RuneScape keeps turning monitor off?

[Leoo]

What I don't understand is how RuneScape was working fine months ago on HD mode (playing on fixed screen) but other since I've been trying to play RuneScape on my desktop computer, I'm able to play it fine for a few minutes but then the game freezes, turns to a grey screen and sometimes it turns of my monitor and restarts my computer, but this problem does not occur when I play on SD mode.

[Youmu]

This might probably be another one of those graphical glitches. Stay put with the regular SD mode for now.

 

I call it a glitch because I'm not sure what caused it. It should still work fine...

[Leoo]

My friend said the graphics card may be loose (out of place). Could this be the issue?

[Socrates]

My friend said the graphics card may be loose (out of place). Could this be the issue?

With my VERY limited knowledge of computer i'd say you most likely have something up with your graphics card. Try getting the latest drives and make sure it's all attacthed - although it's beyond me how it would come unattacthed.

That's all I can help with though, sorry!

You may have better luck in the tech and computers forum

[D. V. Devnull]

My friend said the graphics card may be loose (out of place). Could this be the issue?

Only if a contact on the graphics card is only intermittently connecting to the matching pin on the motherboard's slot for it. Just to be on the safe side, though, click your PC off long enough to open the case, drain the static (by touching the outside of the Power Supply casing in the PC) off your body, and reseating the graphics card back down into its' slot. And if you don't feel like you can do it on your own safely, get help from someone who has a ton of experience with doing things like this. B)

 

 

Just my honest opinion, but it is more than likely that what you're experiencing with your graphics card is just simply due to lack of competence at Jagex's HQ... Why? Because they wrote their own OpenGL library files and deposited them in a directory on your PC in order to give RuneScape the graphics support it has. Sadly, it seems to me that whatever they did in those files wasn't clean and proper, as there has been a mass epidemic of people having issues with RuneScape since the RuneTek 5 release. (Check the past 50 Tech Support pages in the RSOF if you don't believe me... I've been having to raise havoc for other reasons there.) Issues of which have ranged from shutdowns to disconnections to crashes to glitches to etc. ... The list goes on and on, and it ain't fun at all... Knowing my luck, somebody at Jagex HQ doesn't want to uphold Mod MMG's words about Java Compatibility, and is trying to force everyone out there to buy new hardware and upgrade their software, even when they can't for some reason or another. :(

 

~Mr. D. V. "But that's just my proof-driven conspiracy theory..." Devnull

 

 

(p.s.: Sticking in a report to have this thread moved to Tech&Comp... Like the above person suggested, you might get better help there.)

[Racheya]

Moving this thread to the Tech forums so you'll get better feedback :)

 

~Racheya

[OldJoe]

I'm thinking overheating cpu/gpu.

Download CoreTemp and GPU-Z.

[D. V. Devnull]

I'm thinking overheating cpu/gpu.

Download CoreTemp and GPU-Z.

Perhaps add SpeedFan to that list? :huh:

 

~Mr. D. V. "Maybe that one can help, too?" Devnull

[OldJoe]

I'm thinking overheating cpu/gpu.

Download CoreTemp and GPU-Z.

Perhaps add SpeedFan to that list? :huh:

 

~Mr. D. V. "Maybe that one can help, too?" Devnull

Just listed those two. I never use SpeedFan, so i didn't list it.

[gorofujita]

I'm thinking overheating cpu/gpu.

Download CoreTemp and GPU-Z.

Perhaps add SpeedFan to that list? :huh:

 

~Mr. D. V. "Maybe that one can help, too?" Devnull

Just listed those two. I never use SpeedFan, so i didn't list it.

 

That may be it, but why would that also turn the monitor off...?

[Sbrideau]

The only one that has been able to give me the most logical temperatures and on every computer (not like speedfan that gives me the good temperatures on one computer but impossible temperatures on my other computers), is hardware monitor : http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

[Vidi]

I highly doubt your graphics card is loose. I mean, for it to become loose would mean you'd have to had moved your PC about a lot, and your problems would happen 24/7 if it did. It is probably over heating. I'm not 100% sure if this is possible, but a possible explanation for why the monitor turns off might be because the graphics card is hitting a fail safe, a point where the card shuts its self off cause it's too hot and therefor the monitor has no input so it goes into idle/powersaving mode. This could also cause shut downs.

 

However, it could also be from driver problems. I was beta testing a game recently and I had big driver problems, to the point where my monitor went into idle mode, I think the drivers rebooted or something. So the drivers could also be the problem as well.

 

If it is over heating, clean out all the dust in your PC, preferably using a can of compressed air, a small dust cloth should be ok if you don't have one of those. Just don't let it cling on to anything in the PC.

 

To confirm if it's over heating download either Speedfan, GPU-Z, HWMonitor to monitor graphics levels and post your temps here.

[Mil]

Something like this happened to me too quite recently. For a few weeks, every time I played a graphic intensive game, I would get intermittent periods of lag. After that, my graphics card blew up; 3 capacitors had blown.

You might want to check if there is any fluffy stuff coming out of the capacitors.