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According to the ati control center the gpu temp is 49 to 55 depending on how hard I run it, 60 when I was testing the card for stability. CPU is running around 52. I've got 6 120mm fans for cooling the case. I've got an ultra x2 750watt power supply. I'm "fairly" sure the gpu isn't overheating. I've run most of my games at the highest graphics settings and the only one to give me any problems is C&C 3/kane's wrath. I mean I understand it's possible but I just don't see how when everything else runs flawlessly.I've done hours of WoW on the highest settings raiding. If that wouldn't cause a crash from overheating I don't know what would. I clean the case out once a month and have filters on the fans to catch what I can. For the xp hard drive, all I did was install xp and update it, install c&c 3 and update it, update the video card to it's latest version, and tried playing. Everything went nuts so I uninstalled the latest drivers, swept the system to get everything, then got the last version I knew worked at least on the old card. C&C still went nuts. I tried it again this morning for giggles and most of the structures were bouncing up and down, most of the infantry was half invisible, the tiberium was flicking aka usual glitches. I played for awhile and all of a sudden the screen went grey with vertail grey and black stripes. That I could see being an overheating gpu or memory leak/glitch but I don't see how when the temps never get too high. I'm going to try putting the old card back in and see if the game goes nuts or not. thank you all for any and all help or advice.

to clean the old drivers I used the control panel and then drive sweeper to make sure. The card seems to run everything else fine except Starcraft. Everything in that game is off in color or just looks weird. It runs Sins of a solar empire, WoW, Civ4, Fallout 3 and Bioshock1-2 really well.. The card isn't running hot as far as I can tell watching its temp. Only thing I can think off is some setting is different now or that C&C just doesn't like my card or it's drivers. Another thing I noticed is the twitching/shaking keeps happening even if I open the menu and the game "pauses". The ground itself is fine but the roads or trees or buildings continue flickinger or vanishing except for a few parts or moving up and down rapidly. No idea what that means.

I upgraded my video card to the radeon 5770. C&C 3/kane's wrath now has some serious issues anytime I play it. The tiberium, trees, and most structures flicker, are not there at all, are half there, or everything seems to vibrate or shake like there's an earthquake on the screen. I used to have the x1950 and everything worked fine. I can't seem to find anything on the new about the 5770 not being supported or causing issues. I've tried using earlier ati drivers as well as the latest drivers. I've tried running it with aa off/on, open gl triple buffering off/on, and at different refresh rates. I've tried running it under XP as well as Vista. I cleaned out all the old ati files before using the different drivers. Anyone have any ideas or advice? I love playing the games but the flickering and twitching make it impossible. XP/Vista on different hard drives. ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard AMD phenom 9950 2.6g XFX HD-577A-ZNFC Radeon HD 5770 (Juniper XT) 4gig ram directx 10 I've patched the games to the latest patches.