Odd...

Download ATi Tool and run an artifact scan.

Wesker776

I downloaded the ATi Tool and am running an artifact scan now, but I don't actually understand what it's doing... Could someone tell me what an artifact is, exactly?

Those sound like screen artifacts.

Have you checked how hot your card was getting under load? I'm guessing that it would be heat related becuase it;s happening after playing for a while.

G013M

I did check how hot it was a few times - there was an increase in temperature, but I can't remember how dramatic. I'll get round to checking again soon. So, is my best option to get a new graphics card?

My computer is probably about 18 months old now. It's got 1GB of RAM, an AMD Athlon 3500+ Processor and a GeForce 7600 GS graphics card. I got Oblivion for it when I got the PC in the first place, and I could run the graphics at full-pelt and there'd be no problems. After about 6 months I started seeing what I can only describe as "small patches of red wiggly lines" appearing all over the screen after playing the game for about 20 minutes or so. I turned down the graphics options and it still happened. It also did it on loads of other games. I had no idea why it did it, so I just stopped bothering with the PC games. Now I thought I'd have a look at it and it still does the same thing. I'm not very technical with this sort of stuff, but I guessed it might be a hardware problem.

So, if anyone could help me by telling me why it might be doing this and how I might be able to fix it, I'd be really grateful.

Cheers.