Louster
One of Freddy's beloved
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- Dec 26, 2003
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I have a radeon 9800 pro 128mb graphics card (I can't remember the actual brand of the thing at this instant, I'll look it up tomorrow) and have had for almost a year, and the warranty's nearly expired, so I need to get this sorted quite quickly. For as long as I remember, I've had weirdnesses with AA in general. In games where it works okay, in most or all of the modes I'll get a square of maybe 2 by 2 pixels size of dead, black pixels, about halfway up and 3/4s of the way along the screen. Not entirely dead, though, just mainly - they'll sporadically return to the correct colours, or even the wrong colours, before returning to black.
However, worse, on some games, most recently Rome: Total War, my computer will die horribly if I go anywhere near enabling AA. It happens quite predictably and reliably. If I enable AA and try and run a game that this happens with (and incidentally, I haven't really figured out why this happens in some games and not others - there is no obvious correlation) first the computer will lock up, stop responding completely. Second the monitor will physically turn itself off, shut down, go into power saving mode, whatever - it's stopped receiving any signal from the graphics card, presumably. Third, and most bizarrely, the speakers will start emitting random bursts of repeating static.
It's pretty irritating.
This has happened with Trackmania, before, and I'm sure some other games, though I don't remember names. With Trackmania, my machine died in the above way if I used "low" or "medium" AA settings; "none" and "high" both worked fine. (What the crap?!)
Is there any way of figuring out for sure what exactly is going on? Or is there any way I can rule out software problems before attempting to send it back? Halpe. Oh halpe.
However, worse, on some games, most recently Rome: Total War, my computer will die horribly if I go anywhere near enabling AA. It happens quite predictably and reliably. If I enable AA and try and run a game that this happens with (and incidentally, I haven't really figured out why this happens in some games and not others - there is no obvious correlation) first the computer will lock up, stop responding completely. Second the monitor will physically turn itself off, shut down, go into power saving mode, whatever - it's stopped receiving any signal from the graphics card, presumably. Third, and most bizarrely, the speakers will start emitting random bursts of repeating static.
It's pretty irritating.
This has happened with Trackmania, before, and I'm sure some other games, though I don't remember names. With Trackmania, my machine died in the above way if I used "low" or "medium" AA settings; "none" and "high" both worked fine. (What the crap?!)
Is there any way of figuring out for sure what exactly is going on? Or is there any way I can rule out software problems before attempting to send it back? Halpe. Oh halpe.
