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pprior

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Aug 1, 2007
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After prolonged play I start getting all kinds of graphical artifacts - large swathes of grey boxes and distortion and unable to see.

If I hit esc and go to the menu and sit for a second it goes away, but then quickly recurs. Doesn't happen at all unless I play for a long period of time.

I saw the same problem in the past with a passively cooled vid card on an old PC I had - I think it's the chipset/graphics card overheating.

I have the X1900 in a Mac Pro 3ghz machine. I don't really hear the fan ramping up too much on the machine however.

Is there a way to manually crank up the fan when playing, or at least to check whether it's speeding up as it should?

I am running 1600x1200 with 3x AA and other options fairly high. The system runs fine with good frame rate, until it overheats.
 
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