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Glitches are back...

Robert

Robert

Robert

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Well after playing lots last night and having no problem, I go on to a server this morning and straight away the glitches are back. I really can't believe it, I'm so bloody annoyed right now. My rig is as follows;

X800XT@Stock 6.2 cats
3700 754@Stock
Asus K8VSE Deluxe
2gb geil
Audigy 2
XP Home
Service pack 2
All drivers up-to-date

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It's seriously ******* me off right now. Fitting the fan was good idea as temps are a lot lower, but WHY do I still get this with newer drivers? It works fine with 5.9 cat's, but I want the latest ones for newer games.

FFS :mad:
 
Have you tried knocking 10MHz off the memory speed to see if that makes a diference?

BF2 seems very artefacty towards my 7800gt's memory clock but all over games are ok and ATiTool
 
Everything's stock and at a decent temp...should I really have to knock 10mhz off? I know it won't make a difference - but I've never had to do that before.
 
That's a hardware fault mate no doubt about it, drivers can't cause glitches like that so it's safe to say you have a duff card (looks like GPU to me).
 
Yeah but ATi probably did a bit of optimizing in recent drivers, probably the newest drivers use an area of the GPU that the 5.9's didn't touch upon or maybe they're just more efficient (and thus stress it more), those blocks definitely point to GPU rendering errors to me.

You shouldn't have to use 5.9's so I would RMA it.
 
Try backing off the GPU clockspeed 50MHz (underclock it) see if that helps, if it doesn't then do the same with memory, that way you might find out what is at fault here (I think GPU).

Personally, if you still have the invoice for it I would contact the manufacturer of the card and kindly explain to them that a £300(?) card should last a damn sight longer than just over 12mths.
 
that looks like memory trouble to me, ive always though if it was GPU that you got those horrible triangle glitche and not checkering. i have this with a 9700pro, where it would work with old drivers ok but new ones used to screw it up, i sent it back in the end and the replacement was ok iirc
 
fullfat said:
that looks like memory trouble to me, ive always though if it was GPU that you got those horrible triangle glitche and not checkering. i have this with a 9700pro, where it would work with old drivers ok but new ones used to screw it up, i sent it back in the end and the replacement was ok iirc
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no you have them the wrong way around in my experience.
 
If you are getting distortion or artifacts/sparklies

Artifacts look like odd triangles or mishapen/distorted textures
Sparklies are... well sparkly, youll know it when you see it

If you get sparklies (little sparkly dots or squares) Lower your core!

If you get artifacts (dark/distorted triangles) Lower your memory!

From the sticky,

If it works on older drivers but not new ones then its a software problem tbh.
 
UOcUK Poopscoop said:
Anyone noticed the artifacts don't go over the map and bottom ammo displays etc.

I would say that points to a software problem rather than hardware myself as another poster said.
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Was just about to the same myself mate, thats not a hardware glitch, thats a driver problem.

I'd try a fresh install and see if that does the trick? If you don't want to go that far use driver cleaner to wipe your mobo and graphics drivers, then install the fresh ones.
 
Thought I might add my experience with the new Cat 6.2's to this thread. I reinstalled windows the other day on my new RAID. Installed the latest Cat6.2's and proceeded to play DoD:S and CoD2. Both have crashed with a VPU recover. Overdrive is not set and card is at stock with excellent temps. Then I was playing DoD:S just now and suddenly the monitor goes blank and comes back with an error: out of range 263.4Hz x 224Hz with some ridiculus resolution. Mine too is an X800XT. I think ATi may have fudged these drivers and I'm wondering if it the previously fine card, or the drivers.
 
UOcUK Poopscoop said:
Anyone noticed the artifacts don't go over the map and bottom ammo displays etc.

I would say that points to a software problem rather than hardware myself as another poster said.
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Well the graphics card isn't actually rendering the displays is it? They're just stuck there.

I dunno, looks pretty much a hardware fault to me, GPU probably.
 
Tim said:
Well the graphics card isn't actually rendering the displays is it? They're just stuck there.

I dunno, looks pretty much a hardware fault to me, GPU probably.
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The GPU by definition is rendering the whole display.

Only thing I would say to qualify my earlier statement is that the map etc. are in 2d not 3d and may be rendered in a different way by the GPU.

I would certainly do some investigating on the software side before condemning the card just yet though.
 
The thing is I've re-installed countless times and tried a range of drivers from the 5.10 up.

Edit: What about new games? I'm gonna be screwed without the ability to update my drivers. Also - the problem didn't ALWAYS occur. I played fine for an hours the other night - next day BANG back again straight away.
 
Yes.

Surely it if was driver related it wouldn't be so random? As I've said I did a fresh install and even tried the 5.11 drivers (which used to work ok) and they still had the problem.
 
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Did you try lowering clockspeeds?

Lower the GPU by 100Mhz and see if that helps improve things, try the same with memory if it doesn't.
 
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