Solutions to artifacting?

Pestoballs · Aug 16, 2005

i use the catalyst 5.7 on my 9800 and tried reinstalling however im still getting artifacts..

if someone could walk me through some of the setting in the ati control panel to fix this it wouldbe great cause its brand new

thanks

Vulcan · Aug 16, 2005

Pestoballs said:
i use the catalyst 5.7 on my 9800 and tried reinstalling however im still getting artifacts..

if someone could walk me through some of the setting in the ati control panel to fix this it wouldbe great cause its brand new

thanks

If you are getting artifacts on a brand new card theres something wrong with the card itself.

Pestoballs · Aug 17, 2005

but the artifacting only happens when watching videos not when playing games, so that means its a setting

Cheator · Aug 17, 2005

That, or the video card is screwed up. Try the omega drivers (omegadrivers.net) and see if it improves. If it doesn't, card = bad

inferno016 · Aug 17, 2005

it also could be the cooler .. maybe its not seated correctly

Pestoballs · Aug 17, 2005

ill try reseating it

covana2244 · Aug 17, 2005

If my new card was artifacting I would rma and get a good one. No use in chancing it.

Vulcan · Aug 17, 2005

Pestoballs said:
but the artifacting only happens when watching videos not when playing games, so that means its a setting

Well you neglected to mention that in the original post.

What kind of videos, are you sure the artifacting isn't just the video itself?

apu318 · Aug 17, 2005

It probably is the hardware because you get artifacting in the 2D mode but not 3D. The 2D part of the GPU is defective.

Montrealer · Aug 17, 2005

Pestoballs said:
but the artifacting only happens when watching videos not when playing games, so that means its a setting

I got a Sapphire Atlantis 9800 Pro July 30 and noticed the exact same problem on stock settings. 2D and 3D looked ok, but any video (avi/mpg/etc) had blue and red artifacts.

If I used ATI Tray to reduce the clocks down 10% or so the artifacts did not appear. I did a quick google search and found some people in similar situations with 9800 Pros and stock cooling.

I then did some research and decided that since I had paid $180 (CDN) for it I might as well put in another $70 and get a 6600GT, so I exchanged it the next day.

Is yours a Sapphire?

Pestoballs · Aug 18, 2005

nope its not a sapphire, and it is the exact situation that montrealer described...

i guess ill try reducing the clocks down

edit: o and can u run me through what clocks u decreased in the ati control panel to get rid of the artifacting, thanks

lol edit again: underclocked the card like 5 percent and its fine i think im just gonna settle with that..

thanks for the help all

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