7800gt Artifacting

[Maestro2U]

My BFG 7800gt OC is showing artifacts in BF2. They appear as dark tears usually eminating from player models and even more specifically their weapons. I also see many chasms in the ground as i run through different maps. It's a brand new build and I'm going to install HL2 quick to see if it has the same problem.

Athlon 64 +3000 (Venice)
2 gigs (512mb x4) Kingston Value RAM
Abit AX8 K8T890

I installed WinXP Pro with SP2 after putting the 4in1 drivers and the driver for a 64bit processor that came on the motherboard CD. I'm using the newest drivers for the card also (77.77). Anyone have ideas?

I'll post back again as soon as HL2 is up and running.

 

[whoami]

Sounds like overheating to me.

 

[LogicSound]

yeah sounds like heat, did you overclock your card? and 77.77 isn't the newest drivers out, search for 78.01 and 78.11 im using the 78.01 drivers right now for my BFG 6800 GT oc and they werk damn good, made BF2 run perfectly with everything set to high and maxed out what i could with it, also got my AA up to 4x cause thats the max i can go. well good luck.

 

[ThreeDee]

whats your temps showing on the vidcard under load?

 

[jhatfie]

I had a Evga 7800GT that would not run at stock speeds. It would cause tearing and artifacts in games and benchmarks and sometimes occasional crashing. Using coolbits, the core would not even pass the test at stock speeds (445mhz on the Evga). I have since returned it for a replacement that works fine.

 

[Pkirk618]

try enabling fast write in BIOS.

 

[ZXQ]

I had a Evga 7800GT that would not run at stock speeds. It would cause tearing and artifacts in games and benchmarks and sometimes occasional crashing. Using coolbits, the core would not even pass the test at stock speeds (445mhz on the Evga). I have since returned it for a replacement that works fine.

stock 7800GT core speed is 400, no matter who made it.