Is my Radeon 8500 defective or do you guys have my same problem? PLEASE ANSWER. its a short question

ThatWasFat

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OK. Let me list whats going on.
In almost all games I play, be they OpenGL or DirectX, everything looks fine except for these little black blotches that pop up everywhere in about a milisecond. It's just little black tears in the graphics, which come and go quickly, in large numbers. It's driving me nuts.

In 3DMark2001, I get those same little black blotches on all my graphics EXCEPT on these tests:

DOT3 Bump Mapping
Vertex Shader
Environment Bump Mapping (wow thats nice)
Nature (!!!!! whoa..)
Point Sprite

everything else gives me those same little black tears and blotches.

what do you guys think? am I defective? I have tried 2k with alternate drivers and XP with alternate drivers

 

Rand

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Oct 11, 1999
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Graphical artifacts?
Are you running on an overclocked AGP bus, or have you overclocked your graphics card?
If so, then you might want to try dropping it back to rated clockspeed and testing it... otherwise it certainly sounds like the card itself has sever problems.
You may also wish to try another driver revision.