got a bit of a prob, graphical anomalies

[Capt. Shark Bait]

be kind moot now to go back a version. in about a week.5 i'll have a HD2900XT goin in a relatively new mobo, an A8R32MVP dlx , that'll require a reformat/reinstall of everything

[R3D]

ati's drivers are actually quite solid for the poster complaining about them, as for this issue i suggest you use the driver Cleaner from add/remove programs and wipe ALL trace of the existing drivers off the system (inc catalyst) and re-install the newest (or last known to work) set you can find.

your power supply is more than enough for th card.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

R3D, not sure if it's me you think is complaining or not, but i'm not . i think it's just certain settings in CCC that caused the above, and since having changed those settings, the anomalies are gone which leads me to think it's a driver thing after all and definitely not a reason to goto that puke green of nvidiot. never owned one of those and never will, and no i'm not an ATi "fanboy". they had some missteps with the current new card which i'll have soon, but they still kicked nvidiots @$$ with the 8500 and 9700 Pro, both of which i had. the 9700 i still have as a back up.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

if any are interested, these are the setting i used care of Minoos on the ubi forum. note that i'm not blaming him for the above such are the vagaries of computer code

Hotkeys - disabledAnti-Aliasing - 4xAnisotropic filtering - 8xCatalyst A I - AdvancedAdaptative AA - disabledVsync - off/app setting

[MONOLITH]

Originally Posted by Capt. Shark Bait

now i can actually read the hydraphone dials, whereas before they were severely blurry and thought it was a resolution thing

The blurry dials is caused by the mipmap setting. Setting mipmapping to a low setting cause a 'foggyhaze' ingame.

[MONOLITH]

Wow, that was freaky.

I was posting about your power supply, and fried my own! LOL.

Holy Kharma.

Thank goodness I have a spare on hand.


Anyway...two posts in here say your 550Watt PSU is more than enough for your card, But nowhere in this thread have you posted the card your actually using right now. I only see the card you're getting.

Just wanted to say that a 550 PSU may not be enough. I bought an ATIX1950 Pro, and a brand new 550 was NOT enough to run the card, and the MOBO, and two disc drives, etc.

I currently have two power supplies connected to my rig, a 550 to run the X1950 and MOBO, and a 300 running my drives.

Just a few watts under can cause the card to whack out like you're seeing. When I see your screens, it looks like either 1. Overheating, 2. Underpowered 3. either the vid card or PSU is simply starting to go bad 4. driver issue

But plenty of others are on the 7.4 driver, including me, without those problems.

Anyway, main point is with current video cards, plus a mobo , plus a couple drives, a 550w is not always enough anymore.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

card's in my sig, a 850XT and it's not overclocked so i doub't it was a heat issue, but as i said above, after setting those i changed back to what the were, those anomalies went away which leads me to think that certain settings in combination could very well be the cause