About a month ago, I began seeing some texture shimmering/aliasing while gaming on my Sapphire X1900 XTX. I guess I didn't see it before because I wasn't really paying attention. Anyways, it's been really bugging me as of late. I've tried turning on HQ AF and forcing 16x Aniso, and while it does get rid of some shimmering, it definitely doesn't get rid of it all. Enabling Adaptive AA doesn't do a whole lot of good either (although it does make alpha textures look somewhat sharper, like it's supposed to do), plus turning it on causes a very distracting colored line to appear at the top and left of the screen in several games.
I don't see this shimmering/aliasing on ground textures or on large surfaces like flat building walls, but it's very noticeable on character models, weapon models, tree leaves, blades of grass, fences, window sills, stairways, rooftops and the like. I also see it on large bodies of water.
I recently had the chance to try out a 7900GTX and I had the exact same problem except that the shimmering on ground textures was considerably worse than with the X1900 XTX. I don't recall ever seeing anything like this back on my old 6600GT, which I've unfortunately sold to a friend. It never occured to me that much more powerful high end video cards would have worse IQ!
For my Radeon X1900 XTX, I've tested the Catalyst 6.6, 6.7 and 6.8 drivers with ATI Tray Tools and CCC (not both at the same time), and for the 7900GTX which I don't have anymore, I used the 91.31 drivers and the Nvidia classic control panel. The games I've tried are Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, Titan Quest, Serious Sam 2 and Oblivion. All of them show this shimmering effect.
Does anybody else see this? Could it be a driver issue or was I just sold bad cards? Could it be a motherboard issue (I have an Intel D915PCY, BIOS are up to date)? Am I just crazy and hallucinating things? Either way, this is a big turnoff for me. I wish I could provide videos of the problem, but I don't really know how to.
Thanks!
I don't see this shimmering/aliasing on ground textures or on large surfaces like flat building walls, but it's very noticeable on character models, weapon models, tree leaves, blades of grass, fences, window sills, stairways, rooftops and the like. I also see it on large bodies of water.
I recently had the chance to try out a 7900GTX and I had the exact same problem except that the shimmering on ground textures was considerably worse than with the X1900 XTX. I don't recall ever seeing anything like this back on my old 6600GT, which I've unfortunately sold to a friend. It never occured to me that much more powerful high end video cards would have worse IQ!
For my Radeon X1900 XTX, I've tested the Catalyst 6.6, 6.7 and 6.8 drivers with ATI Tray Tools and CCC (not both at the same time), and for the 7900GTX which I don't have anymore, I used the 91.31 drivers and the Nvidia classic control panel. The games I've tried are Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, Half-Life 2, Titan Quest, Serious Sam 2 and Oblivion. All of them show this shimmering effect.
Does anybody else see this? Could it be a driver issue or was I just sold bad cards? Could it be a motherboard issue (I have an Intel D915PCY, BIOS are up to date)? Am I just crazy and hallucinating things? Either way, this is a big turnoff for me. I wish I could provide videos of the problem, but I don't really know how to.
Thanks!