worked 4 a week now picture is blurred please help

[johngordon]

played game 4 a week and had the screensaver come on before no problem but this time when i moved the mouse to get picture back it was heavily blurred could make out outlines but that was it. the start up page 4 the game is ok until i move mouse over a function like options or load game then it shows the inside of box blurry cant say 4 sure but almosts looks like it has some double vision inside the blur i messed with resolution, colors, hertz, and updated drivers, restarted, uninstalled reinstalled nothing worked have gforce fx 5600 know it has 2 be something i can fix since i played 4 a week no prob use computers 4 games so not super savy but can do it with some help so if u have any ideas please respond thx g-roc


HAVE MY DIAG INCLUDED

[Pocus]

Sometime the latest drivers are not the best, especially for games which have more than one year. I would suggest you switch to the december 2007 Omega Driver, very stable (many use Omega Drivers, included myself):

http://www.omegadrivers.net/nvidia_winxp.php

[johngordon]

do i just install the new one over the old one?

[Pocus]

No remove the old one before, then reboot and install the new one, should be cleaner.
Windows comes with restoration points anyway, you can roll-back to the first driver if this changes nothing.

[johngordon]

diddnt do it still blurred

[Nikel]

Sorry if this sounds stupid I am not sure if I understand what you are saying.

But have you tried to use no screensaver at all?. Select it to none.

Or have you already tried it and it is still happening.

[johngordon]

tried that no luck, tried another game and did the samething could my video card be bad, will that make this happen, just wierd it messed up after a week best i describe picture is like this. its like the picture is diplayed by 1/3 of the pixels, the rest are just static instead of a picture so u can just barley make an outline the stuff on screen and that is it. i dont know alot about computers but it seems like only half the picture is being presented the rest is just static. does not do it outside of my games but is now doing it to all my games. is there another application that uses video card that i could run to see if the card is still good got it back in 2002

[johngordon]

just noticed on the start up screen with options, load game, etc that there seems to be 2 words that overlap on every word, what i am trying to say is for options there is the word options with a static o before the the word options just thought there may be something causing everything to double the second double being static thx for all help

[johngordon]

ran game and noticed my video card fan was not working how should i interpet this, does it mean my card is trashed

[Pocus]

This is indeed another indication that you should change it