I used to play live servers and I never had anything like this before. I don't know what is going on and I really can't explain it so I took couple of screen shots to show what I am talking about. It is kind of light graphic texture fragments I don't know if it corruption in the files or something else. I have updated the game on both euro and us server and it still does it I have updated my video drivers and still doing it. It mainly does it on my Nightshade and Animist. It doesn't seem to do it while I play any of my other toons. Thank you very much for your help and any advice I can get this is a very annoying problem.
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Edit: I forgot to list specs sorry
X800 Radeon
3.06Ghz P4
1.1Gb ram
XP SP3 On 1Mb DSL

That used to happen fairly often in the old days on DAoC. You had todo /vidreset to give it a kick. It was solved though as a general problem so if it's happening for you now it could mean you have a problem with your graphics card.

update:

DirectX
Drivers

should fix it

make sure if you have a multicore processor or more than 1 processor you set affinity so that only 1 processor is running game.dll


that gave me crazy (having all 3 of my cores running the game) graphics bugs like the ones you have and caused game crashes until I changed the affinity.

Thanks once again for all the help as for the last suggestion it isn't a dual core or multiprocessor unit it only has one. I did the direct X upgrades and checked all my drivers and that seem to help some. I swiched from DR to Cata client and now it seems not to do it as bad as is used to still does it but least I can still see what I am doing. I guess I will just have to deal with it. Once again thanks for all the help and hope maybe it will just fix it's self.

my nvida graphic cards have done this before with my cards it was bad cooling of the gpu one time the fan was stopped and well the game stopped a cheap after market gpu fan fixed it. real easy and cheap fix.

Your GPU is about to die, most likely the RAM. The DAoC Engine is very harsh with hardware, especially GPUs are heating up like nothing else in DAoC, while they keep cool in even newer and more graphical intense games. So well, sooner or later, it's toast. =)

well that's not good. I got this card as an upgrade to run Warhammer Online because the old one didn't have Pixel Shader 2.0 So I always have to the old one I used to use for daoc If I need to I will try a new fan and see if that help but I sure hope this new card doesn't go kaput.

I cleaned the card last night and so far after few hours of playing I haven't had to problem so you called it perfect it seems. I am hoping this fixes it for good and I will make sure to clean the card and its fan with my regular maintenance intervals thanks again.

Alt+tab should clean up your screen aswell. Just a temporary solution ofc

Thank for that if it happens again i will try but for the last day and a half it hasn't happened that thing about video gpu must have been it. Thanks once again for all the help nice community there is here.