Graphical Tearing

[Jongo]

Hi recently i have been getting graphical tearing in some of the games ive been playing. Mostly in CSS and other source mods. Below i have included an example of what i mean.

My System spec is

P4 3.01 Ghz W/ HT
Nvidia7900GS
80gb HDD
2.5gig ram

nothing is overclocked nor has been.

my card temps are about 59 idle and 67 under load.

i have the 94.24 drivers installed.

hopefully you guys can help me out

 

[Jokester]

Looks like memory corruption, I would try different drivers just in case though.

Jokester

 

[Jongo]

i had the 158.27 drivers installed before and just installed the 94.24 ones a few hrs ago to see if that made a diffrence but it didnt sry should have said that in my first post.

 

[nintenjo]

user error..

 

[helmutcheese]

Very helpfull post above.

Try newest drivers and if LCD, is your VSync on or off ?

 

[Jongo]

yeah ive tried V-Sync on and that doesnt seem to do anything at all. i will check to see if thers any new drivers also

 

[Jongo]

so am i right in thinking this is an RMA job then?

 

[Jokester]

Try running ATItool and use the scan for artifacts feature. If it doesn't find any then it might not be the card.

Jokester

 

[Jongo]

i did the ati tool and it apparantly found no errors but beeped.. this is what it said.

anyone know what that means?

 

[Jokester]

It's found some errors, that yellow dot just below the middle of the cube.

Jokester

 

[Jongo]

ahh so this is a RMA job then

 

[neil27]

It's found some errors, that yellow dot just below the middle of the cube.

Jokester

hi

just running ati tool myself as i have a few probs....the cube stopped spinning straight away and its constantly beeping but say no errors.

 

[Jongo]

hi

just running ati tool myself as i have a few probs....the cube stopped spinning straight away and its constantly beeping but say no errors.

yeah thats what happens on mine when i run ATI tool

 

[helmutcheese]

The cube does not apin when stressing but the beeps normally mean its found errors, it can have lots of yellow artifacts and not count them as errors, I use prefer to use my eyes.