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Hi, all.
I have a 9800Pro 128MB from a couple/three years ago.
I recently bought a refurb'd X850Pro direct from ATI.
I wanted to get a comparison of speed before and after the change, so I
ran 3DMark06 against my 9800.
I didn't worry much about changing settings or selecting tests; I
figured that if the card couldn't handle a certain function, then the
test would not be run.
I saw a whole mess of graphical corruption on the screen after a while.
And now, I see the same corruption in games, and in normal windows.
I'm curious if there's a possibility the 3DMark tests might have smoked
my card's memory or something? I had something similar happen to a
GeForce some years ago; I started seeing stray polygons in some
Direct3D Games; ended up pitching the card.
I can see the corruption as I type this, and it was captured with a
PrtScr.
I've uploaded a sample image to
http://members.shaw.ca/robertrd/corruption.jpg, in case anyone's
curious.
Interestingly, in the time that it's taken to draft this post, the
corruption has dissipated. I just came out of a game in which it was
rather severe... Evidence suggests that it starts to manifest as
intense graphics processing starts (ie a game) and subsides afterwards.
NEVER seen this before, and I've had this system unchanged for about 3
years.
Any opinions?
Thanks!!
BD
I have a 9800Pro 128MB from a couple/three years ago.
I recently bought a refurb'd X850Pro direct from ATI.
I wanted to get a comparison of speed before and after the change, so I
ran 3DMark06 against my 9800.
I didn't worry much about changing settings or selecting tests; I
figured that if the card couldn't handle a certain function, then the
test would not be run.
I saw a whole mess of graphical corruption on the screen after a while.
And now, I see the same corruption in games, and in normal windows.
I'm curious if there's a possibility the 3DMark tests might have smoked
my card's memory or something? I had something similar happen to a
GeForce some years ago; I started seeing stray polygons in some
Direct3D Games; ended up pitching the card.
I can see the corruption as I type this, and it was captured with a
PrtScr.
I've uploaded a sample image to
http://members.shaw.ca/robertrd/corruption.jpg, in case anyone's
curious.
Interestingly, in the time that it's taken to draft this post, the
corruption has dissipated. I just came out of a game in which it was
rather severe... Evidence suggests that it starts to manifest as
intense graphics processing starts (ie a game) and subsides afterwards.
NEVER seen this before, and I've had this system unchanged for about 3
years.
Any opinions?
Thanks!!
BD