Q: I have a Sapphire Radeon 9800 non-pro a WinXP system with more than a year now and maybe the last seven months I have noticed some glitches in programs. The one in question Everquest, American McGees Alice and Aquamark3. (There may be others, but these are the only three Ive installed that indicate a problem.
The glitches to come in the form of flashing corrupt textures now appear and of different sizes. I have thought about overheating of the card, but even with a cold start as they run the problems start. Other programs such as Vietnam BF, Doom3, Far Cry and 3DMark03 see no problems all.
The only thing I can think of that seemed to coincide with the glitches, the installation of DX9b. But I am now using DX9c and no difference.
Could these are caused by faulty RAM on the card or a driver problem? I update drivers with each release, but one thing that could relate to is that it always WinXP succeed to his request to install drivers before I get the new drivers installed after I install and reboot.
Just wondering if anyone has similar problems and possible solution to this?
Thanks
Craig
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Re:I've downloaded the driver again and reinstalled but no luck.
However just to give an example of the problem I've grabbed a screen from Aquamark3 that contains a corrupt texture. In the capture the texture below the outlet exhausts is incorrect. However it looks very similar to the texture on the bank in the upper left of the capture (Same texture?). This only flashed on screen for a fraction of a second (I assume its just a single frame that is effected) and the texture was normal again. There are many smaller glitches throughout the demo but this would be the best example.
Example of corruption (http://www.btinternet.com/~c.paterson1/corrupt2.jpg)
Craig
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Re:I'm using Cats 4.8 at the moment. I update them every release but the problem does not seem to have got any better or worse. I'll try re-instaling again as there is no harm in trying
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Re:Try removing your display driver completely, and re-installing. What version of the Catalyst drivers are you using? Perhaps you could update your drivers if you haven't already done so.
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Re:The glitches were not initially there in Everquest and Aquamark3, they just appeared one day after updating Dx9. As for the other the other program it was installed afterwards so I'll have a search for any patches that may fix this. Just hoping its not error in the cards ram as I was thinking of selling it on to a friend in the near future.
Thanks
Craig
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Re:Did these glitches show up when you initially installed these programs? It is odd the glitches show up on these titles and not the others. Usually when a vid card starts to go bad, the glitches appear on everything, so I might rule out the card.
It's unfortunate that you can't roll back to DX9a and see if this fixes the problem. See if the glitchy tiitles have updates for DX9c.
Good luck.
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