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Weird Artifacts Sometimes When Gaming.

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BrickbookPro

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Jul 26, 2011
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So I've recently started playing CoD 4 and as of today after about 20 minutes of play I get these pixelated artifacts in spots on the screen (both the laptop monitor and the external monitor).Is it the game or the computer? They weren't there before. See picture below:

BTW, It's a macbook pro. THANKS!
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Prodo123 said:
Across both monitors on the same spot?
Then it's most likely the game.
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Yes, both monitors same location. You don't think the GPU is over heating? I just used fn+f1 to get the same thing displayed on my laptop monitor and external 1600X900.
 
BrickbookPro said:
Phew, that's somewhat of a relief. I guess now I just have to hope you're right :)
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Looking at the photo again, I can tell you which file has been corrupted.
It's the game file for your crosshairs! I can't believe I didn't notice that! All you need to do is fix that and you won't see it anymore. :D
 
I get that too, when I play WoW. Sometimes the characters or items turn pitch white in the game. Lol.
 
Prodo123 said:
Looking at the photo again, I can tell you which file has been corrupted.
It's the game file for your crosshairs! I can't believe I didn't notice that! All you need to do is fix that and you won't see it anymore. :D
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Did you see the artifacts in the bottom left and right as well? Also on the player where the arm is black?

I guess I'm still a little concerned because sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't. When it does, it slowly gets worse until I close out of the game.

Thanks for the help!
 
JDNGuru said:
I get that too, when I play WoW. Sometimes the characters or items turn pitch white in the game. Lol.
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Happened to me too (not playing anymore). That's an issue with the HD3000, like if there was sometimes a short delay before the textures are applied.

Maybe driver related? Never happened on my 2010 MBA.
 
I think it's because you're playing a terrible game, maybe if you play a better game like Battlefield the artifacts will go away.
 
Adamantoise said:
I think it's because you're playing a terrible game, maybe if you play a better game like Battlefield the artifacts will go away.
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Haha I used to play battlefield 1942. Not sure about current versions, but CoD 4 definitely beats that. Besides I don't have a windows environment to run games so i can't run mother games. Also, I got CoD4 from my brother free of charge :)


So is the consensus that my card (320m in 2010 MBP 13") is fine and that it is software related?
 
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