Textures Flashing or missing

[RavenPrime]

I have a:
Asus G74S series laptop with a Geforce 560M GTX Video card and Core i7 processor with 12GB of RAM.

For the last month, when I load D3 or WoW, the textures don't seem to load properly, the colors are wrong or missing. The trees and shadows will be multicolored or just white and flash as I move in WoW. In Diablo 3 I see similar problems but not as bad, mainly the texts will be the wrong color.

I find if I restart the game, the problem is usually fixed until I restart the computer so I assume it is some kind of software problem. I have updated the drivers, rolled back the drivers, and nothing seems to work. Should I start thinking it is hardware?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[swifty_morgan]

what about heat ? possible to pull apart and clean out dust ?

 

[RavenPrime]

I've checked that too, it happens even when I first turn on the laptop and the vents are clear. It gets better after I exit and restart the game. Its like the driver doesn't initialize properly or something.

 

[swifty_morgan]

not talking about the vents........ said pull apart/disassemble the laptop and clean it out and clean stuff off. and while it's apart check all connections.

 

[RavenPrime]

Opened it up, dusted inside though it was already pretty clean. No change, I had to actually restart the game twice but after the second restart of the game the textures loaded properly and everything looked great.

I am thinking I will probably have to re-install Windows 7 again as maybe there is some registry glitch or some old residual driver file that is bugged. Doing an uninstall and reinstall of video driver didn't help.

Problem is, I got Office 2010 under military home use program and we've used up all our installs, not sure if it will let me re-install it