Graphic Cards Help: HD4670 DDR3 suddenly shifting to Software acceleration in HL2 EP2

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ani_meher

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I have a new HD4670 card, which was working perfectly while playing HL2, episode 2. But one day, I noticed the game had reverted to software acceleration. The other games too were showing similar artifacts on screen which show up when using software acceleration. The hardware selection tab in HL2 is grayed out, so no more selectable. Also the system started showing 'Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown' message a lot.

So I formatted and reinstalled everything. For a while, the game worked perfectly, and system booted properly. But while playing HL2 yesterday, suddenly the screen changed in brightness a bit, and I could see that it had reverted back to software acceleration. I tried to restore it back to the day when it was showing proper 3d, but still same problem. What could be wrong? I am using latest drivers of everything, including SP1 of windows 7.
 
Does this happen to other games aswell? Run dxdiag, go to display tab, post the status of DirectDraw and Direct3D accleration. Also, make sure you have latest catalyst drivers installed.
 
Thanks for the replies. In dxdiag display, both the direcdraw and d3d are enabled. I don't know about disabling multi-core rendering and color correction, but wonder how that'd explain the shift from 3d to software acceleration. I guess I will give the card to Raashi peripherals for servicing, and hope for the best!
 
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