Is this a video card problem?

[Schming]

On games like JO and now Black n White the text shows up all garbled. The games run fine but the text is messed up. I have a Voodoo 3000 and I know its crap but I dont feel like spending money. Would this be the problem or should I become more apt to shoot for better than basement bargain copies?

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[Avenger]

Yes, your card is shot. You're going to have to get a new one.

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[BV]

Card isn't shot, it just sucks.

[Commander Hunt]

I don't think it is shot... I had that problem when I had *ducks head* WinME on my harddrive and it would happen in ST Elite Force, but when i bought a new HDD and installed Win2kPro on it and ran ST Elite Force everything was fine. But I have a RADEON 8500. Try running a thorough scanddisk, then defrag... You may have some corrubted files.

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[Trigger Happy Chewie]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BV:
Card isn't shot, it just sucks.</font>

ROFL!

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[GHORG]

i kinda had that when i deleted half my windows directory, including fonts dir cos i was gonna completely reinstall windows

but then i couldn't be bothered so i left it like that and fonts were screwed up here and there

[MikeC]

There are no new drivers made by 3dfx, but there are a lot of updated drivers made by other users for the voodoo cards. You might look into those.

BTW - shouldn't this be in the tech forum?

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[BV]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by BV:
Card isn't shot, it just sucks.</font>

Well, that was a bit harsh, sorry. http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif I had the exact same problem, but there isn't a fix for it (as far as I know.) I bought a new card instead.

[Snoopfighter2]

dude i mean seriously how cheap can u be that card is so old, **** dude 60 bux will get u a geforce 2 mx which is hundreds of tiems better with 2nd Generation T&L, bump mapping, solid 60 fps and a whole lot more

[Tom]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Well, that was a bit harsh, sorry.</font>

Yeah. You meant to say
"Card isnt shot, but it should be. *passes Schming a gun*"
Right?

[Aglar]

Technology Forum, people. It's there for a reason.

[Is_907]

a friend of mine had this problem... he fixed it with a GeForce 4 Ti4200 =)