Help with my new V9999 td

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I've just upgraded my graphics card and I'm getting weird graphical corruption in most, but not all of my games.

Lines come out of the characters, like this

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It happens in FEAR half life 2, Oblivion but not in 3DMark06 or Far Cry

Why is this happening?

I've tried different drivers, underclocking, lowering my RAM speed but nothing makes any difference

Any more suggestions?

Athon 2200+
AN7X8 motherboard
512 Ram
V9999 td Geforce 6800
 
I don't think it's a heating issue because most heating issues create instability but not display anomolies like the one you are experiencing. The nature of the problem indicates that it is almost certainly a problem with the GPU, which sounds obvious but it is important to isolate the problem. It is most likely a driver issue that will almost certainly eventually get resolved, but not neccesarily in the near future. Is there no way you can replace the graphics card? Can you try swapping out the card with a different card from another system just to make sure its the GPU that's the problem?
 
Thanks for the suggestions but no luck i'm afraid...

The card is not overheating it run at about 41C
Turning fastwrites off doesn't make any difference

It deffinatly the card though, replaced it with my old Radeon 7000 and the corruption dissapears completely in Half Life 2

It really looks like its a faulty card. 🙁
 
It Seems That Your Card Is OverHeated :evil: Check Your Temp , Maybe The Fan Of The Card Doesnt Work Well ... Try To Get A New VGA Cooler For Your Graphic Card Like Accelero X1 Or Something Like It :evil:
 
that may sound stupid, but... you said you tried different drivers, but did you try the newest one?
could be memory heating or even a faulty card :/ temp programs dont show temperature for memory...
 
I had a similar problem with my Geforce 6600GT AGP in athlon xp board.

That was down to the motherboard drivers.
Updating the chipset drivers fixed that. It was a SiS chipset though, and I don't know what your mobo uses.
 
Right well, last night I tried to update my BIOS thinking that that might help and ended up killing my motherboard.

I've just installed a new nforce 3 based k8nsc motherboard and athlon 64 which I got a reasonably good deal on.

The problem is still there though...

So it is def a hardware problem I think.

Anybody know how I might underclock the ram to see if that helps?

or how to check the RAM's temp?
 
I don't think so dude can you tell me what the amps on the 12 volt rail or the make of and model the psu.
The v9999 takes lots of power for them they are a strong vcrad that takes up the watts specially the ram this is why I suggest no lessor than a 550 watt with 32 amps or more on the 12 volt rail min of 26A.
 
I don't think so dude can you tell me what the amps on the 12 volt rail or the make of and model the psu.
The v9999 takes lots of power for them they are a strong vcrad that takes up the watts specially the ram this is why I suggest no lessor than a 550 watt with 32 amps or more on the 12 volt rail min of 26A.
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I've checked and you may be right... 25a on the 12v rail

It's a Jon Jye Electronic Co JJ-450

Will replacing my PSU really help though, I've already spent a small fortune on this upgrade... Could have gone PCIe DOH! :roll:
 
disable 1 pixel shadder and 1 vertex shadder the ones you will disable will be the hardware one. I dont want you to speed anymore money but you will need a bigger psu you are just cutting the edge with the 25 a I know I had to get a bigger one too for the ge model. try the underclock first though and if that stops it than you do need a better psu
 
disable 1 pixel shadder and 1 vertex shadder the ones you will disable will be the hardware one. I dont want you to speed anymore money but you will need a bigger psu you are just cutting the edge with the 25 a I know I had to get a bigger one too for the ge model. try the underclock first though and if that stops it than you do need a better psu
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Dude you've got it!

Disabled one pixel shader and on vertex shader and it works!

Trouble is now i'm on 8 pipelines and 4 vertex shaders which of course lowers my fps, so the million dollar questions is this the overclock, or was it the ram you were talking about? Will a new power supply sort it or is my graphics card duff?
 
I think it will but you will have 12 pipes now dude you have the gt and it should be 16 sorry it is the td you will have 12 someone enabled 16 before you got it by the way it looks to me.
 
you will have 12 dude trust me you can enable one vertex shadder with no problem its the pixel that the problem. dude you wont have that much of a fps slow down I havent I still play all the games with really good fps with high to med settings mostly high I turn effects down because I cant see a bloody thing when set to high.
 
I've been looking at various power supplies, not sure which to get...

Alot of them have more than one 12v rail all running at a lower than 26a, should I be looking at the combined ampage on the 12v rail?
 
Raise TRP, TRAS, and maybe CL of your Video RAM.

That or underclock your Video RAM to about 70% stock speed.

Flash the VIDEO CARD with a Gigabyte BIOS, of as similar a card as possible, (Gigabyte use correct Video RAM timings - Often not talked about because most people don't try it) and the problem will go away, you'll likely be able to overclock it after doing this.

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