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[Peregrine700]

Green squares are caused by graphics cards overheating. I had the issue when running two 6600s way back when the bottom one would start producing them around 120*C  I'm surprised to hear any issues at 60-odd though. You either need to scale back the graphics or (seeing it's a laptop) find somewhere cooler to play. Maybe a bar fridge.

Edit: It might be worth seeing if your nVidia control panel has a temp monitoring page and switching to it when things go green.

Edit 2: I just had another thought - check the laptop power settings and make sure everything is getting full power for when you play.

Modifié par Peregrine700, 12 février 2010 - 04:43 .

[Mole267]

Try using latest Nvidia drivers, I think they're 196.21

I was having all kinds of problems with the previous drivers; bluescreens and artifacting mostly. Plus, the nvidia icon that's supposed to be in the taskbar wasn't there.

also try nHancer. Here's the link to find it, and the profile for ME2 to make AA work properly. Might help, maybe.

BTW, do you have a EVGA videocard? If you do, you need EVGA Precision and turn the fan speed up to 80-100%. Where ever you feel comfortable with temps and noise level from the fan. If you use another brand, go to their website and see if they have a utility to adjust fan speed... Like the previous poster said, it could be a heat issue.

Also, try running the game in a borderless window, you can set that up under masseffect2config.exe

Modifié par Mole267, 12 février 2010 - 05:03 .

[Forest03]

I mentioned the heat issue earlier; but as the poster stated, these spots only show up in ME1, ME2, and Bad Company. The video card handles games with heavier tasks without ever showing the green blips. In any case, these don't render in the the same way (neither as large, as slow, nor as persistent) as any overheating anomalies I've seen. Plus, on a laptop, it's bound to simply lock up due to lack of ventilation, rather than sustain performance.



Re: Having no visual differences when toggling nVidia control panel. - You might not have completely uninstalled the previous version of whatever drivers you had before. Use the nVidia uninstaller if there is one provided. Otherwise, use the Add/Remove Programs control panel to remove all nVidia utilities currently installed. Manually move the files to the recycling bin if you have to. Also, don't let Windows install any video drivers for you once you've rebooted. Keep offocial nVidia releases as your baseline drivers while testing the game settings.

[Haasth]

Latest drivers for laptops is 195.62. I figured I could give it one more shot and did a clean driver reinstallation... no success. I also decided to try out all my games I have installed currently and see if it occurs on any of them.

Sadly I found out it also occurs in Dawn of War 2... Which I originally thought of that it didn't. Out of 6 games (Sins of a Solar Empire, Heroes of Newerth, Dawn of War 2, Mass Effect 2 (Well... also 1), Dragon Age: Origins and Bad Company 2 Beta) half of them have this. Heroes of Newerth, Sins and Dragon Age do not have this. (Last I checked Dragon Age at least... wont let me play anymore... apparently all my DLC got magically unauthorized... can't be bothered fixing all that)

Changing power settings didn't do much either. Lastly I don't know who manufactured my graphical card. When I try to look it up it simply says 'unknown'. 

Borderless didn't do anything either. 

Think this would be a hardware problem? If so I am probably going to the store where I got it from and see if they can have a look at my graphic card - I can't really have a look at it myself because then I'll ruin the warranty and such. 

Modifié par Haasth, 12 février 2010 - 02:03 .

[Forest03]

Were you able to override the graphical settings at all through the control panel, or is that still not responding?



I can't think of how hardware errors can show up in one game but not another, but take it back to the store anyway. It's good to make sure once and for all. While you're there, ask them if they can recommend any free diagnostic software for your own future use.

[Haasth]

Still seemed to make no difference when I tried it out. At least nothing I could notice visually or any other way.

[Herethos]

I'm starting to think its a hardware issue, I don't think doing any more messing around with drivers, software etc will change anything. I'd have it checked out/replaced if/while there is still warranty. Take it to the store and show them the glitch or something.

[cackozz]

Hello, i am having the same problem with the green dots and some black squares from time to time.
The thing is i played ME1 & ME2 week ago and all went smooth on medium graphics (since i`m running it on p4 3000mhz with 2gb ram and geforce 6800 gt 256mb ddr3).And then i needed to reinstall windows. when all was set up(drivers etc.) installed ME1 & ME2 and BAM green dots -.-. Been 3 days trying to find a solution on forums and no luck.

So i`m just guessing it might have to do of the version of windows and stuff...

Hopefully some one will come up with a solution.

cheers.

[Haasth]

Funny thing is... I haven't had it checked out yet as I don't really see the need much at the moment. It still preforms beautifully and I managed to get rid off it in Dawn of War 2 simply by turning post processing off. That fixed it for me, alas Mass Effect 2 has no option. But I can run Dawn of War 2 without green dots now on everything maxed out.

[bocanegra79]

HI there!
I've got the same issue . I'am running the game on an 9800gtx+ 1gb. Factory clock settings, no overclock, fans at max speed. The dots appears ONLY in ME2. I tried the latest nvidia driver, beta driver, but no changes. Tomorrow I'll reinstall win7,it maybe works..
There is one thing that I noticed, that GIGABYTE's GAMER HUD software (came with the video card), stopped working from day to day, some of it's features has disappeared. Tried to reinstall but it remains the same (I can not set gpu clock anymore)..

[gunfood]

I've had these green flashing dots in two games. Bioshock and DoW 2.



In both cases i think it was the patching that made them appear. Cause I played several hours with no issues and the next day, prolly after a patch to the game, there they were.



I run two 4870 in XF and I got rid of the dots simply by go in to CCC, look up AA and let it be decided by the software in the game.



Hope it helps

[Haasth]

Lately I've been having this on almost every game I play except for a few older ones. Combined with random FPS drops that make me go from 60+ to about 5 or so... Thing is, it's not a big problem as turning off a certain setting mostly makes the dots disappear and the freeze thing apparently is caused if I put my resolution higher than 1280x1024.



If anyone knows a possible solution that is much appreciated. I guess I'll just have to send it in to get fixed one of these days though.

[AphekT]

I know this is an old thread but I had the same problem, only with red spots. It was NOT overheating, although I understand that this could be a symptom of that in other cases. In my case it was my global configuration in nVidia's control panel. I returned the settings to their default and the problem ceased immediately. Hope this helps someone.