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4870 and tearing

SoGi

SoGi

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Ok so this has been happening since I got the card and is now starting to really annoy me. The issue is that I have tearing when having 1 window over another and then move one of them there will be tearing behind it. To see what I mean have a look at screenshot below as im not too good at explaining it.



Drivers have been installed and unistalled too many times so I doubt this is the probelm.

Sorry its a thumbnail.

Motherboard: Asus P5E x38
CPU: E8400 (stock)
RAM: 4GB
Graphics card: 4870 1GB Powercooler

Thnx in advance.
 
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I had sometimes on my Old Pc the same, but it was CPU (when more than 2-4 programs where running), which was holding back PC, but yours E8400 shouldn't as it's good!
 
Its to do with the software afaia. THere isnt anything to fix it.
Try doing it with a non-resource hogging piece of software like mpc or winamp.
 
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You say it's only started since you got the card, did it happen before and what did you have?

It could just be a minor driver bug.
 
Oobie- said:
Its to do with the software afaia. THere isnt anything to fix it.
Try doing it with a non-resource hogging piece of software like mpc or winamp.
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This doesn't seem to be the case just done the same with winamp moving it over these forums and same result as when I done it with MSN.

mmj_uk said:
You say it's only started since you got the card, did it happen before and what did you have?

It could just be a minor driver bug.
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Before this I was running a P5B deluxe with 8800 GTS 640MB, 2GB RAM DDR2 and E6600. The GTS has been used on this motherboard aswell and it was fine then only started since I put the 4870 in.
 
Looks like a firefox problem to me - firefox freezing up and hence you getting the weird non-updated windows.

Does it ever happen if you're not browsing the web at the same time?
 
Aekeron said:
Looks like a firefox problem to me - firefox freezing up and hence you getting the weird non-updated windows.

Does it ever happen if you're not browsing the web at the same time?
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Yes it still happens when I don't have FF open but its no where near as bad. Just tested with IE open it does exatcly the same as what FF does.
 
You say you had an Nvidia card in before, have you fully cleaned the drivers with DriverCleaner or equivalent? Could be driver conflicts or sometihng interfering.
 
Monkeynut said:
You say you had an Nvidia card in before, have you fully cleaned the drivers with DriverCleaner or equivalent? Could be driver conflicts or sometihng interfering.
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Yea I have cleaned them but when I first done it I had an issue with driver cleaner and it wouldn't get rid of them. Since then I have used driver sweeper and re-installed drivers etc, but still get the tearing :(
 
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