1.3 graphical glitch: rays stemming from some far perspective point...

[hoom]

Something a bit like this?


As said by others its normally a case of the card being too hot & should go away if you cool it down.
If the card is covered in dust, fans not running &/or ventilation slots blocked with dust then cleaning that out can improve things.

Make sure there is plenty of room for cool air to enter the PC & for the warm air to get away.

Depending on how the computer is setup & how hot wherever you live gets, it could be that the computer fans can't cope with the heat.

[Den of Earth]

If all the above fails you my friend, try going to your User Interface options and disable the Target Zones marker. If you are encountering the same problem I had, your Target Zone Markers are causing a kaleidoscope of target rays to overwhelm your screen.

[antisocialmunky]

Its usually a heat issue.

If your card does fry and you're out of warranty:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread....highlight=oven

[Slaists]

Something a bit like this?


As said by others its normally a case of the card being too hot & should go away if you cool it down.
If the card is covered in dust, fans not running &/or ventilation slots blocked with dust then cleaning that out can improve things.

Make sure there is plenty of room for cool air to enter the PC & for the warm air to get away.

Depending on how the computer is setup & how hot wherever you live gets, it could be that the computer fans can't cope with the heat.

Yes, that's exactly how it looked...

For now, after cleaning my fans, etc., the glitch seems to have disappeared (let's hope it stays that way). Also, if I remember correctly, on the day the glitch happened, my apartment AC was off and it was quite hot.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

[Slaists]

I double checked the innards of my system and did not find any dust there... Well, it's a pretty new system. The glitch seemed to have vanished too, at least, for some time.

It came back the other day, but this time I noticed a pattern. It would show up if I applied the field defense option to my artillery. It was one particular artillery unit that seemed affected (not the first, not the last) in several battles. I tried different options, clicking the field defense on and off for different combinations of artillery units): the glitch always showed up for that particular unit (all my artillery pieces were horse artillery, btw).

Also, I remembered that in the previous two occasions when I observed this glitch, the AI (not me) had deployed artillery field defenses...