Graphics Card Issue [Yellow Tint]

**Gamerkd16** · August 19th, 2009 02:40 PM

This randomly happened some months ago. My graphics card is fine when I'm using the desktop or the browser. It's only when I load games does this weird yellow tint appear. Halo, Sims, Need for Speed. It does it for all of them. I don't know what's going on. Here's my specs:

Windows XP SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Sapphire RADEON X1600 Pro

I'm hoping you know what's wrong, or can at least suggest something. Here's some screencaps. It was a Halo UI I was working on a year ago so I took pictures of it:

July 2008:

August 2009:

July 2008:

August 2009:

And here's my desktop. See, no color problems:

So, can anyone help? +rep to whoever can.

**Pyong Kawaguchi** · August 19th, 2009 02:52 PM

You might want to check to see if your video card is overheating at all, and how old is the card?
I would've said that it could be your wire, but thats not true because it shows up with messed colors in a screenshot.

**Syuusuke** · August 19th, 2009 08:04 PM

Let it happen again and when it does, alt-tab to your desktop and see if it's still there...

**Roostervier** · August 19th, 2009 08:10 PM

did you install any drivers for your monitor since then? one time i installed monitor drivers for some reason and in photoshop my greys were brown. i uninstalled them and it went back to normal.

**Limited** · August 19th, 2009 08:32 PM

Are your drivers up to date? Check the graphics card connections within the computer, make sure nothing is loose or not in correctly.

Also, thats a sexi UI and what widgets are you using for XP? (As in what program obviously)

**FRain** · August 19th, 2009 08:41 PM

royale noir theme supremacy

also, this happened to my bro's card 9800 All In Wonder (back when it was the best card) (except with pink) when it fried itself

**Gamerkd16** · August 19th, 2009 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by Pyong Kawaguchi

You might want to check to see if your video card is overheating at all, and how old is the card?
I would've said that it could be your wire, but thats not true because it shows up with messed colors in a screenshot.

It says the temperature of the card is 65 C. Not sure if that's overheating but compared to my average HD temperature (70 C) it doesn't seem that bad.

Originally Posted by Syuusuke

Let it happen again and when it does, alt-tab to your desktop and see if it's still there...

There is no yellow tint on the desktop when I minimize. I've been using windowed mode and haven't noticed anything.

Originally Posted by flyinrooster

did you install any drivers for your monitor since then? one time i installed monitor drivers for some reason and in photoshop my greys were brown. i uninstalled them and it went back to normal.

I've had this problem for a while now. Probably since the beginning of 2009. I just gave up on PC games for a while so I have no idea if I installed anything new before the problem actually began.

Originally Posted by Limited

Are your drivers up to date? Check the graphics card connections within the computer, make sure nothing is loose or not in correctly.

Well I checked and there was a new update of the driver. It wasn't there a few months ago the first time I checked. Anyway, now my driver said it was updated from 2007 to 02/2009. Problem still exists.

Originally Posted by Limited

Also, thats a sexi UI and what widgets are you using for XP? (As in what program obviously)

Thanks. Yeah, the UI is pretty nice. I was working on it last year but then something became corrupted and I gave up. It's not finished, but you can see the progress/rest of the previews here.

The widgets you see is Rainlendar. My brother also has something called Rainmeter which is like Rainlendar but has clocks, weather, news, and music player widgets.

Originally Posted by FRain

royale noir theme supremacy

also, this happened to my bro's card 9800 All In Wonder (back when it was the best card) (except with pink) when it fried itself

Was it with the computer the entire time, or just with games like me?

**FRain** · August 19th, 2009 11:15 PM

At first it was just with games, and later plagued the whole comp. Eventually the comp stopped working and had to get a new video card.

**Warsaw** · August 20th, 2009 02:26 AM

Looks more like a monitor issue than a graphics card issue to me...looks like one of the colours isn't displaying properly anymore. Go into drivers and tweak it, or on the monitor directly.

**jcap** · August 20th, 2009 09:01 AM

It's not the monitor ffs. It doesn't do any rendering, jeez. -___________________-

I don't even know if that could be a hardware issue, since it would just display that way on the screen, not in a picture.

It's most likely something to do with the driver COLOR CORRECTION settings. Open up the ATI Catalyst Control Center and just look for some area with color profiles and stuff in it. That's what's going crazy.