Hey.
I've just experienced a rather odd problem. Whilst playing Half-Life 2 (this was almost directly after a level change) the ingame sound suddenly became horribly corrupted - static, fluctuation, the works. I figured it might be a problem with my audio drivers or something, so I closed HL2 and quit back to the desktop. Now I start to get worried - the desktop is flickering in a very odd manner. Not artifacting, just flickering, kind of like a bad signal on a TV. At this point I did a hard reboot and it seems to be back to normal. The only hardware change I've made recently is the installation of a new X1950GT, and it hasn't done this on any game before. I took some GPU readings after I quit, and they read at around 40 degrees C, which doesn't seem too bad. I don't overclock (CPU or GPU), and I have plenty of case cooling. Any ideas what might be up?
Specs:
Cheers.
I've just experienced a rather odd problem. Whilst playing Half-Life 2 (this was almost directly after a level change) the ingame sound suddenly became horribly corrupted - static, fluctuation, the works. I figured it might be a problem with my audio drivers or something, so I closed HL2 and quit back to the desktop. Now I start to get worried - the desktop is flickering in a very odd manner. Not artifacting, just flickering, kind of like a bad signal on a TV. At this point I did a hard reboot and it seems to be back to normal. The only hardware change I've made recently is the installation of a new X1950GT, and it hasn't done this on any game before. I took some GPU readings after I quit, and they read at around 40 degrees C, which doesn't seem too bad. I don't overclock (CPU or GPU), and I have plenty of case cooling. Any ideas what might be up?
Specs:
- AMD Athlon64 3700+ @2.2GHz
- 1gb OCZ Gold
- ASUS A8S-X
- Sapphire Radeon X1950GT 256mb
- SoundMax AC'97 Audio
- 2x 160gb HDDs (One Maxtor, one Seagate)
- 1x 36gb WD Raptor
- Samsung LightScribe DVD+/-RW
- Enermax NoiseTaker 480w PSU
- 19" Daewoo WS TFT @ 1440x900
- CoolerMaster Centurion 5 Case
Cheers.