My computer's video card has gone bad, and caused my computer to work at about 1/100 of it's former capability. Until I can either get the card repaired or replaced, I might be out of the loop for a few days.

Lesson Learned;

WHy settle for only one gaming PC? If it fails, you're shit outa luck for a few days.

Buy a secondary gaming PC. They are cheap as hell tehse days, youcan get a top end PC for 800$ or so. I have 3 PCs, and a laptop. You can never have too many!

As you were. Problem fixed.

You may resume your buffs and C&C spells. ;)

As I was.. :? I'm still having massive problems with this PoS.

I keep getting blocks, dots, and blurred images. But they aren't always a constant.

Any idea people?

Your graphics card is probably overheating. Have you ever taken a peek inside your computer case? In case you haven't, there's probably tons and tons of dust causing the components to gather more heat.

I did this morning actually. I opened it up, cleaned it out, and reclosed it. 15 minutes after that, it went right back to being messed up. :x

My fans seem to be working, and I keep the house at a cool temperature (less my wife and daugher complain ;) ).

I doubt this is it, but I guess it never hurts to cover all of your bases. Are your card drivers out of date?

I updated them, Meldread, and it didn't seem to have any significant change.

I'm beginning to think the adapter card might be just shot. =/

Hey man, new vid cards are pretty darn cheap if you want to just spring for a new one. I'd go with newegg.com or aicmicro.com, two hardware sites I have bought tons from. newegg is my preference, their return policy is very good if there are any issues.

Given how long ago NWN was released, you can probably get a new vid card that can handle it easily for around 50 bucks.

What kind of card are you running now?

An old Radeon 9800.

That cheap.. you think? :?

Huh... I might just save myself the hassle.

Yeah, I have an NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS card and it does fine with NWN (I have a dual core Athlon 64 X2 processor and 2 gigs of RAM).

Here is a link to a listing of the GeForce 7300 GS's on newegg.com.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+106790717+1067919751&name=GeForce+7300GS

You can probably get a nicer card than this but just as an example, most of them are under $50.