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Kincaid
08-21-2011, 05:43 AM
<p>Hi there,</p><p>Starting Saturday, the sky in Great Divide and Eastern Wastes has started to pixelate, only the sky in those two zones, nothing else I seen thusfar.  This effect is in all performance settings.</p><p>I am running:</p><p>Processor - Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q660 @2.40GHz (2.40 GHz)</p><p>Ram - 4.00 GB</p><p>System Type - 32 bit</p><p>GFX card - Nvidia Geforce GTS 450</p>

TSR-JoshuaM
08-22-2011, 01:17 PM
<p><cite>Fibonacci@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hi there,</p><p>Starting Saturday, the sky in Great Divide and Eastern Wastes has started to pixelate, only the sky in those two zones, nothing else I seen thusfar.  This effect is in all performance settings.</p><p>I am running:</p><p>Processor - Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q660 @2.40GHz (2.40 GHz)</p><p>Ram - 4.00 GB</p><p>System Type - 32 bit</p><p>GFX card - Nvidia Geforce GTS 450</p></blockquote><p>I'd describe my experience the same way, pixelated sky, but the issue I have is heating related.  My GPU overheats regularly due to my lack of upkeep in my home computer, lol!</p><p>Would you mind getting Nvidia System Tools and taking a GPU temp reading?  Get a few readings, when you start playing, after a long period of time has passed, and when you see the sky pixelated.</p><p>Also, just to cover the basics, if you are using an older patch method or the Full download version (not streaming) you can delete teh Great Divide and EW files directly from the PAKS folder (the LaunchPad will redownload them) and delete the Cache folder to eliminate the potential of a corrupt file causing this.</p>