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9800pro owners playing Doom3

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PCFetish

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before doom, i ran 420 core fine, in any games
but in doom3, with 420, sparkles like crazy
I'm doing 400 with no problem
anyone doing higher?
bwt, silencer ver3 cooler
 
420/371 vga silencer rev2 is my normal oc. I usually run doom3 without a oc unless I have the air conditioner on or I artifact at anything over stock.
 
Originally posted by: PCFetish
before doom, i ran 420 core fine, in any games
but in doom3, with 420, sparkles like crazy
I'm doing 400 with no problem
anyone doing higher?
bwt, silencer ver3 cooler
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Using the Omega 4.7 drivers, I was getting sparkles all over the place with my 9800NP running at 405C/325M. Upgrading to the new Catalyst 4.9 Beta drivers fixed that problem.

FYI, if you don't want to mess with removing your existing drivers, you can simply take the ATIOGL.DLL from the new 4.9 package and save it to your \Doom3 root directory. The program will use this OpenGL driver instead of the one in the Windows directory.
 
Well, I don't have a 9800pro, but my pathetic 9700pro does only 335/325 on Doom3 🙁
 
In UT2004, I use 435/366 without any artifacts. But in doom3, I have to tune down to 420/360 to make it clean. I have 9800pro with arctic cooler version 2. Running 4.9beta driver.
 
Hey Blu..

I was curious about the artifacts that you are talking about. I just recently started noticing red sparkles and artifacts all over the place when playing D3. My card is not overclocked and is a 9800pro 128Mb using catalyst vers. 4.6. Are the artifacts a heat related issue or do you think the newer catalyst drives would make a difference? Based on what you said about using the 4.9 betas it would seem so, but I am just a little uneasy about using the betas unless they really help.

Thanks alot for any input!
 
Originally posted by: welst10
In UT2004, I use 435/366 without any artifacts. But in doom3, I have to tune down to 420/360 to make it clean. I have 9800pro with arctic cooler version 2. Running 4.9beta driver.
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Originally posted by: Computeruser99er
Hey Blu..

I was curious about the artifacts that you are talking about. I just recently started noticing red sparkles and artifacts all over the place when playing D3. My card is not overclocked and is a 9800pro 128Mb using catalyst vers. 4.6. Are the artifacts a heat related issue or do you think the newer catalyst drives would make a difference? Based on what you said about using the 4.9 betas it would seem so, but I am just a little uneasy about using the betas unless they really help.

Thanks alot for any input!
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Originally posted by: Computeruser99er
Hey Blu..

I was curious about the artifacts that you are talking about. I just recently started noticing red sparkles and artifacts all over the place when playing D3. My card is not overclocked and is a 9800pro 128Mb using catalyst vers. 4.6. Are the artifacts a heat related issue or do you think the newer catalyst drives would make a difference? Based on what you said about using the 4.9 betas it would seem so, but I am just a little uneasy about using the betas unless they really help.

Thanks alot for any input!
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While D3 stresses today's video card probably more than any other game in history, I really don't think it's a heat issue, especially since you're running at stock speeds.

You don't have to uninstall your existing 4.6 drivers. Run the setup program for the 4.9 Beta drivers, and extract the driver files to the temporary directory, and the abort the installation (don't let it go thru the full installation process).

Go to the temporary directory (usually C:\ATI\...) and find the ATIOGL.DLL file. Copy this file to your \Doom3\ root directory (where Doom3.exe is located) and see if that makes a difference. Basically, by putting this file in the D3 directory, you are just using the updated ATI OpenGL library that ATI modified recently for D3 only. Every other game will still continue to use your existing 4.6 drivers.

If there's a problem with the new OpenGL driver, just delete the ATIOGL.DLL file from your Doom3 directory.
 
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