The coolest glitch ever

[owned]

So here are the pictures.

I was playing regularly in sumo, and then the glitch started. The writing on the screen pixelated and random colors started flashing on my screen for about one frame every second. Then, as you can see in the pics, the tails changed and my cycle soon followed. I didn't experience any lag, but the flashes got really annoying. The entire time the flashes were increasing in frequency to about every other frame. So I then shut it off.

1. Does anyone have any idea what this is? It started when I was playing but persisted (the flashes) for a few hours after I stopped.

2. As you probably noticed, when they changed, the tails and cycles looked pretty cool. Maybe you could make them look like that in the next update?

Thanks in advance,
-owned

[Z-Man]

1. It's either your GPU driver messing up or your GPU on the verge of melting. so
2. better not

[madmax]

1. It's either your GPU driver messing up or your GPU on the verge of melting.

About a year ago I saw some very similar effects... and my Powerbook's GPU *did* melt.
The effects were permanent after it happened though, look at how the desktop looked like:

[!TX!Ubunturocks]

Do you overclock? I had a similar problem with my graphics card when it overheated. At least when my card cooled of it started to work normal again.

[destiny]

also, just so you know. during that time frame manta was also upgrading all of the wild west servers and changing them to auth. i doubt that is what did it, but i did have some weird things happen on the forum during his upgrading.

[-=VcL.Rajinn]

Poor owned

[owned]

@z-man do you know any ways of how that could happen?

@ubuntu Nope, I don't wanna risk the damage to my comp.

@ Rajinn Don't worry, it stopped a few hours after it started.

@all thanks for the info

[Z-Man]

@z-man do you know any ways of how that could happen?

Well, driver errors just happen. As for the melting, with overclocking ruled out, insufficient ventilation would be the main reason. Maybe you built your rig in the winter and tested it then, and it just doesn't react well to a higher exterior temperature?

[gawdzilla]

Oh this happens to me sometimes too, usually I just have to close down everything I have running on my mac and then it stops. Or I simply restart. It doesn't happen now anymore though but it was always so freaky.