Video card overheating?

I've been playing world of warcraft a lot, since the expansion came out on the 16th... and so far 3 times this: has happend.




When in fullscreen, when it's happend i have went windowed- and it stopped. A friend suggested it could be the video card overheating, but ive played for way longer before, and have been shutting it down at night. Should i be concerned?

i would doubt overheating if you can get it to stop when you change modes.

i'd guess some sort of conflict or corruption maybe?

Well, what should i do?

Stop playing WoW?

Just kidding, in the installation disks you'll find one that says "hardware test", follow the directions included. This will check the RAM and video card for any errors.

surfwax95 said:

Stop playing WoW?

Just kidding, in the installation disks you'll find one that says "hardware test", follow the directions included. This will check the RAM and video card for any errors.

Click to expand...

But she should probably stop playing WoW anyway. :bomb:

j/k

Yeah, and I need to stop playing Halo too...

hah hah hah! you guys are sooo funny.

pssh. doing the test now...

i did the startup with the disk to check for problems and it froze.

If you leave the computer static in OS X, do artifacts appear on the screen after a while?

The screen shot looks like a symptom off a knackered video chip, which may or may not be connected with overheating.

ah crap. i thought it was over but... it just did it again. No artifacts though.

Try Tech tool Delux (free with applecare). I would bet your video ram is acting funny.
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Well, thank you much I just ran it. Everything passed. I guess that is good

ah crap.... this is still happening alot. should i just contact apple?

is it still just when you're playing the game?

not a bad idea just to give them a ring.

yeah only with WoW fullscreened

have you tried messing with the video settings in the game, or looking for patches?

you can't play without the latest patch, so thats out.

You can mess with all kinds of video settings in the game, if you turn it all down your FPS goes way up. I have it all at default (which looks fantastic) but i guess i should give that a try.