Hi Guys,
I was wondering if any of you had this problem. I see 2 problems with my RADEON 8500 OEM card (bought from newegg.com). First, after playing DAoC, when I right-click on the desktop, then pick preferences, then settings tab, the pictures of 2 monitors there look corrupted. This particular corruption happens *only* *after* I start DAoC at least once, and quit back to the desktop. If I just boot up, and check the same screen, both monitors there look perfect.
Second, when I enable SMOOTHVISION in D3D at "Quality 2x" level, when I enter the character selection screen in DAoC (the one where you can set your game, keyboard and video options), I notice *major* corruption in the form of half of the screen slowly sliding to the left, leaving a bunch of smudged streaks behind. It's as if it was melting off to the left. Only half the screen though. That's really weird.
I set my AGP aperture size to 256M. AGP port is set for 4x. I've tried this with AGP aperture 128M. I've tried setting AGP port to 2x. The very same symptoms persist across all such settings. My mobo BIOS doesn't support setting AGP fast-writes, so I *imagine* they are disabled by default.
I would like to hear your thoughts, speculations, accounts of similar experiences (or lack thereof).
My setup:
Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33Mhz)
ECS K7S5A mobo (SiS 735 chipset), AMI BIOS, bought this week, so it's XP-optimized
256M + 128M of PC133 SDRAM
30Gig Maxtor HD (6 months old or so, ATA-66)
Floppy
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
Plextor 16x10x40 CD-RW (new)
3COM Ethernet Card (3c905xxx)
SB Live! Value
USB extension board
300W generic Athlon compatible power supply
generic case
Windows 98SE, DX8.1, RADEON driver v. 4.13.7206, latest ECS mobo AGP driver
By the way, the system in general runs flawlessly. So far, not a single crash! DAoC also runs flawlessly and butter-smooth. Smoothvision works perfectly in the game itself. This corruption problem only affects DAoC character selection/options screen and the video settings screen mentioned above. Everything else appears to work very well. BTW, DAoC means "Dark Ages of Camelot" and it's an online multiplayer game with 3-D graphics, just in case anyone doesn't know.
I was wondering if any of you had this problem. I see 2 problems with my RADEON 8500 OEM card (bought from newegg.com). First, after playing DAoC, when I right-click on the desktop, then pick preferences, then settings tab, the pictures of 2 monitors there look corrupted. This particular corruption happens *only* *after* I start DAoC at least once, and quit back to the desktop. If I just boot up, and check the same screen, both monitors there look perfect.
Second, when I enable SMOOTHVISION in D3D at "Quality 2x" level, when I enter the character selection screen in DAoC (the one where you can set your game, keyboard and video options), I notice *major* corruption in the form of half of the screen slowly sliding to the left, leaving a bunch of smudged streaks behind. It's as if it was melting off to the left. Only half the screen though. That's really weird.
I set my AGP aperture size to 256M. AGP port is set for 4x. I've tried this with AGP aperture 128M. I've tried setting AGP port to 2x. The very same symptoms persist across all such settings. My mobo BIOS doesn't support setting AGP fast-writes, so I *imagine* they are disabled by default.
I would like to hear your thoughts, speculations, accounts of similar experiences (or lack thereof).
My setup:
Athlon XP 1500+ (1.33Mhz)
ECS K7S5A mobo (SiS 735 chipset), AMI BIOS, bought this week, so it's XP-optimized
256M + 128M of PC133 SDRAM
30Gig Maxtor HD (6 months old or so, ATA-66)
Floppy
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
Plextor 16x10x40 CD-RW (new)
3COM Ethernet Card (3c905xxx)
SB Live! Value
USB extension board
300W generic Athlon compatible power supply
generic case
Windows 98SE, DX8.1, RADEON driver v. 4.13.7206, latest ECS mobo AGP driver
By the way, the system in general runs flawlessly. So far, not a single crash! DAoC also runs flawlessly and butter-smooth. Smoothvision works perfectly in the game itself. This corruption problem only affects DAoC character selection/options screen and the video settings screen mentioned above. Everything else appears to work very well. BTW, DAoC means "Dark Ages of Camelot" and it's an online multiplayer game with 3-D graphics, just in case anyone doesn't know.
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