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aminought

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Registered: 2017-06-16

Posts: 5

Someting strange within mouse pointer

When my computer does some operations which consume RAM, sometimes my mouse pointer or even text in some applications becomes corrupted. Now I simply copy 23Gb file and during the process I've got this strange thing near of my mouse pointer. It is not visible on screenshot, so I took a photo:
https://my.mixtape.moe/fycbwy.jpg
After some time it disappears itself. Why does it happen and how to remove that thing manually?

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Last edited by Trilby (2017-06-16 16:18:45)

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: Someting strange within mouse pointer

this is often indicative of an overheating or failing video card. have you tried to clean out the fans and/or air ports/heat sinks?
you could also try rebuilding your video drivers

Last edited by HiImTye (2017-06-16 16:04:34)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,308

Re: Someting strange within mouse pointer

Sounds more like an overlap between RAM and VRAM - do you use an IGP or a dedicated GPU ("lspci")?

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