Red tint PC Games, but not on desktop? Card fried?

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I removed the GPU heatsink off my Raddy 9700, and using TIM-clean I removed
the gunk ATI puts on their cards and proceeded to apply Nanotherm PCM+.
After applying a single drop and spreading the drop uniformly around the
die, I applied it to the aluminum heatsink.

Booted up, everything looks great. Desktop looks normal, and so does
Photoshop, et al.

I fire up Battlefield 1942, after installing Catalyst 3.8 drivers this
morning and I notice a red tint on the screen right off the bat.

Did I fry my GPU? I used a latex glove when applyning the small drop of
Nanotherm thermal grease. I made sure not to have a static discharge, by
grouding myself with the power supply outside case.

Where did I go wrong? I am not overclocking at all, I just want to run
default settings and see how far I can go. But now, I'm scared sh*tless I
fried my videocard.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

S.Anderson
 
Holy crap! That fixed it. Going back to Catalyst 3.7 games run and look
fine!

But wait, does that mean I can't upgrade to Catalyst 3.8? And if so, why
does it give me a red tint when playing games? And not my desktop, internet,
photoshop?
 
submit your specs and problem to the cat crew
you can try and do the 3.8s and then check settings in display properties, i noticed a smoothtechnology logo where there were aa
controls...
 
Nevermind guys. I am such a dolt.

I forgot to switch to 32-bit color, I had on 16-bit by default.

Geez..my fault.
 
no chance you had one of the new gimick shaders running? I know one of them
does a redish tint.

JAD said:
submit your specs and problem to the cat crew
you can try and do the 3.8s and then check settings in display properties,
Click to expand...
i noticed a smoothtechnology logo where there were aa
 
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