Quake3World

So for some reason or other starting a few days ago, my display got all messed up.

Basically what happens is that on any line of text or graphics, there is a very faint grey smudge of it that goes across the screen. Im not sure how to fix this problem.

I have a TNT2 32mb graphics card running WinXP pro. I tried changing moniters, and its the same thing. Yeah I know its cruddy, but I dont need anything more.

I've tried going to Nvidia's website and downloading the latest driver exe file. But on setup it stops because it cannot locate any drivers for my current hardware or something like that. Which is weird because I thought it IS the driver???

Anyway, thank you for any help. This should give a rough idea of what is going on:

is the text blurry? or is it actually sharp and you can see the letters all the way across the sceen? How new is your monitor?

Text is pretty sharp. i cant see the letters all the way across the screen. It just looks like grey lines.

My moniter is almost 2 years old.

well, I'm guessing on the drive reinstall you uninstalled through Add/Remove, then rebooted. Then used Drive Cleaner Pro to completely remove. Then reset and tried to install the driver?

i uninstalled through Add/Remove and rebooted. I didnt use drive cleaner pro though...would it really make a difference?

the Cleaner simply removes every aspect of the driver..

persionally i dont think its the Driver, or the Videocard.. but hey, thats me.

any idea then?

I would have thought it would be the screen, but if you've tried others then it's most definately the videocard getting old/wearing out, I'd reckon.

do you have a spare, ANY spare videocard?

simply becuase i find it hard to beleve that this is the issue at all, out of all of the times that i have seen this, it was allways Due to the Monitor Rather then any piece of hardware.