pauly

Hoping someone else has seen this 'behaviour'...

Noticed last night while playing Test Drive Unlimited for the first
time that after a few minutes of play I get lots of weird artifacts on
screen, looks like graphics tearing, flashes of colour in the middle
of the screen etc.

I initially thought that the game was just poorly coded, but couldn't
find any evidence online that people had suffered similar issues with
TDU.

After finally getting hold of the DIRT demo I found a similar problem
- starting a new game was initially OK but after a short period of
gaming I start to get the same graphical glitches appearing.

I'm guessing this is an overheating problem 'cos the games start OK
but quickly deteriorates, possibly due to the amount of work the CPU/
GPU is doing (and consequently generating heat).

My 360 has a fair bit of space around it to get rid of heat, so there
is nothing I can do short of adding a colling device. Is it on its way
out? Anyone seen similar problems?

Typically it is a little over 1 year old so no official warranty. No
problems before now, so I guess something to do with cooling has
failed. I will contact M$ but wanted to see if this is a common
problem first.

Ta.