Help thread, possible overheat/drivers thread.

[MortifiedocAlot]

I've been having this problem while playing TF2 and games in general. I'll run the game normally for a while, then out of nowhere I get these texture issues and the screen will become one big sprite and all of the games menus become unreadable and unusable. The same will happen with FO3 when I try to start it (only happened twice now, and decently far apart). So I have a question, could this just be an issue with my drivers or something bigger, also I'm not exactly sure how to update my drivers other than the mass amount of driver searchers that I'd rather not deal with.

[annon]

What graphics card are you using?

[MortifiedocAlot]

Geforce 8800 GTX, also I can currently run games again, so I'm still at a loss as to what's going on. I suppose it could be because I currently have a nasty spyware program again, and I think I had a similar problem when this first started.

[Bobbias]

a) get rid of nasty spyware, that stuff can really cause some crazy problems in places you'd never think they could, lol.
b) get something to check your temps, there are a bunch of them out there. If you can't get temps from the card, you can check case temps and see if they are reported as being high. that would at least give your some idea of how high the ambient case temp is to get some idea of what you may be running at.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Could I get something software wise to check temperature or would it have to be hardware? Also this spyware is annoying, every time I restart to check for the virus it says it's in the current memory and it needs to rescan at the next restart (so it's just an endless cycle).

[Bobbias]

There's software, such as Speedfan as well as CoreTemp (I haven't used this, so I dunno how good it is.)

Also, if you haven't already, download and run ComboFix. Combofix is designed to get rid of a number of really nasty infections, so if yours is one of those particularly stubborn ones, it might help get rid of it.

[MortifiedocAlot]

Running core temp now and I did combo fix, both of which work. Apparently after TF2 my core is at 40 C tops, and I guess this won't give me my graphics card temp which is what worries me now.

[annon]

Yeah, you should probably get yourself some sensors.