Radeon 9800 PRO problems

[LordjOX]

Hi there, bought a Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO for about a month ago
Problem is that in daoc, I get graphic bugs from time to time.
-The VPU recover shit pops up resulting in GFX bug
-The screen turns entirely black, and I cant do shit

Afaik this only happens in DaoC, I played thru all Doom3 without any problems

My specs:
AMD64 3000+
1GB Twinmos DDR400
GFX card as noted above
Win2k

- I have Directx 9.0c installed
- I have the newest chipset drivers installed
- I have the newest ATI catalyst drivers installed
- I have SP4 and all updates on windows installed

This just takes the piss, altho it doesnt not happen often
But sucks running in emain/odins and crashing

 

[Iceforge]

Hi there, bought a Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO for about a month ago
Problem is that in daoc, I get graphic bugs from time to time.
-The VPU recover shit pops up resulting in GFX bug
-The screen turns entirely black, and I cant do shit

Afaik this only happens in DaoC, I played thru all Doom3 without any problems

My specs:
AMD64 3000+
1GB Twinmos DDR400
GFX card as noted above
Win2k

- I have Directx 9.0c installed
- I have the newest chipset drivers installed
- I have the newest ATI catalyst drivers installed
- I have SP4 and all updates on windows installed

This just takes the piss, altho it doesnt not happen often
But sucks running in emain/odins and crashing

My spec's are very simulair, and my GFX card is also Radeon 9800 Pro, but Excalibur Icy Cooling model, and I have only had good experiences in DAoC...

I dont think I have SP4 installed tho, might be Microsoft fucking up, just for a change?

But really, I have no clue to what is the problem, just wanted to point out that Radeon 9800 Pro and DAoC can work together

 

[plomien]

I had the same problem. the memory on the card was shot.
send it back get a new one.
then go here : http://www.techpowerup.com/softmod/ get the softmod drivers and ati tool and tweak the card.

I am now running at rather nice XT speeds

 

[Fana]

Try to disable Fastwrite in the Ati control panel.

 

[LordjOX]

Try to disable Fastwrite in the Ati control panel.

Didn't work

 

[harm]

Try turning off the VPU recover system in the graphics control panel. For some people it seems to cause more trouble than being helpful.