Hey all... Peculiar one here. I was racing fine in Patch U for a period of some hours, across two servers, with no problems. FPS in the 120-ish region, as normal. Then, suddenly, the system slows down dramatically - down to just 5/10 fps... then, LFS crashes.

I restarted it, but it had big trouble starting - wouldn't open three times - then when it did open, I thought it was OK... menus responded ok, etc. etc. So, I logged back into the server, and saw this:

http://www.lazerfx.co.uk/images/lfs_graphics_glitch.jpg
117kb jpeg, 1280x800

Again, the frame rate was abysmal, but the graphics were the worst thing about it

I've just had this, so I've posted now - I'll re-post to let you know if, after a reboot, it solves the problem. This system is a laptop, and it's not currently running at a high-heat level.

Spec: Turion MT32 (1.8Ghz), 1GB PC-3200, 80GB Samsung HD, External 250GB HD, ATI x700 mobillity 128MB, PC-Card Audigy2ZS. Temps in the green when error occured, ATI power-saving turned off. WinXP SP2, ATI Catalyst 6.4 (Oblivion "Chuck" Patch) - runs Oblivion at 1280x800 at around 25fps outside, so plenty of power to spare.

Check the heat on the graphics card. They look like heat-related artifacts to me, which would suggest that the card has just died. Have you confirmed with other games? If so try redownloading LFS and starting again.

I have been getting this since the latest patch, installing newer graphics drivers seems to have sorted it.

I got this now and then and it seemed more since the patch upgrade. Usually after I've been running LFS for a good bit of time. The only thing that helped me was to reboot the entire machine. I would also see it in other games if I closed LFS and tried something else before rebooting (not exactly, but would get crappy looking textures and dropped framerate to almost nothing in FS2004). I was running ATI Catalyst 5.11 drivers and recently upgraded to 6.4. I haven't seen this problem since the driver upgrade.

had kinda the same problem, underclocked slightly, it was still there, put after shift + F4ing it reloaded everything, and the corruption of the tooo oced gfx card ws gone!

Hmm... Thanks for the responses, however, as I mention in my original post:

1. I'm not OC'd.
   
2. I'm not overheated (I use several monitors to check temps).
   
3. I'm running the latest Catalysts (6.4's), and I see no sense in destroying my ability to run Oblivion (Dropping a good 5-10fps) on the off-chance that it's this that is causing problems in LFS.

It's happened twice to me so far. I have played quite a bit on LFS, about 30 hours or so, and it's only happened twice... once I thought was something else (I'd closed/restarted LFS about 10 times in quick succession), but this time I'd been racing for a good few hours continuous without restarting...

Quote from LazerFX :

Hmm... Thanks for the responses, however, as I mention in my original post:

1. I'm not OC'd.
   
2. I'm not overheated (I use several monitors to check temps).
   
3. I'm running the latest Catalysts (6.4's), and I see no sense in destroying my ability to run Oblivion (Dropping a good 5-10fps) on the off-chance that it's this that is causing problems in LFS.

It's happened twice to me so far. I have played quite a bit on LFS, about 30 hours or so, and it's only happened twice... once I thought was something else (I'd closed/restarted LFS about 10 times in quick succession), but this time I'd been racing for a good few hours continuous without restarting...

Hi,
to me it looks like graphic memory overheating as you have texture corruption.Sadly you cant check the memory temps:-(.
What are your GPU temps?

If I am right you said that you have that corruption usually after playing some time.This definatelly show towards overheating.

GPU/CPU temp, when running full-tilt in a program like Oblivion, hover around 55C... in LFS, the GPU temp is more around 50C, though CPU is still at about 55C.

I'd be surprised if it's overheating, and the system as a whole does not appear to be running particularly hot - warm to the touch, but as it's a laptop (http://www.targa.co.uk/cms/targa_2_459.php?produkt_id=383 if you're interested) that's to be expected.

I will say that I've run the laptop in extended gaming sessions (8 hours of Oblivion, at least ) that stress it far more than this - if you've seen the graphics and CPU requirements of Oblivion, you'll know what I mean - and that haven't given a glitch...