Artifact problem

marley_666 · Dec 31, 2002, 04:45 PM

Im having a problem with the radeon 9700 Pro. After playing a game for a while color artifacts appear. Any help with this would be appriciated

Necrosis · Dec 31, 2002, 04:46 PM

Please list your system specs. and if you are over clocking.

marley_666 · Dec 31, 2002, 04:50 PM

The ATI card is running at all the default setting and it is not overclocked

Info

os: Windows Xp Professional with SP1
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-8IHXP
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
Video card: Radeon 9700 Pro
Ram: 1GB 1066MHz Rambus (kingston)
Sound card: Creative Audigy 2
PSU: 475 Watts (Turbo Cool)

there is also a pci fan 2 slots under the video card, the slot between the video card and fan is empty

Necrosis · Dec 31, 2002, 05:36 PM

Hmm.. I wonder if your Radeon isn't underpowered...how do you have it connected and what is your bios settings for your card. I would advise you to set you bios to give the Radeon some more voltage around 1.6 VDC would be good.

P.S. when you see these artifacts have you tried exiting the game and and going back?

marley_666 · Dec 31, 2002, 06:06 PM

Hi,
Thank you for your reply, I tried setting the voltage in the BIOS to 1.6v, it didnt make to much of a diffrance the artifacts still appear. If I exit and rerun the game the artifacts disappear but they reapear after a while. Right now its set to 1.5v. I also have the AGP apature setting set to 128MB. I tired 64MB, didnt do anything.

I have the video card connected on its own cable comming from the PSU, I tried using other connecters from the PSU to see if it would make any diffrance which it did not.

there is no fast write setting a lot of poeple talk about in my BIOS, i jsut see that setting in SMARTGART in the ATi control panel. In that tab evething is left at default which is 4X AGP and fast write is on.

I also have a pci fan 2 slots under the video card to blow out the warm air comming from the card. the slot in between is empty

Necrosis · Jan 1, 2003, 06:30 AM

Hmm...

Okay try disabling fast writes in the smart gart tab. Also since you have so much ram after trying the fast writes trick change your agp aperture size to 256.

~~craig588~~ · Jan 1, 2003, 01:44 PM

I get the EXACT same problem when I have my radeon running its ram anything faster than 360MHz, you might want to try underclocking your ram to see if you might have faulty memory that cant run at its spec.

marley_666 · Jan 1, 2003, 03:55 PM

When you do get the artifacts, do you get them in all your games or just a few of them?

~~craig588~~ · Jan 3, 2003, 08:50 PM

Acctually only 3dmark2k1 becuase I was using that for stability testing. I never tested anything else.

jkilla74 · Jan 4, 2003, 07:53 PM

i am getting the same thing in unreal2k3 only in singleplayer though, and I've been told that its an UT2K3 problem in other forums, what drivers are you using?

marley_666 · Jan 5, 2003, 01:12 PM

Right now im using cat 2.5, I really do not think it is a game problem becuse my friend had the same card and drives as I do and he is not expericancing any problems with it

~~craig588~~ · Jan 5, 2003, 01:26 PM

You really should try underclocking your ram, mabey bringing it down to the speed a radeon 9700 non-pro would run at, you might have a remarked board. I think the 9700 non pro has 275MHz ram.

jkilla74 · Jan 11, 2003, 06:24 PM

guys, did we ever find a solution to this, its happening to me too. Only when i Play, Gta3,Mafia, and UT2k3..... Everything else is fine...

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