Help plz...ati x1900xt texture problem.

[Type_R]

Got a new Sapphire X1900XT installed on my system and in certain games like GTR2 demo and rfactor I get missing/flashing/sheering textures like this:

Me on my own:

I had noticed the same with my X1800XT previously. Just uninstalled CCC/WDM drivers, run drivercleaner Pro and then reinstalled 6.9s. No change.

My system:
AMD X2 4800+ (stock)
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (fan replaced with heatsink)
Crucial Ballistix PC4000 2x512mb (auto mem settings)
2xraptors in raid 0

This problem only seems to happen when there is other cars/planes etc to draw, if I do a time trial then the textures are fine.

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[Type_R]

One interesting observation is, if I have these textures flickering about and I alt+tab to wondows then back into the game, everything is normal again and no problems for the rest of the gaming session.

Could it be a windows setting causing this? Also tested every single catalyst setting to see if it was a specific thing causing the textures to become corrupted but to no avail.

Any ideas anyone?

 

[Firegod]

Hmm well if it was the card it would do it all the time, I would have thought like. Re-install of Windows maybes as a last test???

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Have you tried any other drivers apart from the 6.9's.

 

[FreeStream]

Hmm, hmm, I've had this before, its when the textures are loaded before the clocks change, this sometimes can corrupt textures, Alt-tabing out resets the textures...

Try using ATT at stock clocks, but without the clock change and see whats happens.

 

[Type_R]

Thanks for the advice guys. Seems it had nothing to do with Ati at all! It was Asus AI *** (or whatever they call their auto overclocking utility) messing with my memory/fsb clocks. Hadn't realised it was on in the bios. anyway, turned it off and all is pristine again!

 

[man_from_uncle]

I always like stories that have a happy ending.

 

[FreeStream]

Thanks for the advice guys. Seems it had nothing to do with Ati at all! It was Asus AI *** (or whatever they call their auto overclocking utility) messing with my memory/fsb clocks. Hadn't realised it was on in the bios. anyway, turned it off and all is pristine again!

Oh and that