I had recently put a new graphics card in my laptop's dock's PCI (Not PCI-E) slot (PNY Nvidia Geforce 8400gs 512mb PCI), and ever since, I have been getting texture problems. I will play Halo normally for about 1-3 minutes, then, the textures all get mixed up, (EXAMPLE:in the PoA Mess hall, I'll be playing with normal textures, when suddenly the walls and floor change to the Golden Elite texture, or the Plasma pistol will have an escape pod texture, I mean everything has the wrong texture), and sometimes, after a few minutes of that, one texture will fill my screen (Like an arrow pointing to the bridge texture, or a red "curlback" grunt texture), and after a few seconds of that one fullscreen texture, my Computer will freeze. EVERYTHING is updated, Halo, Windows, DirectX, GPU Drivers, you name it, it's updated. I've also re-installed Halo a few times (sometimes with corrupted file repair, sometimes not, and some with the older files replacing the newer ones, and sometimes they don't), but with no results. This GPU has been in a computer before, with Halo working fine on it, and Halo worked fine on this laptop with a previous GPU. Please help me before I go crazy and smash the laptop against a wall. System Specs: Laptop Model: IBM Thinkpad T30 Dock: IBM Thinkpad Dock II Windows XP Professional SP3 40GB Hitachi IDE 2.5'' HDD 512mb DDR Laptop RAM PNY Nvidia Geforce 8400gs 512mb PCI 1.8GHz Pentium 4 M (M=Mobile) 1920x1080 Toshiba HDTV (But I play Halo at 800x600, the smallest my GPU will go)
Its probably the card not being installed right.It could also require a wipe and restore. Im not sure That card is compatible with Windows XP. Try messing around with Halo's graphic settings.
I guess that could be it. I got both ATI and NVidia drivers on the computer (the laptop has an integrated Radeon 7500 mobility 16mb, which was great for 16mb) which could conflict with each other.
Why would you have ATI drivers installed if you've got a nVidia card? I've had issues with uninstalling ATI drivers as well, so use this (choose the Binaries download) Run it and delete all ATI video drivers from your system. Afterwards reboot. http://phyxion.net/Driver-Sweeper/Driver-Sweeper/Version-3-2-0/
My laptop has an integrated ATI GPU, so it came with ATI drivers. But then I got a dock with a PCI slot in it and installed one of my old NVidia cards.
Right, but regardless, you need to uninstall the drivers you don't plan on using. You can always reinstall them later. Also, may I have the actual part number for your video card. Everywhere I read is that the Geforce 8400 GS is for PCIe 2.0 Edit: Ok found the right card.
This is a low-profile version that PNY made. the ones you're seeing aren't low profile nor passive cooling (I was short on money and my previous computer only had PCI slots)
Ok, I found the card. Some more things you could try are run dxdiag.exe, and check if DirectDraw and Direct3D are enabled. You could always try re-seating the card as well. Are there any other games you can try playing? Edit: Found some not particularly great information, but that dock can cause performance issues when trying certain cards: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkPad_Dock_II#Video_Cards
I read that page before buying the dock, but I saw a video on youtube with a laptop of my same model (Thinkpad T30) running Crysis with this same exact card and the same dock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Xmy3MARTE). I also did all the DXDiag tests a couple of days ago, but they were all successful. I also tried re-seating the card, but to no avail.
You absolutely must remove previous drivers prior to installing a new card. They *will* conflict and can cause severe problems. Normally, you want to uninstall your video drivers through the diagnostics screens as you boot (F10, usually) and then install your new card and drivers. There's no way to know for sure if the problem lies elsewhere until you correct this.
I agree with Aynine here, the drivers will most definitely conflict with eachother, remove the old ones first, I had problems with my video card and it turned out that there were updates that needed to be installed, try checking that your drivers are up to date as well as that might also be causing problems.
^That's already been said like 5 times. :derpe: If there are no errors and you've uninstalled the ATI drivers, you could try (redownload the nvidia drivers for the card first) boot into safe mode and try reinstalling them. If it still doesn't work right, you need to either try the card with another computer again, or call and get some troubleshooting from PNY (good luck because PNY never helps me). If it's still new, maybe you can file for an RMA and get a new one. Edit: and that guy in the video is not using the same exact card. He's using the PCI-E variant of the 8400 GS, with a PCI to PCI-E adapter. His card has 1024 MB of DDR3 memory compared to 512 MB DDR2 for the PCI variant. I'm not saying that this setup can't work, but you will not get the same result this guy has. Couple that with the fact that external video card setups run slower (it's a half speed PCI slot), it looks sketchy to me.
Actually, mike, My card is DDR3. You must have found the variant with a fan. Mine has a silent cooler (no fan)
