Problem:
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On my friends computer a couple of titles are causing graphical artifacts on some graphics (transparent overlays and some menu items), not on the whole image. These titles are Battlefield:1942 and C&C:Generals. These are both EA games and I thought maybe it was a problem with shared graphical modules and ATI graphics cards. I haven't tried either of these games on my 9700Pro but will do this evening, and post results here. The other possibility I thought of was that the card or its memory was overheating, but the fact that Medal Of Honor and HL - Counterstrike run flawlessly kinda of disproves that...
Also on occasion the system has rebooted, both running on win2k and winxp. Its a fairly decent power supply of 400w otherwise this would have been my first guess. His +12v line was sitting around 11.63v in the bios which I thought was a little low, but when other games run ok I can't see how the PSU would be the problem.
Isn't BF:1942 using Q3 engine like MOHAA, if so then I don't understand why one runs fine and one has issues.
I tested the game on my 1.7Ghz P4, GF4Go 32mb laptop and it ran more smoothly than my friends system, so definitely a problem here, other than the corruptions and reboots.
The game has the latest patch applied and is using DirectX 9 with Cat3.2. I know that the card isn't directX9 compatible as such but my laptop ran it fine with DirectX9. This is partially why I think it might be an ATI issue, although I wouldn't think it could cause reboots...
Anyway any insights and suggestions of fixs to this problem would be greatly appreciated...
System:
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-Athlon 2100+ @ Stock
-Coolermaster Aluminum silent heatsink (40C idle in BIOS)
-AsRock K7S8X SiS746F
-Powercolor 9000 Pro 64mb @ stock (DirectX9 and Cat3.2)
-Generic 256mb PC2700 (I'll need to check on which chips this has) @ SPD settings
-Onboard sound
-Windows 2000 Professonal SP2
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On my friends computer a couple of titles are causing graphical artifacts on some graphics (transparent overlays and some menu items), not on the whole image. These titles are Battlefield:1942 and C&C:Generals. These are both EA games and I thought maybe it was a problem with shared graphical modules and ATI graphics cards. I haven't tried either of these games on my 9700Pro but will do this evening, and post results here. The other possibility I thought of was that the card or its memory was overheating, but the fact that Medal Of Honor and HL - Counterstrike run flawlessly kinda of disproves that...
Also on occasion the system has rebooted, both running on win2k and winxp. Its a fairly decent power supply of 400w otherwise this would have been my first guess. His +12v line was sitting around 11.63v in the bios which I thought was a little low, but when other games run ok I can't see how the PSU would be the problem.
Isn't BF:1942 using Q3 engine like MOHAA, if so then I don't understand why one runs fine and one has issues.
I tested the game on my 1.7Ghz P4, GF4Go 32mb laptop and it ran more smoothly than my friends system, so definitely a problem here, other than the corruptions and reboots.
The game has the latest patch applied and is using DirectX 9 with Cat3.2. I know that the card isn't directX9 compatible as such but my laptop ran it fine with DirectX9. This is partially why I think it might be an ATI issue, although I wouldn't think it could cause reboots...
Anyway any insights and suggestions of fixs to this problem would be greatly appreciated...
System:
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-Athlon 2100+ @ Stock
-Coolermaster Aluminum silent heatsink (40C idle in BIOS)
-AsRock K7S8X SiS746F
-Powercolor 9000 Pro 64mb @ stock (DirectX9 and Cat3.2)
-Generic 256mb PC2700 (I'll need to check on which chips this has) @ SPD settings
-Onboard sound
-Windows 2000 Professonal SP2