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if you guys know anything about this, please notify me RIGHT away!

System specs?

Corsair 750 Watt PSU (power supply unit)
Asus M2V-MX-SE Motherboard
Kingston 4GB DDR2800 Memory Dual Channel
ATI Radeon 4890 Video Card
Western Digital 500GB Hard Drive
Asus DRW-2014S1T SATA DVD burner

did you tried switching to a different video setting?

what do you mean? do you mean by changing the resolution?

3 things come to mind:

1: did you overclock your GPU? If not, did you buy it already overclocked form the factoy?

2: Can you change the renderer? For example, can you switch between OpenGL and DirectX rendering

3: Are you monitorint the temperature to check if that could be the cause?

3.5: I'm sorry if it seems like I'm trolling here; I assure you this is not my intent -- I have heard some negative things about ATI drivers when compared to nVidia. I've heard such down-talking from enough sources to make me wonder. I had an interesting experience, for example, with my old ATI card (Radeon 9800 Sapphire), where the newest driver messed up the UT2004 shadows by making a big black square on the ground. Took them a few weeks to get an updated driver to fix that. Did this happen after you upgraded to a new driver? If you do have an outdated driver, maybe the newest one may ahve fixed that.

no I did Not overclock my Video card. and NO it was NOT overclocked from the factory. I have the latest drivers for my ATI card. I do not know if I can change from OpenGL to DirectX. I will find out soon.

Have you tried installing older drivers to see if that would fix the problem?

Try changing different video settings from the game video options.
Not shure something will change but worth a try.

And one more question, is it a standard map or user made ?

definetly looks a video problem, possibly overheating...

@P_Colossus.. its a standard map. also I have tried changing video settings and that also does NOT help.

Must be overheating.

thats what I am thinking..... I'll see if I can get some information on my temp for my graphics card.......

@Uglypants...my video card fan IS running... its an Arctic Cooler.. I can't get info on my Video card temp.......

it is hot when you touch it.....what is the room temperature.

If you want to check the temperature, try Everest Home Edition. It collects a lot of information about your PC including GPU temperature.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

@Blade_{BZ}... I am not sure what the room temperature is.......

Not room temp, the temp of your PC and GPU and probably CPU.

Use the link Share the pain gave u Roy.

I have used the link .... the CPU idles around 90 - 100 Degrees, HDD idles 80 - 90 Degrees, and SYS temp is about 86 degrees

I hope I don't have to get a new video card because that would SUCK! that's all right I'll go back to NVIDIA eventually anyway!

Okay, that seems a bit high, i know the 8800GTX vid is supposed to run around like 80 degrees, but i doubt the CPU or HDD shoudl be that high... might be wrong.

I have an LCD screen on my case and it display's temperatures for HDD, CPU and SYSTEMS as well......... could it be that it's getting too hot?

A processor can operate properly in an environment 90 - 100+°C. This includes GPU, CPU, etc.

And guys, if it were overheating, graphical anomalies wouldn't show up on screenshots anyway. Screen capture like print screen or Fraps do not operate like a camera, they depend on the drivers and other software to supply info on what to render onto a screenshot. Pretty much the same concept applies to audio capture. So if there are errors in the result, it is most likely the drivers' fault.
A screen dump could potentially display results of overheating though.

I'm going to suggest that you either downgrade or upgrade the video drivers, go to ATi's forum and check out what drivers are getting lots of praise.

I have downloaded the ATI Catalyst 7.1 drivers and no problems. it was the drivers the whole time. lock this thread for right now and I'll PM someone if issues occur.

Glad to hear this ha been fixed up.

I am too.... save me more money by not having to get another one. I will report back on these forums if any issues occur.

I pray none do.

lol... I hope none do either. right now, I have NOT had any issues yet which has been nice!

When computers do work as intended it is very nice. I'm glad we got to the bottom of this.

I am glad too.... I will use the 7.1 catalyst drivers for right now.....