In certain games, I get serious graphic artifacting and the game is completely unplayable. The games I cannot play are Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: Platinum, and Battlefield 1942. Here are some pictures of the problems I get: RCT3: http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/7258/rct3br0.jpg http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/2553/rollcoastuk5.jpg BF1942: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6910/bf1942yi9.jpg I use the latest Omega Drivers (v3.8.360). When I use either ATItool (Which I just recently got rid of) to monitor my temps or Speedfan, idle is around 50 degrees and max is around 72 degrees. When I run either of these two games, the temps rarely hit 60 degrees. All my other games like FEAR, CS 1.6, CS:Source, Battlefield 2, and Quake 4 run flawlessly, and the card runs even hotter when I run some of these games so I don't really think this problem is hardware related. My PC specs: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz RAM: OCZ Gold 2GB DDR2 800MHz RAM Motherboard: Gigabyte 965P-DS3 PSU: Antec Truepower Trio 550w (Three +12v lines all at 18A each)
Whoa. Big problem just jumps off the page, stop using omega drivers!. These drivers are not supported by ATI. And no, they are not cool. 8-| http://ati.amd.com
Even with the regular ATI drivers I get these problems. I noticed them first with the omega drivers, I uninstalled them. Then I installed the regular ATI drivers and I still get the same problems. I posted this on multiple forums and no one was able to solve my problem.
Nope, will look for a driver cleaner on google ASAP. I really hope this will solve my problem, because its kind of annoying not being able to play older games on my new PC. I'm writing a paper for school now so I will respond back with my results here in about 2 days max.
I know a few people have had problems with running the x1950 and the antec power supplies. The card really needs 22 amp, average and not peak, with the multi rail units to function well. The neo would run some systems in other forums. If you have another psu with one rail you may try that one.
I had to fiddle around with different drivers since some of them were causing similar, albeit less severe cr@p in some games, until I found the right ones. You should try experimenting with a number of catalysts and one of them might suit you.
