Asus P5Q
Geforce 8600 GT, latest drivers
2 gig ram
fresh install of vista family premium
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After loading a particular 1.06 game, the screen immediately flashes white, randomly. This has happened 3 times. Once, it CTD'd with a direct X error. Once, the flashing stopped and I was able to play, although some of the city labels were missing, and after I quit, I had a windows popup, something like, 'the graphics driver has been recovered'. Once, the screen became totally corrupted and it literally BSOD'd.
Of course, I thought at first my card was overheating, but I doubted that as the problem started as soon as the game loaded. I have a sidebar gadget that measures the temp, it's always between 55 and 60 deg C when I quit playing a 3D game, and here was no different. So then I tried to make the problem happen with Starcraft 2, I loaded a mission with lots of units attacking, I made a bunch of units and generally tried to overheat my card to see if I could make the same thing happen. Nope, rock solid, temp at 61 deg C when I quit.
I might add that I just had a hard drive die on me a week ago, so my windows install is as clean as can be, everything reinstalled from scratch.
It really appears that this problem is coming from the game itself. Hope this helps.
