Problems with the new version of Omega drivers. new artifacts

Geminiwave · Jul 8, 2004, 08:08 PM

Okay so everything was going great on my computer. I have a Radeon 9800SE(dont laugh) that is softmodded and BIOS modded and HSF modded. yeah anyway

So everything is running great. fast speeds etc etc. I was happy. then after I installed the latest driver update, I was playing Halo and noticed these tiny almost unnoticable checkerboards when you kill an eliete and melee it a few times smearing its blood around. The blood mixed with the ground made sort of a checkerboard effect. I am almost positive that this didnt happen before(though I cannot garuntee this) I installed the new drivers. Is there something I can do to fix this or do I have to delete the new drivers and go back to old ones. I dont wanna do that because I noticed a VERY nice speed increase on 3dMarks03 and FarCry after getting the new drivers.

the checkerboard pattern has ONLY happened on Halo. I havent seen it anywhere else.

Furious1 · Jul 8, 2004, 08:19 PM

ppl were getting this in CS and that too...check around I am sure there is a fix for it.

Or i guess you have to abandon Omegas AWESOME drivers....

Geminiwave · Jul 8, 2004, 08:27 PM

Um but if i take them off then I think my pipelines will go back to crapyness. I Cant do that.

mkk · Jul 8, 2004, 09:52 PM

Are you certain that you ran the game with AntiAliasing before? Turn off AntiAliasing if it shows up so much as to be a bother, or otherwise live with it.

Chaos · Jul 8, 2004, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by Furious1
ppl were getting this in CS and that too...check around I am sure there is a fix for it.

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Geminiwave · Jul 8, 2004, 10:48 PM

you mind PMing him dude
thats kind of off topic

Now as far as Anti-Aliasing...

I have always had Ansiotropic on whenever I can. And yeah Antialiasing was on before. Nothing changed, I just updated the drivers

MindlessOath · Jul 9, 2004, 01:17 AM

mabe your pipelines are going bad because u softmodded it? i dunno, but artifacts are often caused by softmodding and biosmodding etc... try to lower your overclock and unsoftmod it. see if that helps.

Geminiwave · Jul 9, 2004, 01:54 AM

oh now this is interesting

I didnt have it overclocked at all

and the checkerboarding is so unnoticeable it almost looks like it was intentional blending...only under close examination and playing the game on my brothers laptop(which has a Geforce on it) did i realize that it really was a bug.

The interesting part:

it starts to clear up the more i overclock(to a point obviously)

i OC it up 30 mhz and it fades away quite a bit.

I need to test this more

In any case, this did not happen with the old drivers and it was soft modded. When I say old drivers I mean a previous version of Omega Drivers

Oh yeah when I run it with PixelShader 1.4, it starts to clear up too.