Finally took the plunge recently to build my own computer. Got everything finally assembled Saturday evening and got Windows 10 installed. Install graphics drivers, install steam & my copy of civ 4, run Civ 4, and boom, everything looks clean and runs great.
So yesterday night, I decide to boot up skyrim. The intro starts, and everything looks pretty damn great, then all of a sudden, and sorry for a poor description of this, but the game character models start going all to hell, and black and white little boxes start fuzzing all over the place on my screen.
I exit the game, and they still end up on my desktop background. concerned, I shut down the computer & restart, but it's still there?!?!.
Google fu claims the following possible culprits:
1) The Graphics card wasn't pushed into its slot securely enough, and once I got a more hardware intensive game running, exposed the issue.
2) The graphics card is busted & needs replacing.
3) Possible motherboard failure.
I'm going to attempt #1 above first, but thought I'd run it by any potential tech experts here. Any help appreciated, thanks.