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doom 3 and far cry graphic problem

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onearmedscissor

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on doom 3, far cry, and one of the tests on 3dmark, i have a weird graphic problem where tons of black little squares flicker all over the screen. sometimes there are more and sometimes there are less. i can't figure out how to fix this. i have directx 9b, radeon 9700 pro 128mb, pentium 4 2.4b ghz, and 512mb rdram. if anyone could tell me how to fix this, that would be great. thanks.

and my doom 3 graphic settings are on medium, with all the advanced turned on except vertical sync and anti aliasing is set to 2x. and 1024x768 resolution. and everything was set to default on 3dmark.

edit: also, i reformatted a while ago, but i had the same problem on far cry and 3d mark before i reformatted.
 
Originally posted by: onearmedscissor
on doom 3, far cry, and one of the tests on 3dmark, i have a weird graphic problem where tons of black little squares appear all over the screen. sometimes there are more and sometimes there are less. i can't figure out how to fix this. i have directx 9b, radeon 9700 pro 128mb, pentium 2.4b ghz, and 512mb rdram. if anyone could tell me how to fix this, that would be great. thanks.

and my doom 3 graphic settings are on medium, with all the advanced turned on except vertical sync and anti aliasing is set to 2x. and 1024x768 resolution. and everything was set to default on 3dmark.
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vysnc helps a LOT, for me anyway.
 
Originally posted by: onearmedscissor
what does vsync do anyway? i turned it on and the black squares are still there.
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It limits your frame rate to whatever your monitor's refresh rate is at, to keep from tearing the images during high motion scenes.
 
here are some screenshots:

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/5066/shot00001.png
http://img70.exs.cx/img70/3348/shot00002.png
http://img70.exs.cx/img70/9904/shot00003.png

they don't look as annoying in the screenshots, because in the game i notice it more because they are constantly flickering, and a lot of the flickering ones didn't got caught in the screenshots.

and my computer is not overclocked at all. it's a dell and everything is the same as when i got it, except i added 256mb ram and a sound card.
 
I had the identical problem a while back. After trying various drivers, and reformatting my hardive, I RMA'ed the card back to ATi and the replacement card fixed the problem.
 
If you're not overclocking it could be a defective card. Also you haven't flashed it with any BIOSes have you?
 
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