9700 Pro artifacts - Polygon disco!

[Malachi256]

Just upgraded my puter to a 9700 pro... I've got an Athlon 2400, 1 gig ram, and the Pro card now.

Everything works more or less fine, HOWEVER...

In 3dMark03(and to a very small small extent UT2003, and to a much larger extent Shadowbane...) I get artifacts that are totally unacceptable.

It basically looks like invidivual polygons are "lighting up" randomly... all over the place... so that ultimately it looks like at any one time on the screen half a dozen polygons are lit up, and this is happening very quickly. The overall effect is obviously horrible. It is worst on the Trolls in the 3dmark03 benchmark (you don't see ANY artifacts on the WWII war planes one, you see only a few on the space fight one) - the trolls are a virtual disco themselves, as well as their surroundings. The girl's sword also appears white to me... according to screenies that I've seen this doesn't seem right either.

SO, I have fiddled with all sorts of settings - changed bios settings around, changed in game settings (for Shadowbane at least - went through every one turning it up, down, off, etc), and changed the "acceleration" setting for the card in windows... NOTHING has helped.

This has happened with at least two different sets of drivers...

Does anyone know what's going on??

Do I have a bad card? I have not read anywhere of anyone else having this problem.

Thanks

 

[Glitchny]

might be a bad card, or it might be drivers somewhere conflicting with the card, Make sure the old drivers are deleteed form the registry and then install new ones

 

[chizow]

Do you have DX9 installed? It seems to have fixed the problem in a much lengthier thread where the poster had similar artifacting problems.

Chiz

 

[Malachi256]

Do you have a link for that thread?

Unfortunately, I did install DirectX9.0 and it didn't help =(

 

[Malachi256]

Speaking of cleaning up the registry, does anyone have a program ("tweaker"?) that they'd recommend? Thanks

By the time I've figured this problem out (starting to think it'll involve an RMA) I think my registry will be pretty messy...

 

[WT]

I had the same odd block textures appearance with my GF 4 4200. The card exhibited these horrible yellow blocks (about 3'x3' in game scale) playing UT2K3 and even worse in UT. I played Dungeon Siege and it was fine altho for obvious reasons the card itself was NOT fine. I RMA'd the card and am still waiting on it .. hopefully to arrive early next week. Good luck !

 

[sambao21]

Your problem sounds like what's been happening to people that try the softmod on 9500 non pros to get it to 9700 pro levels. Where did you buy this card from? You should try and use mbm 5 and see stats like the core speed and mem speed on your card. What's memory rating?