my gf2mx (heating problem indeed) but right now it only seems to occurs on textures that are not 100% opaque (or possible have other kinds of effects applied to them). I guess I could try some alternative drivers.
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It seems to be an overheating graphical memory error...
You should check the temperature in the drivers.
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Post by SSJBardock »

My bad, the glitches don't occur just in Giants, they are just less noticeable in other games. I tried the Omega Radeon drivers, but that didn't help...I guess I'll take a look at my gpu fan sometime soon...
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