Garbled Glitched and corrupted visual data.

[Lucern]

Hello everyone a few days ago I started experiencing some nasty graphical glitches in Windows 7. At first it was just while running a Gameboy Advance emulator (Visualboyadvance) but then it spread over to Project 64 (a Nintendo 64 emulator) after making it fullscreen. Now even when there are no programs running it does nasty glitches. I've tried reinstaling Parallel's tools, and working with various fixes to no avail. I even scanned for viruses none detected.

I'm a digital artist who uses both Windows and Mac paint programs together, and this problem has really slowed down my progress. Here's what happens...

My specs are
Snow Leopard 10.6.8
Parallels 6
Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit
I'm not sure my graphics card or other hardware based specifics but I can certainly look them up if there isn't a simple solution...

 

[strells]

Is this only happening in the VM? If so, you might try reinstalling Windows. If you see it outside of the VM, it could be an issue with your GPU, which, if bad, would require a logic board replacement.

Steve

 

[Lucern]

"Is this only happening in the VM? If so, you might try reinstalling Windows. If you see it outside of the VM, it could be an issue with your GPU, which, if bad, would require a logic board replacement."

Yes only in the VM, my regular OSX is working as always. I was hoping I wouldn't have to reinstal Windows, but if I must I must I suppose. I'll try it out soon and see if the problem persists, I just hope I wont have to reset to defaults and have to reinstal my painting programs again.

 

[Lucern]

Okay, that did it, though I lost some of my windows programs, luckily it was all freeware so it wasn't a huge loss. Thanks again for your help!