I just recently purchased a "new" video card from newegg, it was an RMA, a Sapphire Radeon X800GT 128MB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102572
It usually seems to work fine, but during Battlefield 2 it started giving me some wierd artifacts on the clouds and also another wierd black thing on a different map. This was when I moved it up to 1280x960 and 2x AA. I haven't tried a higher res or AA, but everything works fine at 8x6 and 10x7 w/ no AA. I did get a screenshot of the wierd black thing, but I haven't really been able to reproduce the artifacts on the clouds, though.
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8527/black0qx.jpg
It also started to happen in Call of Duty 2, but only during the loading menus, and, again, only when it's at 1280x960 w/ 2x AA (as well as 1280x720 when I accidentally set it wrong).
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/3254/cod219am.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4386/cod9nx.jpg
It hasn't happened on any other games at the same res, Rome:TW, Civ4, CoD1, AoE3.
I just put the computer together a week ago, and I have been OCing the CPU/FSB, but not the video card really. It happened first when I had the CPU overclocked (not the video card), but then I took it back to stock and it still happened.
Also, the card seems like it's overclocked to start with. I have a program called TRIXX which came with my card, and on the Standard setting the core is clocked at 474 with the memory at 349(698) compared to 392/350(700). I haven't really messed with the settings really, so could this be the problem?
I kinda think it might be some bad RAM or is it a pixel pipe thing? I think I can still RMA it with newegg, should I?
Thanks a lot.
System Specs:
Pentium 4 2.4C northwood @3.2Ghz (267FSB)
2x512MB OCZ Premier pc3200 @ 216Mhz 2.5-3-3-7
Albatron PX915P4 Pro MoBo, socket 478 i915 PCIe
Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro 128MB
Seagate SATA HD
430W Thermaltake PS
Driver info
Driver Packaging Version 8.152-050629m-024086C-ATI
CATALYST? Version 05.7
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6553
2D Driver File Path System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{903B7248-6C28-4729-B85C-B96EA0CB83B1}\0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0327
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.5220
CATALYST? Control Center Version 1.2.2006.286
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102572
It usually seems to work fine, but during Battlefield 2 it started giving me some wierd artifacts on the clouds and also another wierd black thing on a different map. This was when I moved it up to 1280x960 and 2x AA. I haven't tried a higher res or AA, but everything works fine at 8x6 and 10x7 w/ no AA. I did get a screenshot of the wierd black thing, but I haven't really been able to reproduce the artifacts on the clouds, though.
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/8527/black0qx.jpg
It also started to happen in Call of Duty 2, but only during the loading menus, and, again, only when it's at 1280x960 w/ 2x AA (as well as 1280x720 when I accidentally set it wrong).
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/3254/cod219am.jpg
http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/4386/cod9nx.jpg
It hasn't happened on any other games at the same res, Rome:TW, Civ4, CoD1, AoE3.
I just put the computer together a week ago, and I have been OCing the CPU/FSB, but not the video card really. It happened first when I had the CPU overclocked (not the video card), but then I took it back to stock and it still happened.
Also, the card seems like it's overclocked to start with. I have a program called TRIXX which came with my card, and on the Standard setting the core is clocked at 474 with the memory at 349(698) compared to 392/350(700). I haven't really messed with the settings really, so could this be the problem?
I kinda think it might be some bad RAM or is it a pixel pipe thing? I think I can still RMA it with newegg, should I?
Thanks a lot.
System Specs:
Pentium 4 2.4C northwood @3.2Ghz (267FSB)
2x512MB OCZ Premier pc3200 @ 216Mhz 2.5-3-3-7
Albatron PX915P4 Pro MoBo, socket 478 i915 PCIe
Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro 128MB
Seagate SATA HD
430W Thermaltake PS
Driver info
Driver Packaging Version 8.152-050629m-024086C-ATI
CATALYST? Version 05.7
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6553
2D Driver File Path System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{903B7248-6C28-4729-B85C-B96EA0CB83B1}\0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0327
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.5220
CATALYST? Control Center Version 1.2.2006.286
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