!!! Help...My 9800SE mod isnt working right !!!

AAplaya

I just installed my first omega driver for my Radeon 9800SE 128mb an AMD 64 system only to find that(though the drivers worked properly) that my icons, text and games all have strange little grey dots about them[img]images/smilies/insane.gif[/img]. If anyone out there knows whats wrong, please tell me how I can fix it.

skykat

That simply means that your 9800SE isn't capable of running with all 8 pipes unlocked and be stable. After all, a 9800 SE is supposed to be 9800 PRO that wasn't quite up to snuff. If you want to keep your soft-mod and get rid of the artifacts (the dots), you can try UNDERclocking the card using any number of available tweaking utitilities. Even a little bit can help. One other possible solution would be trying to disable AGP Fastwrites or lowering AGP speed to 4x. If that doesn't work, the you'll just have to go back to using 4 pipes on it, as it was originally meant to do.

Just because there's all sorts of reports of successful soft mods doesn't guarantee success.

Good luck

yoster77

Actually.. all hope isn't lost. Many people (including myself) have found that the 4 unlocked pipelines are only damaged in 16-bit. If you run a 32-bit game you may notice it will run flawlessly. On my system for instance, i get checkerboards and such all over windows and 16-bit games.. run 32-bit and it USUALLY fixes it. If it DOESNT, enable AA and AF with 32-bit and it should run flawlessly. If you go into the vid card settings and force it to always run AA and AF windows should work correctly also... tho i cant promise you anything.. yours could very easily be damaged on 32-bit as well.

skykat

Do you mean 16 bit color depth or 16 bit programs? AFAIK, all programs post Windows 95 are 32 bit. I seriously doubt that AAPlaya is running his desktop or his games at 16 bit color depth, since the performance gain that you get from 16 bit color depth became a moot point years ago. I have heard that AA and AF can sometimes fix corruption, however. Unfortunately, this solution is a rather crude way of ignoring the underlying problem without doing anything to actually fix it.

Geminiwave

we arent talking about 16-bit processes. We're talking about 16-bit graphics. big difference.