FX5200: problem with games

Baalzamon

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Hello.

I have problem with my video card(GForce FX5200), it is quite old, but so far it has worked totally fine.
But few days ago first i noticed some video problems in Wold OF Warcraft.
Sometimes they appear when i start the game, sometimes in the middle, and sometimes there are none bugs at all. First i thought that it might me some driver issue, and I Have them updated, but that didnt fix a thing. I tried to reinstall drivers, but that has failed too.

two times when i started the game bugs were so severe that my computer froze and that monitor turned down, and i had to restart computer.

Video problems are more often in World Of Warcraft, but sometimes they appear in "Halo" too.

Here are some screenshoots, and I played WoW before and never had problems, now when i reinstalled after few days this appeared(with "Halo" too).

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Lower the settings on the game. Turn off V-sync, anti-aliasing, etc.. Ensure airflow, and clean off any dust or gunk on the heatsink/fan of the GPU, and while you're at it the CPU. Buy a new card. :P
 
FX5200's don't overheat from much things. I had one from 250/166 and OC'd to 270/220 and only saw very little artifacting.

Most likely it's dust and gunk.
 
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