Graphics issue with PC faces

[AngelofHatred]

So I downloaded the update on Sept. 1st and logged in. When I got to the character select screen i noticed that all of my characters faces are either thousands of multi colored pixels or just black. Also if i see a Player Character from a distance their whole body is pixels. If they are up close only their face. Hirelings are messed up too. All NPCs are fine in the game. I have lowered my graphics and checked to make sure i have my latest drivers which i do. I have 4 gigs of RAM and my graphics card is Nvidia 8800 GTX. I can not figure out why this is happening.

[Strakeln]

I'd suggest a reinstall. If that doesn't do the trick, it sounds to me like your video card might be on the edge of dying (I'm no expert).

[AngelofHatred]

i have reinstalled and i have dual Nvidia 8800GTX there is no way they are both bad i have switched back and forth between them and it does not change. Also there was no problem the day before when i was playing. Just after the update.

[Strakeln]

My dual 8800GTs just started acting funny one day out of the blue. Some change to a game I was playing (apparently) increased the graphics load and caused them to overheat, I think. That's how I learned that the fans are usually configured to run at 35-40%. I manually set my new card to run at 90%, has helped immensely with keeping the heat down.

The only other thing I could think of is, maybe there's some DX9/DX10 issue here? Not exactly sure how that might manifest itself.

[AngelofHatred]

how do i manually set the fans to run higher?

[Strakeln]

Note that I don't think increasing your fan speed will help at all with your problem (though I think it's a good idea for everyone).

If you don't have software from the manufacturer to control the fan speed, I hear the program "SpeedFan" works well, though I haven't tried it myself.