Wierd Artifacts

swp kigy · Mar 30, 2005, 05:24 PM

I have an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI and whenever I play CS: Source or Sims 2, I get these wierd lines and stuff heres what I mean.

I try to keep the card as cool as possible by leaving the case cover off if I have to leave it on overnight, because I only have stock cooling. I had ATI Catalyst drivers but uninstalled them to try the Omega Drivers, nothing changed. I ran 3dMark03 and got a 1118

and it still had the same lines and checkers that Counter-Strike: Source had. Any suggestions? I know that sending it back in would be a huge hassle and I would like to avoid it if possible.

My specs:

Dell 2400 Dimenion
Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
1 Gig RAM
Windows XP SP2
ATI Radeon 9250

Thanks in advance.

redsolar · Mar 30, 2005, 06:45 PM

Looks like one of 2 things: heat or defective card. Try underclocking the card, and see if the artefacts go away.

@Husky · Mar 30, 2005, 07:45 PM

I think she looks better like this

I don't know if it will help, but try reducing hardware acceleration. Are Fast Writes off? I never encountered this type of problem so I don't know what could cause that.... maybe its just a deffective card as RedSolar already mentioned...
How much aperture size do you have? What is your AGP speed? What is the setting of Cat A.I.?

swp kigy · Mar 30, 2005, 08:00 PM

The wierd thing is it comes and goes. I don't know how much of this is relevant but I'm by no means an expert at this.

In display properties it has:

Plug and Play Radeon 9200 Pro
Default Monitor Radeon 9200 Pro

Specs:

Omega Drivers 2.6.05a
Core Clock: 239 Mhz
Memory Clock: 200 Mhz
Texture Filtering: Optimal
Pixel Processing / Antialiasing: None
Post Processing: False
Vertex Shaders: Optimal

Even though it's a PCI card is AGP relevant? For my 9250 would I need a new cooling system? I'm really sorry but once again I'm clueless on this stuff. Thanks.

The rest of the info I'm not sure how to view, I checked the full system info on the 3dMark website but it said it was down and to try back later. Oh, and I found out my power supply is pretty weak (250watts) and I have all 6 USB slots filled.

Sargentwhitey · Mar 30, 2005, 09:56 PM

Hmmmm.. I remember a friend having a similar trouble in UT2004 with the same card... he fixed it by lowering the detail :/

swp kigy · Mar 30, 2005, 10:33 PM

Tried it, didn't work.

redsolar · Mar 31, 2005, 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swp kigy

Tried it, didn't work.

Try lowest resolution (640x480) with lowest detail, and lowest shaders ("Reflect None")

swp kigy · Apr 2, 2005, 09:27 PM

Yeah it works, it just looks terrible. I got a new fan today that I'm gonna put in, just to make sure. I put it on 1024x740 (i think) and just lowered all the textures and it went away. It makes Source look very cartoony but I can expect much out of a 9250. Thanks

wiskerbizkit · Apr 7, 2005, 12:15 PM

does your 9200 have fan cooling or passive?

The_Neon_Cowboy · Apr 7, 2005, 08:22 PM

See if the new 5.4's help you any

quakerjtf · Apr 9, 2005, 05:48 PM

you should really just trash that piece of shit and grab a 9550.