ATI Clock settings - CCC - Help!!

[Arclight]

(About the voltage lock)

GIGABYTE ruined their AMD HD 6850 OC version by using a non-common Core voltage controller which has no software support, which means we're limited to stock voltage overclocking.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...&limitstart=12

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Arclight

(About the voltage lock)

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...&limitstart=12

Oh if only I had seen this earlier, one of the most important things I do is check reviews, and the one I read said excellent overclocking able to set the voltage to 1.299, but that was an older version of the card, I have to put up with this one the way it is, still it is not bad overclocked and certainly runs cool!

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Was that already installed when you swapped the cards?
You might want to try to play with the video configuration like toggling between low and high and see if the texture problem still happens

also does the game have In-game AA and AF settings? if they do and you have them enabled make sure the ATI control panel is not overriding them with his own AA and AF settings, if they do toggle them back to Application default

HunterICX

You may have hit the nail on the head!! Never thought of that, I will do some tests!

[Reece]

You were correct Wim!! I changed to OpenGL and the problem was gone, I have CCC AA set to environment rather than Application controlled for games such as SH3, I will change this back then try again Trainz with DirectX!
Hope there is an improvement because the new card still jerks around, maybe one of the following problems:
1) Upgrade from Win XP 32bit to Win 7 64 bit and up the ram to 8Gb
2) Upgrade the CPU from dual core Phenom II to 4 core!

[Reece]

Well that is a poo!! OpenGL works with poor frame rates, DirectX has better fraps but the texture problem is still there regardless of changing the CCC settings to application controlled!!

[Gerald]

Reece,your device drivers up-to-date

[Reece]

Yes latest (11.6), might try old drivers that came with the card!

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Reece

Yes latest (11.6), might try old drivers that came with the card!

Wise ... it's not always that new drivers are best,

[Jan Kyster]

Originally Posted by Reece

...now I have a texture problem with Trainz!! ...I am using XP 32bit and the new card is 1Gb instead of 512Mb I'm running out of ram!!

Two quotes for inspiration...

- the problem is coming from CMP and your video card corrupting the textures while they are being compressed and mipped. Turn off hardware accelerated compression in your CMP settings

- open your "Option" settings and turn your Texture Passes to maximum

Originally Posted by Reece

1) Upgrade from Win XP 32bit to Win 7 64 bit and up the ram to 8Gb
2) Upgrade the CPU from dual core Phenom II to 4 core!

Two brilliant ideas! Everything above 6 GB really makes Win 7 take off