Video card issue

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Davek

I installed a new video card this evening, a Sapphire Radeon
7000. Everything seemed fine until I played one of my old
video games. Parts of a scene in the game would remain on
my screen into the next scene. An example would be a menu
would stick in the middle of my screen as the game began.
What causes this? Is there anything I can do to get the
game to play right? My old card was an older nvidia and it
played the game fine. I'm running Windows XP Pro.
Everything on this machine is the same as it's always been
except for the card change this evening.

TIA,
- Dave Kistner
 
I put one of those cards, in my box, 1.5yrs ago. I took it back, 2 days
later, and got a GF3 Ti200. Why? It sucked, for gaming (at least the games
that *I* played, at that time).

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Davek stood up at show-n-tell, in [email protected],
and said:
 
I installed a new video card this evening, a Sapphire Radeon
7000. Everything seemed fine until I played one of my old
video games. Parts of a scene in the game would remain on
my screen into the next scene. An example would be a menu
would stick in the middle of my screen as the game began.
What causes this? Is there anything I can do to get the
game to play right? My old card was an older nvidia and it
played the game fine. I'm running Windows XP Pro.
Everything on this machine is the same as it's always been
except for the card change this evening.

TIA,
- Dave Kistner
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-Uffp, replacing _any_ nVidia card with 7000...
Well I suppose the old one broke or something, and you needed a cheap
replacement.
Question: Is the game using OpenGL? If it is, there's a good chance
you won't solve this problem. But good luck anyway. There might be
some configuration options in your system graphic properties. Check it
out.

Otherwise, I would say it's something in the driver chain that is
causing the problem.
Game->Windows->DX->virtual driver->driver services->videocard.
If you haven't already, get new 'XP'-certified Radeon7000 drivers from
some website, rather than the ones on the (probably old) CD that came
with the card.


ancra
 
Ancra said:
-Uffp, replacing _any_ nVidia card with 7000...
Well I suppose the old one broke or something, and you needed a cheap
replacement.
Question: Is the game using OpenGL? If it is, there's a good chance
you won't solve this problem. But good luck anyway. There might be
some configuration options in your system graphic properties. Check it
out.

Otherwise, I would say it's something in the driver chain that is
causing the problem.
Game->Windows->DX->virtual driver->driver services->videocard.
If you haven't already, get new 'XP'-certified Radeon7000 drivers from
some website, rather than the ones on the (probably old) CD that came
with the card.


ancra
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I'm no expert...

But i believe the Radeon 7000 has no texture & lighting hardware
acceleration.
It's not (or wasn't!) a great selling point for the Radeon 7000 - later 7xxx
series models had the texture & lighting hardware acceleration enabled.

Still i like my Radeon 7000 with it's twin VGA and tv-out :-)

Martin.
 
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