Can old games make my video card go crazy?

[br3akth3w1nd]

Hey! Here is my problem: when I play games like Starcraft, Earthsiege 2 (old gameS), the colors of my computer start to go crazy. For example, the water in starcraft has blue, red, purle, green and yellow lines over it. This happens when I play an old game for more than 30 min. And you dont even want to know what happens to the colors in starcraft in the menu where you choose which mission to play, everything is white, black and blue..(and maybe other colors) . So why does this happens Is it a problem with my video card? When I play a new game (Like WoW), everything in my computer stays normal. My video card is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. 128 MB memory

[Quantos]

What OS and service pack are you running?

[Allan]

Are you using the latest driver for the video card? If not, download & install it and see if that helps.

[computeruler]

and if none of the above works blow the dust out

[br3akth3w1nd]

What OS and service pack are you running?

Windows XP SP 3

Are you using the latest driver for the video card? If not, download & install it and see if that helps.

That might be.. I installed the new drivers.. all I have to now is wait to see if it works.

and if none of the above works blow the dust out

I did.

[Allan]

That might be.. I installed the new drivers.. all I have to now is wait to see if it works.

Let us know.

[br3akth3w1nd]

FTW?! I applied the new drivers (they were automatically detected by NVidia web Site), and now my Color Quality is set to 4 BIT?! and screen resolution at 800x600?!?! *censored* is going on here.. you dont even want to know how it looks like..  The worst thing is that I cant change them, this is the min/max.

[Allan]

I don't know what "applied" means. It sounds as though you did not actually INSTALL the new driver. You need to run the "setup.exe" file in the driver download. Did you do that and did the new driver install (it would have gone through a whole setup routine).

[computeruler]

ahh ya good times.  4870 did this to me before.  Uninstall the drivers with driver sweeper, restart, then install the drivers by running the setup you downloaded

[br3akth3w1nd]

I don't know what "applied" means. It sounds as though you did not actually INSTALL the new driver. You need to run the "setup.exe" file in the driver download. Did you do that and did the new driver install (it would have gone through a whole setup routine).

Applied = installed or something like that.

ahh ya good times.  4870 did this to me before.  Uninstall the drivers with driver sweeper, restart, then install the drivers by running the setup you downloaded

Thank you. This worked Now all I have to do is wait and see if the colors go crazy again.

[computeruler]

ah ya, I remember that.  Being afraid to play a game or really do anything, without it doing that.  And the bsods, that was bad too.  Then I got windows 7.  Never been a problem since

[br3akth3w1nd]

Pf does it again, and if I minimize the game the colors on my desktop are also strange , and when I maximize the game again the colors are fixed (for 5min).

[Gremlin]

Try setting your desktop color depth at 256 color as alot of those older games run at that color depth.

[Quantos]

Try setting your desktop color depth at 256 color as alot of those older games run at that color depth.

It's not only the color depth that affects the older games, in many cases the display resolution has to match as well.