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Gawd
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I've had this ATI 9800 Pro (AGP) since a month after it was initially released. The card has done well for me for quite a while now.
Today sometime I decided to reinstall Battlefield 2 Special Forces expansion pack. Ive had vanilla Battlefield 2 installed on this box for several months now and was wanting to play the special forces maps since I've grown bored of Sharqi, Karkland, Jala, and etc.
Well, after installing Special Forces again I fired it up and noticed major artifacts. This is a new issue to me with this box. The games are still playable, but I don't want to game with tearing and "sparklies" popping up everywhre. I've never had any gaming issues since I've built this PC a couple of years ago. I rebooted and the problem still was there. So, i did what any self respecting geek would and reinstalled Battlefield 2 and Special forces and then of course patched to 1.4. This didn't fix anything.
I decided to test to see if it was just a Battlefield 2 problem and fired up Half Life 2 episode one since the Half Life stuff always runs like butter in my experience. Well,,,,I had artifacts there too. I even get artifacts in Google Earth now.
Is the ATI card dieing or does this point to a software issue. I haven't tried reinstalling drivers or DirectX yet. I'm running catalyst 8.263
UPDATE: I just uninstalled the ATI drivers and pulled the latest version off from ATI's site. The problem with artifacts still remains. Any advice or insight?
Today sometime I decided to reinstall Battlefield 2 Special Forces expansion pack. Ive had vanilla Battlefield 2 installed on this box for several months now and was wanting to play the special forces maps since I've grown bored of Sharqi, Karkland, Jala, and etc.
Well, after installing Special Forces again I fired it up and noticed major artifacts. This is a new issue to me with this box. The games are still playable, but I don't want to game with tearing and "sparklies" popping up everywhre. I've never had any gaming issues since I've built this PC a couple of years ago. I rebooted and the problem still was there. So, i did what any self respecting geek would and reinstalled Battlefield 2 and Special forces and then of course patched to 1.4. This didn't fix anything.
I decided to test to see if it was just a Battlefield 2 problem and fired up Half Life 2 episode one since the Half Life stuff always runs like butter in my experience. Well,,,,I had artifacts there too. I even get artifacts in Google Earth now.
Is the ATI card dieing or does this point to a software issue. I haven't tried reinstalling drivers or DirectX yet. I'm running catalyst 8.263
UPDATE: I just uninstalled the ATI drivers and pulled the latest version off from ATI's site. The problem with artifacts still remains. Any advice or insight?