new vid card troubles

[jbass]

Put together my new system AMD 64 3500+, 1gig pc3200, ATI 9800 Pro. I played Doom for a few days and tweaked settings till it ran smoothly. Then one day as I was playing, the textures tore, or didnt seem to wrap objects correctly. I had alot of triangle shapes on the screen, which made the game virtually unplayable. Gave up. Played another day and no texture tearing, but game runs a bit choppy.

Loaded up Far Cry, but it would not load on Very High settings, so bumped it down to High Settings. Started playing the game and ran fine, until the action got going. Same thing happened. Textures tore, and I got these strange triangles that pointed wherever I looked. Is my video card shot? Or is somthing else contributing to this?

 

[jrphoenix]

I'm not an expert... are you overclocking the card? It could be heat or simply Doom 3 killing your card (I have heard about this on the video forum). You may want to post your question over there, they have some knowledgeable people...

Good luck!

 

[jbass]

no overclocking here

 

[deathwalker]

I suggest you get a video card tweeking tool like Riva Tuner. Detune your memory to a lower setting..if that solves the problem then you have some marginal performance memory on the graphics card. I had this problem with a 9700Pro(not overclocked)...had ripping and tearing in some games. When i tweeked the memory timings down just a tad all the problems went away. Don't think for a minute that marginal performing memory can't slip the the Qaulity Control processess at these card manufactures.