BF3 release! Video card still in RMA hell!

Well, BF3 has finally been released. I would have picked it up at midnight... but I had to work. I would make it a priority to pick up tomorrow, but my video card is in RMA limbo right now. =(

I sincerely hope that BF3 lives up to its expectations. I hope that the launch goes well and I hope that people enjoy the game. I hope that the servers are populate. These are all merely hopes, though. I hope that BF3 is more than they showed off in the beta and especially more than they showed off in the alpha. I hope that Battlelog isn't a huge fail. I just hope the game is gooooooood. That's all I can really hope for, right?

As far as my video card, I just hope it comes back. God damn, there is so much hope around here. If I added a little rainbow and puppytears I could be the president. Anyways.... I hope it works. I started to get artifacts on it back during the summer. Since I played BFBC2 pretty heavily over the summer I assumed it was an engine problem. It only really popped up in BFBC2 and it wasn't there all the time. I confirmed that it wasn't a heat or power issue by changing cases, adding a bunch of fans (with controller), getting a new power supply, and observing it getting worse. The artifacts and whatnot only seemed to appear in DX10 and 11. Anything in Direct X 9 worked fine. My mind... it is blown. World of Warcraft looked great. Even Black Ops worked well. Anything heavy Direct X 11 was shit, though. It was pretty weird.

I started the RMA process almost a month ago. I had to submit info, wait and get address and RMA number. I finally packed it up and shipped it off at the beginning of last week. I assume at least 2 weeks to get it back, probably closer to a month. At least I'm a week down. =X In the meantime I am using a 5770 that likes to freak out and have the drivers reset while scrolling through webpages. Win!