Hello, I'm new to these forums.
Anyhoo, got myself a HD3850 two days ago, and it has been giving me trouble ever since I got it. The installation of the card seemed to go okay and without any problems, then installed the drivers and tried 3DMark06 along with NFS: Prostreet. Everything seemed fine in these two, maybe there was one or two occasional errors in Mark06 but didn't notice ANYTHING in Prostreet.
After that, I tried Crysis and the slope downhill began. This game gives me weird texture errors, like this:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error_2.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error_3.jpg
And last but not the least, after putting the fan up to 75%, opening the side panel and changing the ingame settings a bit:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/Crysis.jpg
After trying Crysis, I've tried another 4-5 games and 3 of them haven't basically given any errors at all (Enemy Territory, ET: Quake Wars and NFS: PS), while others share a similar problem as Crysis does. So far I've tried:
I'm basically starting to run out of options here. Either the card is dead/dying, the drivers are TOTALLY messed up for some reason, or then it's something I can't think of with my small brains. Sure, it could be some sort of error with my mobo ''not supporting this card'', but I dunno, ASRock seemed to say that it'd work fine, at least the HD3870..? Guess I could try to reseat the card or something.
Here's my specs:
EDIT: Here's a few other kind of shots from my card:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/HD_comparison.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/HD_layout.jpg
Anyhoo, got myself a HD3850 two days ago, and it has been giving me trouble ever since I got it. The installation of the card seemed to go okay and without any problems, then installed the drivers and tried 3DMark06 along with NFS: Prostreet. Everything seemed fine in these two, maybe there was one or two occasional errors in Mark06 but didn't notice ANYTHING in Prostreet.
After that, I tried Crysis and the slope downhill began. This game gives me weird texture errors, like this:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error_2.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/error_3.jpg
And last but not the least, after putting the fan up to 75%, opening the side panel and changing the ingame settings a bit:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/Crysis.jpg
After trying Crysis, I've tried another 4-5 games and 3 of them haven't basically given any errors at all (Enemy Territory, ET: Quake Wars and NFS: PS), while others share a similar problem as Crysis does. So far I've tried:
- 1. To reinstall drivers, and installed Crysis hotfix.
- 2. Doing that BIOS pipeline thingy that was posted to this forum (no help, only weird red boxes on the screen, looked like the card was dying).
- 3. Tried ATITool and ran the artifact scanning @ stock clocks for 15min without ANY yellow dots.
I'm basically starting to run out of options here. Either the card is dead/dying, the drivers are TOTALLY messed up for some reason, or then it's something I can't think of with my small brains. Sure, it could be some sort of error with my mobo ''not supporting this card'', but I dunno, ASRock seemed to say that it'd work fine, at least the HD3870..? Guess I could try to reseat the card or something.
Here's my specs:
- Intel Core 2 E4300 @ stock
- 2 GB DDR2 667mhz
- ATI HD3850 @ stock
- ASRock 4Core-VSTA
- Corsair VX450
- Windows XP SP1
EDIT: Here's a few other kind of shots from my card:
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/HD_comparison.jpg
http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r150/Xolairs_bucket/HD_layout.jpg