SCV Laser Light Show Graphic Artifacts

[TerranItUp633]

IMA FIRIN MAH LAZA

[KevinWHuang]

I've only recently begun to experience this problem, and nothing changed with my graphics driver. Maybe it's because of the new series of patches?

[grrargghh]

My hp envy with ati hd 5650 does some of this stupid shit. How the hell do we fix it?

[evans387]

@grrargghh did u ever figure out how to fix it?

[grrargghh]

@evans387 Yeah I completely uninstalled the drivers with driver sweeper and then reinstalled them.

[evans387]

@grrargghh i must've not uninstalled all of them, the issue persists... i have an odd integrated + dedicated gpu setup so maybe my situation is unique :(

[HuckOrris]

Had this problem with my laptop DV-6 3143us with an Ati HD5650. Tried darn near everything. Was considering reinstalling windows, and a bunch of big games, updates, etc (a ton of time). i unistalled my graphics driver and used driver sweeper. Saved me a HUGE headache.

[evans387]

@HuckOrris yo how'd u uninstall your graphics driver? wouldn't u just re-download the current driver or the 2nd latest driver instead?

[HuckOrris]

@evans387 I downloaded "driver sweeper". It completely removed the drivers. I guess sometimes when installing a gfx driver update, not all the old files are removed or something. Then you just install the latest (or best) gfx driver.

[richcoolerearth]

Good god. I just got this glitch for the first time today.

[richcoolerearth]

Good god. I just got this glitch for the first time today.

[richcoolerearth]

Good god. I just got this glitch for the first time today.

[DnizzlRus]

mass defence drones

[TheMeditatedCoin]

ugh i cant find drivers for my toshiba :/ it has a ati readon 4200

[johnchen0213]

its just raining... stop complaining lol

[86jshields]

the only thing that fixed the issue was removing his Catalyst Control Center and drivers then reinstalling them.

[Soneoak]

I'm using HD6870 and its doing this shit too, its damn irritating, just reinstalled the drivers too, didn't show this when i was using a crappier nvdia card

[MrTheLoading]

have the same whill react when one of those guides below works :)

[Jayremy89]

I wish my SCVs were that cool, disco-laser-techno-rave.

[MrKHoIe]

@Jayremy89 believe me, it gets really annoying after like a week...

[BlueSpirals]

VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM:

If you have an ATI Radeon Mobile graphics card, simply:

-uninstall all your Radeon drivers and ESPECIALLY the Catalyst garbage

-check your device manager's Display Adapters and make sure radeon is not listed (so you know everything is uninstalled)

-restart your computer

-if it's windows 7, it will reinstall the graphics drivers without Catalyst (good thing)

-play SC

if it's vista/XP, download the drivers without Catalyst from the AMD website

[madamegehirngulasch]

found a solution on the blizzard forums and it really worked and solved everything

"1. DL Driver Sweeper

2. DL latest Drivers with CCC(don't install yet)

3. Run the driversetup so you can uninstall existing drivers via the CCC install/uninstall.

4. Restart computer into safe mode

5. Run Drive Sweeper and delete all ATI driver remnants only

6. Boot into normal mode and install new drivers and CCC then restart again

7. Profit"

credits to lattus the original poster

[warnec1]

Have the same thing. That's not funny :( Radeon HD 5650 Mobile, latest driver

[guennbrot]

xD scv rave

[Arsenij19883011]

I have same problem. I tried to reinstall my system "win7" and its help for one mounth. But now same shit :/

[ghostsquad1212]

@OPmind. I tried your solution, it didn't work. I did get it resolved though by installing ATI 10.8 drivers (after a clean uninstall using Driver Sweeper). Also, if any has problems with their primary monitor being at 50% brightness in 10.7 or 10.8 driver sets, do a factory restore in CCC to fix that problem.

[RedicalFunk]

Haha that's trippy bro.

[YoungFree213]

"My SCV goes pew pew?"

[trema12345]

nice light show

[0Pmind]

Try my solution... hope it works watch?v=Qq2IPdwADWo

[BFGfreak]

Oh don't worry, their just showing off their little death ray's they have on the suit, they don't use them because "it wouldn't be fair"

[Programtimeconsuming]

What do you use to record?

[MaxxPowers416]

@Programtimeconsuming I used Fraps to record.

[Jasian1000]

did somebody say rave?

[MaxxPowers416]

A little info...

I'm running two HD 4850s in CrossFire. I suspected overheating at first but it wasn't. My cards were around 50 Celsius at full load.

Reinstalling the drivers normally doesn't fix the problem.

To remedy this situation, install Driver Sweeper, boot to Safe Mode, delete all graphics driver entries. Reboot into Windows normally and install the latest drivers.

[evans387]

@MaxxPowers416 Hey thanks for the info, but for everyone else experiencing this issue, I'd just like to emphasize that this fix won't work unless every last driver entry is cleaned using DS. I only removed "file" entries at the risk of destabilizing my gpu, but the issue persisted. Like Maxx said, ALL entries must be cleaned.

Thanks for the vid and the post and happy gaming!

[clanboru15]

this is your video card over heating. Check the TL forums for a fix

[samurai1200]

its a terran disco party