On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:25:30 +0200, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>>>  4. Hardware fault on the graphics card (eg bad RAM)
>>>
>>> Surely that's a rather rare failure mode on a graphics card?
>>  Not if it has been overheating.
>
> True, but since the GPU generates far more heat than a block of RAM  
> does...

The GPU also has far better cooling. Modern high-performance RAM can get  
rather hot, particularly video RAM.





>>  Have you checked the temperature of the video RAM?
>
> I don't have a way to do that.

Try touching a VRAM chip (very briefly) while the game is running.



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