So i was playing a lot of BC2 last week when i was sick, so i rolled my 10.6 drivers back to 10.4 because of the crashing issues with releases after 10.4, and when i rebooted, if i ran anything with a gpu load (flash, firefox gpu accellerated, ect) i would get this nasty artifacting, generally on the other screen of my 2 screen setup but not exclusively. running milkyway@home or a game causes the issue to go away, but unlike with bad video ram or other artifacting, taking a screenshot of the problem doesnt capture it, so i took some photos on my phone. disabling aero lessens the issue as well, but it is still present even with it disabled.
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2815/img0213e.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2655/img0214p.jpg
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2756/img0215c.jpg
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2930/img0216n.jpg
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6114/img0217wb.jpg
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the issue as you can see makes some of the text distorted, and it is scrolling and flickering at the same time, making whichever screen it is happening on basically unusable. how it manifested was i went in with the cat 10.6 installer, uninstalled just the graphics driver, ran ccleaner, rebooted, and installed the 10.4 driver. once it started happening, i uninstalled everything, ran ccleaner again, rebooted, reinstalled drivers, same issue. uninstall again, reboot into safe mode, run ccleaner there, delete every ATI folder on my comp (removing any config data that may cause issues). at this point my only option left is to do an OS reinstall, so i figured i would check with you lot first. any ideas? i have had repeated recurring phantom issues that i cant isolate with my 5870(s) in this system since i got my first one at launch, but XFX RMA didnt find any issues with the card. im wondering if i should send the other one, or both, in, so they can test them together, but i have gone through plenty of other driver installs progressively with each release without any problems thus far as well. i can also swap the 2 5870s in this box for the 2 in my other box and see if the issue still persists with different hardware (both are non ref center fans instead of the ref blower fan, with different PCB), ruling that out entirely, but thats a lot of work since it requires taking down both systems and squeezing the cards in system 2 around the tubing from my bottom mounted radiator.
http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/2815/img0213e.jpg
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/2655/img0214p.jpg
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/2756/img0215c.jpg
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/2930/img0216n.jpg
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6114/img0217wb.jpg
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7748/img0218uu.jpg
the issue as you can see makes some of the text distorted, and it is scrolling and flickering at the same time, making whichever screen it is happening on basically unusable. how it manifested was i went in with the cat 10.6 installer, uninstalled just the graphics driver, ran ccleaner, rebooted, and installed the 10.4 driver. once it started happening, i uninstalled everything, ran ccleaner again, rebooted, reinstalled drivers, same issue. uninstall again, reboot into safe mode, run ccleaner there, delete every ATI folder on my comp (removing any config data that may cause issues). at this point my only option left is to do an OS reinstall, so i figured i would check with you lot first. any ideas? i have had repeated recurring phantom issues that i cant isolate with my 5870(s) in this system since i got my first one at launch, but XFX RMA didnt find any issues with the card. im wondering if i should send the other one, or both, in, so they can test them together, but i have gone through plenty of other driver installs progressively with each release without any problems thus far as well. i can also swap the 2 5870s in this box for the 2 in my other box and see if the issue still persists with different hardware (both are non ref center fans instead of the ref blower fan, with different PCB), ruling that out entirely, but thats a lot of work since it requires taking down both systems and squeezing the cards in system 2 around the tubing from my bottom mounted radiator.
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