Radeon 9700Pro artifacts

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My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying
artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest
drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and
lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem
to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit
grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months.
Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for
dodgy video memory etc.

 

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clean all the dust out of your sys after 18 months i bet the fans are cloged
up.
that may help but but also try going back one version of the driver.
im not runing 4.5 now due to same problem.

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"Dale Walker" <dale303@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My 9700pro (Gigabyte Maya II GV-9700pro) has started displaying
> artifacts on most heavy duty games. Not sure whether it's the latest
> drivers of something more fundamental. DXDiag reports no problems and
> lesser demanding apps don't seem to have a problem. 3dmark does seem
> to display the problems however. (lots of triangles, then flashing bit
> grids.) It's been working fine for around 18months.
> Is there a more sophisticated diagnostic tool available to check for
> dodgy video memory etc.

 

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<Heywood> wrote in message
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>
> might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics
> demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic
> cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all
> returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now

That is interesting... just roll back the driver before taking a move like
this one. Who did ya buy the cooler from?

 

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Bought it ffom svc.com
http://svc.com/cardcooler.html look at the bottom...they had very
good service too!
jeff

><Heywood> wrote in message
>news:2rrfb010kp2q7ah04kjpm081oa9c8e41i7@4ax.com...
>>
>> might be heat related as your card begins to stress under graphics
>> demands. Had a similar problem...refitted my 9700 pro with an Artic
>> cooler ($20) instead of the oem fan/sink(took about 10 minutes!)...all
>> returned to normal. Had it about 20 months now
>
>That is interesting... just roll back the driver before taking a move like
>this one. Who did ya buy the cooler from?
>