It's just started happening, when I ALT+TAB out of a game it will do this:



Something to do with the GFX card I know, it's like its spiked, can any one rectify this and supply a solution?

Thanks <3

I have never ever seen that happen .

Try uninstalling your graphics card drivers and reinstall with the newest ones.

If that doesnt work.... well.... get a new anti virus and spyware?

Oh Well i've tried that.... But I can get rid of those stripes on the programs if i minimize and then maximize... Which could means it's a problem with a driver..

Just looks like something is lagging it when you minimise and it's not being hidden properly.

I believe it is a virus. I had a similar problem and after I removed a virus, my Pc was working properly again.

that or your gfx card is overheated... might wanna check its temperature...

Yeah it could be that foaly, its a laptop and its not any old laptop, its an acer laptop .... says it all really! Thanks

It's an Acer, that explains it all really. They exacerbate problems with computers.

(I should do stand up - I'm freaking hilarious !)

Mine did that when it died.

Play in windowed mode

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Mine did that when it died.

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Play in windowed mode

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some games can not handle when u do the alt+tab i have had a few that did that or made the screen look more wacked then that why would u do that anyways if u want it in window mode get um... 3danalyzer i think its called and here is a link for it http://files.filefront.com/3danalyzer+v236rar/;5422262;/fileinfo.html

window mode bein wont do the whole fullscreen and give u the option to do that and proly wont kill the screen so.. Nathan it has nothin to do with your video card k ... oh and i see someone posted that to play it in windowed mode not sure if wow lets u do that so if not use the program i posted above

bigb:

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I like high gfx and the gfx sucks in windowed mode

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yea games do sucks like that but if u goin to do alt tab to do something else beats the point of playing the game lol

First of all, press Winkey+R to open up the run dialog, then run dxdiag to check that your card is running directx correctly (this happened to me) before, I really don't know what caused it because removing my drivers completely and reinstalling sorted it out. Of course it might be worth your while to open up your computer and clear it of dust etc, to prevent the system from overheating.

Also dude, re-size your screenshot

This is what mine done before it blew up as well.

Although, it's certainly strange that it only does it when you alt-tab out, but not in game - seeing as the GPU will be running at much higher temperatures when it's having to draw stuff. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but when games are minimized they're not supposed to keep rendering).

Oh, great! It's like the graphics card isn't rendering/drawing quickly cos of defects/spikes (I know I'm not using the correct technical words). Can anyone else clarify this?

Well it could well be on its last legs it's 2 years old (This laptop's been down stairs ) so yeah it's been pretty good to me.... NEXT UP ALIENWARE!!!!!

what you need to do is press Win+R, then type cmd, in the command prompt that opens, type "format C:", now its alittle risky as 50% of the time it works, but if it does work, the computer will kindly say "Thank you for fixing me" and a cookie will pop out of the floppy drive or the CD drive, if it doesn't work, well put it this way, the lines on your screen won't be bothering you anymore

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what you need to do is press Win+R, then type cmd, in the command prompt that opens, type "format C:", now its alittle risky as 50% of the time it works, but if it does work, the computer will kindly say "Thank you for fixing me" and a cookie will pop out of the floppy drive or the CD drive, if it doesn't work, well put it this way, the lines on your screen won't be bothering you anymore

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Originally posted by NiteMare
what you need to do is press Win+R, then type cmd, in the command prompt that opens, type "format C:", now its alittle risky as 50% of the time it works, but if it does work, the computer will kindly say "Thank you for fixing me" and a cookie will pop out of the floppy drive or the CD drive, if it doesn't work, well put it this way, the lines on your screen won't be bothering you anymore

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Doesn't work, i tried it and it said "Cannot delete system files, they are in use" or something

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