Radeon 8500 shaky/flickering display

[Sean453]

I just installed a Radeon 8500 64 MB to replace my 32 MB Geforce DDR card on my XP machine. I purchased the card from Ebay and it was just the card itself. I downloaded the latest windows xp drivers from ATI's website. In Windows it works fine, but in any fullscreen 3D game the display seems to be shaking a little bit and flickers and sometimes random lines flash in the screen. Anyone else have this problem and know how to fix it? Thanks.

 

[Unforgiven]

are the lines you are seeing horizontal or vertical like pinstripes?

 

[Sean453]

The lines are vertical. It gets worse as my FPS increases. But the screen shaking is constant.

 

[Unforgiven]

sounds like you got a video card thats on its last legs. i had the same thing happen with my g4 ti4200 on 3 different cards and it was the video card each time... sounds like you got jobbed on ebay dude

 

[Sean453]

hmm are you sure? It runs absolutely great except for these small bugs. Maybe the Nvidia drivers aren't gone? They should be but maybe not. I've heard a couple people mention a program called Driver Cleaner so maybe I'll try that and reinstall the ATI drivers. If that doesn't work then maybe I'll give the Omega drivers a shot.