Update: I no longer need help with this, I will just use an old graphics card and buy a new one when I can afford it. Thanks
Hey, thanks for reading. Even though I will mention FFXIV in this post, my problem is FFXI related, that comes a little down in the post, but it's all connected.
I think I messed up my PC. Let me explain from the beginning. I bought a PC to handle FFXIVARR better since in the beta my PC was running it pretty crappy. When I bought it, the guy asked if I wanted it overclocked, I said no since I heard it reduces the lifespan of your PC. Oh yeah, btw, I know very little about PCs, especially about overclocking, I know nothing about it.
So FFXIV comes out and with this new PC, I'm still going at like 15-20 frames per second. I know I can reduce the settings to make it run better, but I wanted it to look good. So I went into the ATI settings and turned on all the overclock settings. The game ran better but now I was getting the blue screen of death all the time.
Here's where FFXI comes in, I went to do my daily Repeat Login (unaware that the day before was the final day lol) for the first time since the overclock the day before. As soon as I went in, the game was completely messed up. The floors would flash when moving, going from invisible to a messed up version of the moghouse floor. The colors were very off, I don't know how to describe it, it was like if the colors were inverted then brightened. Also most NPCs, mobs and other stuff were missing graphics or mostly invisible, but you can still tell what they are. Moving is horrible cause it does a strobe light-like flash, hurts the eyes, have to look away from the screen constantly.
There were weird side effects though, I could see a TON of NPCs everywhere, some with names, some without. I wouldn't say I know where NPCs belong, but I know the game well enough to tell when things are out of place, like Star Sybill hanging out near the moghouse, now I KNOW she wasn't there before (or was she and I'm insane. lol) Also, when I left town, there were dead enemies but no one fighting mobs and they wouldn't respawn. I went into battle a while later and the mob dropped a blue chest, had 4 things in there including a daelous wing, so I took it and left the chest. But then I realized there was an MP potion in there, so I went to click the chest again and I think I clicked on the dead mob right on top of the chest and the game did a very strange freeze. I restarted PoL and went back in, same graphics problems. I did a little more exploring, but it was hurting my eyes too much so I had to stop it.
I went back into the ATI settings and hit the default settings to undo my changes. Went back into FFXI and everything was back to normal. Tried FFXIV out, worked fine with no blue screen of death. So about 2-3 logins later of FFXI, I was starting to play and about 10 minutes (or so) the graphics started flashing when moving, but still looking normal. So I teleported to mea and once the screen loaded, it was back to that insane version I was playing earlier with the graphics messed up and dead mobs that don't respawn. I clicked on something, who knows what and the game did that strange crash again. So I restarted the game and it was working normal.
So my question, did I just completely kill my PC? What do you think I broke, was it the graphics card, motherboard, RAM, processor? I have no idea how to proceed from here. I played FFXIV today for a while with no problems and I logged into FFXI (or at least I think I did) earlier today and it seemed fine but I was only on for a few seconds just to see if it was working okay.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Edit: Oh yeah, forgot to mention this, but FRAPs also stopped being able to take screenshots, all screenshots come out black with nothing on them. Even after I set ATI back to it's default settings, FRAPs still won't work. Haven't tested the FRAPs video feature since I almost never record videos (the videos take up a ton of gigs just for a couple of minutes, not worth it to me.)