Hey all,
Ive recently just upgraded my PC and i'm experiencing problems with my new gfx card. Firstly my rig spec:
AMD 64 X2 3800+ (bios 1009)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium nforce4 Motherboard
(ATI) Sapphire X1800XT 512mb
Corsair 2x 1gb RAM
250gb Western Digital Caviar SATA 7200rpm
Antec 500w Power Supply
17" TFT LCD Monitor
The problem is whenever i attempt to play the latest games i keep getting what appears to be driver problems. I start games and can only play them on medium/low gfx settings, before the graphics eventually go wrong, roughly 5mins in. By this i mean there are multiple lines across the screen with the graphics all over the place, which leads me to believe ive developed a driver problem.
The thing is, I have tried a few different drivers, all downloaded from the ATI website. The latest one of course being verison 5.13 with CCC and that is what im currently using and still having no luck with. Ive also tried going back to a few of the older drivers just to see if that made a different, but still the same problem.
Example 1.
Attempts to run 3dmark05 bench tests fail mid-flow everytime. The first scene runs fine and fps are great, then at near enough the same point in the second scene of the test, the graphics mess up.
Example 2.
Battlefield 2, runs ok at 800x600 with settings on 'medium'. Crank it up to 1024x768 on 'high' settings and after about 5mins the graphics problem occurs again.
My old card was a 9800XT and could run these games ok on the same medium/low settings, so paying out 350 quid for the latest gfx card, my expectations were a lot higher.
When explaining this problem to friends i always get the same response 'sounds like a driver problem', but i have the latest driver 5.13 with CCC...?
Can anyone help? Im running out of ideas...
Cheers,
Wardy
Ive recently just upgraded my PC and i'm experiencing problems with my new gfx card. Firstly my rig spec:
AMD 64 X2 3800+ (bios 1009)
Asus A8N-SLI Premium nforce4 Motherboard
(ATI) Sapphire X1800XT 512mb
Corsair 2x 1gb RAM
250gb Western Digital Caviar SATA 7200rpm
Antec 500w Power Supply
17" TFT LCD Monitor
The problem is whenever i attempt to play the latest games i keep getting what appears to be driver problems. I start games and can only play them on medium/low gfx settings, before the graphics eventually go wrong, roughly 5mins in. By this i mean there are multiple lines across the screen with the graphics all over the place, which leads me to believe ive developed a driver problem.
The thing is, I have tried a few different drivers, all downloaded from the ATI website. The latest one of course being verison 5.13 with CCC and that is what im currently using and still having no luck with. Ive also tried going back to a few of the older drivers just to see if that made a different, but still the same problem.
Example 1.
Attempts to run 3dmark05 bench tests fail mid-flow everytime. The first scene runs fine and fps are great, then at near enough the same point in the second scene of the test, the graphics mess up.
Example 2.
Battlefield 2, runs ok at 800x600 with settings on 'medium'. Crank it up to 1024x768 on 'high' settings and after about 5mins the graphics problem occurs again.
My old card was a 9800XT and could run these games ok on the same medium/low settings, so paying out 350 quid for the latest gfx card, my expectations were a lot higher.
When explaining this problem to friends i always get the same response 'sounds like a driver problem', but i have the latest driver 5.13 with CCC...?
Can anyone help? Im running out of ideas...
Cheers,
Wardy