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Pink/purple textures in games

octiceps
Level 7
Well, my G73JH seems to be giving me all sorts of random problems lately. First it was BSODing after being put to sleep, and now this:



For no apparent reason I'm getting pinkish purple textures in games. Above screenshot is from Half-Life 2: Lost Coast but this happens in all games. Anybody else ever experience this? Specs are in my sig below.
ASUS G73Jh | Intel Core i7-740QM | ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 1GB GDDR5 | 6GB Hynix DDR3-1333 | Seagate Momentus 640GB 5400 RPM HDD | HD+ 1600x900 Display | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 | vBIOS 93 | AMD Catalyst 12.3
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dstrakele
Level 14
What version video driver are you running?

How hot is the GPU when you observe these pinkish purple textures?
G74SX-A1 - stock hardware - BIOS 202 - 2nd Monitor VISIO VF551XVT

dstrakele wrote:
What version video driver are you running?

How hot is the GPU when you observe these pinkish purple textures?


Running Catalyst 11.10. GPU was around 65 C when it happened.

I think I may have found the root case of this. Apparently the Source engine will do this when you Alt+Tab out of the game too many times or go back to the desktop in the middle of the game using the Windows key. Someone on another forum told me about this and I was able to recreate the problem by task switching a few times mid-game.
ASUS G73Jh | Intel Core i7-740QM | ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 1GB GDDR5 | 6GB Hynix DDR3-1333 | Seagate Momentus 640GB 5400 RPM HDD | HD+ 1600x900 Display | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 | vBIOS 93 | AMD Catalyst 12.3

underworld
Level 8
But you may still to need update your drivers for graphic card.
Asus G51J 3D | Asus G74SX-TZ

underworld wrote:
But you may still to need update your drivers for graphic card.


I've read the release notes for the new Catalysts; none of them address this purple texture issue in Source games and I'm not experiencing any of the other issues that the new drivers are supposed to fix. Why fix what ain't broke?
ASUS G73Jh | Intel Core i7-740QM | ATI Mobility Radeon 5870 1GB GDDR5 | 6GB Hynix DDR3-1333 | Seagate Momentus 640GB 5400 RPM HDD | HD+ 1600x900 Display | Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 | vBIOS 93 | AMD Catalyst 12.3