Bad X1900XTX?

Buddahpest · May 22, 2006, 09:08 PM

Today I decided to fire up FarCry. I haven't played it in about a week. Upon starting the game, I have corruption all over the place. Weird lines, tearing and smearing. Fearing that the card just took a dump, I started some other games. They all appear to be fine.

The card is one week old, so I can RMA it. The only thing that I can figure is that the way I had FarCry set, I was using SM 3.0. The other games that I tried didn't use that. Would that make a difference?

Or could it possibly be that the game just got corrupted?

AlexM105 · May 22, 2006, 09:27 PM

The first thing I would have tried (before even asking for help) would be to re-install the game and run it normally. Try that. Hope all goes well.

CJLMTLCA · May 22, 2006, 09:33 PM

Exactly. If you upgraded your graphics card since installing FC, then re-install. I believe the game renders some things according to your GPU and now that you changed it the data files and not in sync with the new card.
Re-install, apply the patches and run again.

Buddahpest · May 22, 2006, 10:13 PM

I forgot to mention, I did uninstall the game. If I run the game unpatched, it's fine. When I upgrade to the latest patch and enable SM 3.0, then I get the corruption.

When I last ran the game, I already had the X1900 installed, the 1.33 patch was loaded, and I already had SM 3.0 enabled. Everything was fine.

Now, it's garbage.

AlexM105 · May 23, 2006, 12:11 AM

Use 0xAA when using HDR and SM 3.0. CryTek hasn't released their next patch yet that will allow HDR+AA on ATi's latest cards.

(You can try this, but it makes the game a little buggy, but the graphics work great:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1293 )

Buddahpest · May 24, 2006, 08:17 AM

I after uninstalling the Cat 6.4's and reinstalling them, I decided to try a different driver altogether. I went back to the 6.2's. All is now well.

I have never seen that kind of corruption before on any of my systems. From the pictures that I have seen posted by people that have had bad cards, I thought for sure that I was now an unlucky member of the group.

Fortunately for me, it appears only to be a nasty driver bug with FarCry and my system.