White specks + artifiact probs with radeon

killerwibblekillerwibble
edited November 2003 in Hardware
I'm running a radeon 9800 pro on the lastest omega drivers. I switched to the omega ones because of the weird white specks problem I had with the stock ATI drivers. The problem would be weird white specks appearing in between texture tiles. It would appear in Direct X games. anybody know a solution to this? I've had the same problem appear on Halo, and Max Payne 2.

Help would be much appreciated. :banghead:

Comments

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Um, a more advanced DirectX than the games were coded for, and too FAST a refresh rate???

    John.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    White specks showing up on textures usually indicates that the card has been overclocked too far. They appear during any 3D session on my R9800 flashed to 9800 Pro card when I push the core over 412 MHz and the memory over 760 MHz.

    If you are overclocking the card, back both the memory and VPU clock speeds down 5 MHz and try again.

    AFAIK, it's not a driver issue and has absolutely nothing to do with DirectX version or refresh rate.
  • killerwibblekillerwibble
    edited November 2003
    Hmm, yea, it can't be refresh rate, that's monitor and it'd flicker. However, i didn't OC, well, I flashed a non-pro into a pro.. That may be it. I'll underclock the card a bit until I get my new memory heat sinks in. The memsinks should sovle the program right?
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    Does your card have Infineon RAM modules by chance?
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Doubtful. Those *sound like* core, rather than memory, artifacts.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Those are memory artifacts.
  • killerwibblekillerwibble
    edited November 2003
    No I have samsung 3.3 ns rated RAM. Thanks for all your help tho.
  • killerwibblekillerwibble
    edited November 2003
    So those ARE memory artifacts? I'm getting heat sinks for the memory so...
  • DisvengeanceDisvengeance
    edited November 2003
    Heatsinks dont usually help much at all on vid cards ram. Youre probably just pushing the ram too far, its not that its due to overheating.
  • killerwibblekillerwibble
    edited November 2003
    Hmm, really? any second opinions?

    Also how about upping the voltage to the agp slot? Would 175 be a safe voltage? Or is that too much?

    :edit: Also I'm using a SFF pc so it's smaller and it might run hotter than most pc's so if that's a factor...
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