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9800pro Tearing! ARG!

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Ok, just slapped the new system together (sig) and after a day I noticed alot of tearing while I was playing doom3. I was tweaking with settings in the game, but no matter if I was in 640x480 or 1280x1152 (or whatever setting that is) I would get some narley tearing on the screen. Really ruins the game when that happens. Anyways... As a finally of a crappy night of computer hell, my vpu recover tool kicks in and says I need to reboot to restore my video settings. I might add that I wasn't even playing a game at the time. I was just nosing around on the net.

I'm told this happens when the card gets too hot. What do I need to look for? I have a full tower case with 5 8mm fans. 2 in the front (intake) 2 in the back (exhaust) and 1 on the side (intake). I never had this problem except when I OC'd my card too much about 6 moths ago, but that was the only time I ever OC'd the thing and decided it wasn't worth burning it up.

I did put a new fan and some heatsyncs on the RAM chips using arctic silver. It's using a fan called ICEBERQ 6 i think. Didn't really get it to cool the gpu more, just more of a project. It seemed to work fine for about a week, but I've always noticed an occassional amount of tearing on the screen. Anyways, should I put the old heatsync back on? Maybe clean off the gpu and reapply the goop?

This card has worked great for me and not real excited about paying more moenty to replace the damn thing. Anyone had experience with this?
 
is it off by default? Where in the driver is it? Would that directly effect the temperature on the card?
 
Launch your ATI Panel and click on the OpenGL tab. There, you’ll see an option to turn on/off Vsync. Turn it on and that should fix your tearing problems.
 
is it true that tearing is also a sign of overheatting? Would running a game like doom (opengl?) with that option off cause the chip to overheat?
 
also while you're enabling vsync in the opengl tab, make sure you go to compatibility and enable triple buffering.
 
Thanks for the help people. But I guess I need to refrase my last question.

Does VPU recover ONLY kick in when the chip is overheating? Or are there other variables that could cause it to kick in and cause me to reboot. Like I said in the origional post, vpu recover kicked in while I was at the windows desktop. I think I had a browser open, that was pretty much it. '

I will definitely take the advice given so far. Hopefully it would help.

Thank you! :)
 
I have never had the VPU recover tool error out on me and it gets pretty heated in my shuttle during the summer. (right now) But the Vsync thing.. I dont mind tearing for the Highest FPS possible.. Damn that makes me want to play some Old school cs....
 
I think it's ugly and annoying. And it didn't used to do this when the card was in an athlon xp 2500+ system. So it's hard to beleive that screwing around with the driver settings is going to do much. The only other time vpu has kicked in on me was overclocking it too mcuh. I guess I'll funk with the settings in the driver and reapply my arctic silver goop/heatsync and see what happens. Maybe check the agp voltage.. Never did that.

Anyways.... anyone else have any experience with vpu kicking on?
 
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