Hello everybody,
I recently upgraded my video card from a Gainward GF4 TI4200 64MB version. This card seemed stable and snappy most of the time and I was pleased with it's performance. I play mostly Links 2003, Madden 2004 PC, Home World 1 and 2 and Chessmaster 9000. All of a sudden I started having problems with the card booting up. To verify the card was bad, I recreated the problem in another desktop and the same thing happenned, no video post or bootup.
So after much research I broke down and got a ATI Radeon 9600XT, primarily because of the slight edge in image quality. I wanted a main stream card that was popular. After installing and booting my system (after uninstalling all nvdia drivers using drivercleaner) I tested my new card by firing up Links 2003. From what I could tell, there are visual artifacts in the startup screen as well as during gameplay. I am extremely upset about this! I have never had a problem using nvidia cards and I remember back in the nvdia glory days that stability was always better than ATI and that's why I was exclusively nvidia for the past couple of years. I never had this problem until I installed this ATI card which doesn't seem to be much of an upgrade in performance or image-wise!
These "artifacts" appear during gameplay and cause the screen to become distorted.
I hope someone can offer some sort of solution to my problem when playing Links 2003. I play this game the most and I hope someone who had a similar problem can help me, Thanks.
I recently upgraded my video card from a Gainward GF4 TI4200 64MB version. This card seemed stable and snappy most of the time and I was pleased with it's performance. I play mostly Links 2003, Madden 2004 PC, Home World 1 and 2 and Chessmaster 9000. All of a sudden I started having problems with the card booting up. To verify the card was bad, I recreated the problem in another desktop and the same thing happenned, no video post or bootup.
So after much research I broke down and got a ATI Radeon 9600XT, primarily because of the slight edge in image quality. I wanted a main stream card that was popular. After installing and booting my system (after uninstalling all nvdia drivers using drivercleaner) I tested my new card by firing up Links 2003. From what I could tell, there are visual artifacts in the startup screen as well as during gameplay. I am extremely upset about this! I have never had a problem using nvidia cards and I remember back in the nvdia glory days that stability was always better than ATI and that's why I was exclusively nvidia for the past couple of years. I never had this problem until I installed this ATI card which doesn't seem to be much of an upgrade in performance or image-wise!
These "artifacts" appear during gameplay and cause the screen to become distorted.
I hope someone can offer some sort of solution to my problem when playing Links 2003. I play this game the most and I hope someone who had a similar problem can help me, Thanks.
