Radeon 9800 pro and old Counterstrike/OpenGL

[NewportDadde]

I recently purchased a Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb video card by MSI for my PC. I'm enjoying FarCry etc, but occassionally I like to play some Counterstrike. I'm running a P4 2.26, 1G of RAM and Catalyst drivers version 4.7.

The issue I have is during Counterstrike play I seem to get a 'ripple' sort of like a wave in a pond that starts at the top of the screen and will slowly makes it way down to the bottom of the screen at which point it starts over at the top. I've tried setting Vsync on with triple buffering thinking that might be the issue and I had thought it was fixed but last night when I started up CS I'm seeing it again. I've never noticed any type of artifacting etc.

I know FarCry has occassionally had very small distortions(Vysnc not enabled).. but this one really has me baffled. Any ideas on what I'm seeing here? Is it just an issue with an old game and new technology or will this follow me into Doom3 when I get it as well?

 

[kylebisme]

what you are seeings is called image tearing and it is becuase your videocard is sending out a new frame to your mointor despite the fact that the monitor has not finished drawing the current frame. in otherwords, you need to synchronize the buffer swaping on your videocard to the refresh rate of your monitor. to do this in cs or any opengl game; turn vsync to always on in the opengl control panel, and turn triple buffering on in the comptablity options to avoid the harsh framerate drops you get with vsync and only double buffering. in farcry, in the main folder make a text file with the lines:

d3d9_TripleBuffering = "1"
r_VSync = "1"

and rename it SystemCfgOverride.cfg, and make sure you have "hide file extentions of known file types" unchecked in the windows explorer options so you actually change the extention of the file.

 

[mrwxyz]

i actually had that problem too, but it happened outside games....like when i on the net and in office. I think it was my moniter that was dying.