I've have a Sapphire Radeon 9800 non-pro running a WinXP system for over a year now and maybe the past 7 months I've noticed graphical glitches in some programs. The one's in question are Everquest, American McGee's Alice and Aquamark3. (There may be others but these are the only 3 I have installed that show a problem.
The glitches come in the form of flashing corrupt textures that appear now and again of varying size. I have concidered overheating of the card but even with a cold start as soon as these run the problems begin. Other programs like BF Vietnam, Doom3, Far Cry and 3DMark03 show no problems at all.
The only thing I can think of that seemed to coincide with the glitches was the installation of DX9b. However I am now using DX9c and there is no difference.
Could this be caused by faulty ram on the card or a driver problem? I update drivers with every release but one thing that may be related is that WinXP always manages to install its reference drivers before I get the new drivers installed after I uninstall and reboot.
Just wondering if anyone has had similar problems and possibly solution to this?
Thanks
Craig
The glitches come in the form of flashing corrupt textures that appear now and again of varying size. I have concidered overheating of the card but even with a cold start as soon as these run the problems begin. Other programs like BF Vietnam, Doom3, Far Cry and 3DMark03 show no problems at all.
The only thing I can think of that seemed to coincide with the glitches was the installation of DX9b. However I am now using DX9c and there is no difference.
Could this be caused by faulty ram on the card or a driver problem? I update drivers with every release but one thing that may be related is that WinXP always manages to install its reference drivers before I get the new drivers installed after I uninstall and reboot.
Just wondering if anyone has had similar problems and possibly solution to this?
Thanks
Craig