Not sure overheating is the problem- actually ATI cards don't make as much
heat as some of the GeForce cards do, and the Radeon 9000 doesn't have high
cooling requirements.
I get similar things happening with a Radeon 9700 Pro in OpenGL games
like Medal of Honor (texture tearing and artifacts, although very briefly
and it's not very often but still looks ugly), yet this doesn't occur in
D3D- except BF 1942, for some reason I've seen a very wierd artifacting
there too, although it only occurs on some maps (like Berlin). I haven't
messed with the clock of the card ever. My guess is its a driver problem if
not some underlying hardware bug. If it were overheating/overclocking or
just fried, I'd see it in every game, I would think. Perhaps ATI is making
too agressive of optimizations and "broke" something, or their OpenGL
drivers just need more work. Also, the AGP voltage might not be right. I
just don't know enough about these things to say for sure. Curiously
enough, I've seen the same problem with Battlefield and a GeForce FX... so
who knows... might be something on the motherboard.
It would be great to find a utility you could test the "health" of your
videocard, memory, etc. Look for failing transistors or parts, and so on,
because the problem is disconcerting.
> My issue was almost the same - Playing mohaa would work fine for about
> the first 5 minutes - then some bits would appear, flashing at random.
> Then a texture or two would turn a neon hue.
> Come to find out the Radeon card was over heating - granted its a
> 9200, I picked up for $90. But still - it should work out of the box.
> The heatsink was over 140 degrees F after a hour of game play.
> My case is very ventilated (8 x 80mm fans), my case may reach 80
> degrees F and cpu hardly every reach 110 F so I returned it and got a
> GeForce FX 5200 and haven't had a problem since.
> Looking back, this card was built by Powercolor... a seemingly
> offbrand builder of ATI cards. I should have inspected the card more
> closely before buying it. The heatsink itself was about the same size
> as the one on my Via KT400 northbridge.
> > Thanks for the reply. I tried using the computer at the default 2.4Ghz
and
> > it didn't help.
> > > Hi
> > > Hmm, I can't help you much except to say that I have used Catalyst
3.4-3.6
> > > on my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with no problems, so I don't think it has
> > anything
> > > to do with the drivers in it self.
> > > You seem to o/c quite a lot and you describe that most games don't run
as
> > > they should - maybe you should try to not o/c and see how things go.
> > > Question is also do you really need Anisotropic filtering and
> > Smoothvision?
> > > I turn it off to get more speed.
> > > [DTO]Pvt.MoneyShot
> > > P.S. I have had some heating problems that was solved by adding some
extra
> > > fans in my tower, but other than that it runs like a dream.
> > > > Does anyone have the following problem with ATI Radeon 9000 pro
cards
> > (or
> > > > the other cards in general) when using EA Games programs using
Catalyst
> > 3.4,
> > > > 3.5, and 3.6? For example, in Medal of Honor, including Spearhead, I
get
> > > > flashing red squares showing up on the walls and floors, especially
in
> > the
> > > > snow. In F1 2002 (with GTR Racing) and Madden 2003 I get textures
> > ripping
> > > > and flashing everywhere. I don't get this with any other
manufacturer's
> > > > programs.
> > > > I've tried using the Omega drivers without luck. I've tried V-sync
and
> > it
> > > > didn't help. In the case of the ripping and flashing bars of
textures it
> > > > appears to come on whenever Anisotropic filtering and Smoothvision
are
> > > > turned on. This is especially true with F1 2002 and GTR Racing and
> > Madden
> > > > 2003. As for the flashing red squares in Medal of Honor I had that
with
> > each
> > > > of my different systems. I thought everything was happening because
my
> > > > machine wasn't fast enough for anisotropic and smoothvision
filtering
> > but
> > > > that turned out not to be the case.
> > > > My previous system was as follows:
> > > > Abit BH6 (original) motherboard
> > > > 256 meg of RAM
> > > > 600mhz Slot 1 Pentium 3 o/c to 800mhz
> > > > My current system is as follows:
> > > > Asus P4P800 motherboard
> > > > 512 megs of dual DDR400 RAM
> > > > Pentium 4 2.4c o/c to 3.2 Ghz
> > > > So my system nowdays should be plenty fast. I even get over 36fps in
> > FS2004.
> > > > I thought perhaps my system was overheating, especially the memory,
but
> > I
> > > > put Thermaltake copper cooling kits on my DDR memory and heatsinks
on my
> > ATI
> > > > 9000 Pro. However, it doesn't seem to help.
> > > > Anyone have any ideas? I'm actually thinking it might actually be
the
> > > > Catalyst drivers, especially the newest ones because it appears that
> > > > anisotropic and smoothvision filtering take place regardless of my
> > settings.
> > > > There's no place to turn it off.
> > > > Thanks for any thoughts or ideas.
> > > > Nathan
