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[Alcpone]

Ketxxx did you manage to sort my bios out so the memory stays @ 804 without me having to do it with winclk?

 

[bobyjo]

huh not following.

Maybe I misunderstood? +I was thinking you set the core up to 6xx?
I don't remember seeing where you made any changes to the memory or not.
If you did nothing except upping the voltgage, pardon me for the misunderstanding.

 

[Ketxxx]

Ah yea, about that, the clocks were adjusted to as close as possible to your max, setting higher meant the frequency exceeding your max.

 

[Ketxxx]

Maybe I misunderstood? +I was thinking you set the core up to 6xx?
I don't remember seeing where you made any changes to the memory or not.
If you did nothing except upping the voltgage, pardon me for the misunderstanding.

Attach the BIOS. Edited so many BIOS' for folk lately I lost track.

 

[Alcpone]

Ah yea, about that, the clocks were adjusted to as close as possible to your max, setting higher meant the frequency exceeding your max.

Cool, no worries!

Thanks alot bud!

 

[bobyjo]

Attach the BIOS. Edited so many BIOS' for folk lately I lost track.

Here goes. Would appreciate whatever you can do.
I was thinking of backing off somewhat from the MAX. I would like for the 3dMark benchs to run without any hangs.
Thanks BJ

 

[Alcpone]

Just a couple of comparison screenies

400+ extra points aint too bad!

 

[gol]

hi guys,

i'm french so excuse me for my poor english
i'm following your spread, Ketxxx, for a couple of days, now, with interest cause i have an Asus X1950 pro. I see that nobody has post a bios of that GC, so i do... if that has some interest...?
It has the same name that Bobyjo's one, but some differences in it (compared with notepad ). Do you think i can use the one you modified for him, if my VC support these clocks, tested before, of course ?

 

[bobyjo]

Here goes. Would appreciate whatever you can do.
I was thinking of backing off somewhat from the MAX. I would like for the 3dMark benchs to run without any hangs.
Thanks BJ

You have the core set to 631 or therabouts, then the memory downclocked from 702 to 6xx.
What would be wrong if the core was OC'ed to somewhere close to 600 and leave the memory set to 702?

 

[tkpenalty]

Haven't overclocked yet, and Ketxxx, where I am I need the fans at 100% asap. 80% won't cut it, the heat generated sometimes heats up the ambient temps. I'm still waiting for the VRM module to arrive though D=. They get hot without a heatsink ketxxx.

 

[Ketxxx]

I'll mod first chance I get got a very strange problem atm. Whenever I play oblivion after a certain amount of time it just goes to a black screen with the monitor light still green. So far I tried;

uninstalling, cleaning and reinstalling omega\ngo drivers
set system to stock
uninstalled and reinstalled oblivion
run a defrag
changed swapfile size
set all options to app preference
changed pcie frequency
some other stuff I cant remember
banged my head against a brick wall

Only thing that might have something to do with it is when detecting the 1950 a message about the hardware not being recognised is displayed. Anyone come across this?

 

[unsmart]

I came a cross a similar thing when OCing my jetway. At core speeds of around 630mh the screen will freeze for a sec and then go black after a few minutes of gaming. I get no artifacts and the monitor and system stay on. After a restart theres no error message and everything seems fine. I have no temp monitoring on my card[ that I can find] but all my past cards would artifact or shut down the system when a OC went to far. I really thought nothing of it because I figured my card would crap out at around that speed ether form overheating or lack of voltage. The fact everything stayed running and I got no error code was weird I thought. I did let it sit for a bit one time and it came back in a half desktop/game state, now that was really wierd

 

[bobyjo]

I came a cross a similar thing when OCing my jetway. At core speeds of around 630mh the screen will freeze for a sec and then go black after a few minutes of gaming. I get no artifacts and the monitor and system stay on. After a restart theres no error message and everything seems fine. I have no temp monitoring on my card[ that I can find] but all my past cards would artifact or shut down the system when a OC went to far. I really thought nothing of it because I figured my card would crap out at around that speed ether form overheating or lack of voltage. The fact everything stayed running and I got no error code was weird I thought. I did let it sit for a bit one time and it came back in a half desktop/game state, now that was really wierd

Core speeds of the X1950 Pro's are in the 580-600 area, I would say that 630 would be pushing this card way too much.
I can't get mine to run at anything over 600, much less all the way to 630.

 

[unsmart]

x1950pros come with stock clocks from 575 - 620 for the ones with better cooling, Most come 575 or 580. Mine came 575 and from what I read a 50mh OC is about tops for the x1950pros. Being impatient, I set the core to 530 first I can play the serious sam 2 demo[ my systems benched and thats the smallest high demanding demo I could find]for 20min max before it blacks out. 625 seems stable but I haven't done any real testing. What scares me is the sh*ty heat sink on this card seems almost cool when OCed and I don't have temp monitoring

 

[Ketxxx]

My card is stable (seemingly) with a core speed of 640MHz, no artifacting of any form and benchmarks run fine. Weirder still is that the black screen scenario happens even with my card @ stock anyone got any ideas? got even me stumped this one atm.

Ed - heres a link that may help, its a GAME BUG. nothing to do with hardware or drivers, its damn annoying, I was just starting to get used to HDR as well.. anyone found a fix for it? one of the oblivion unofficial patches maybe?

ED2 - heres a massive google result for oblivion black screening, maybe an answer can be garnered from it.. gl folks.

 

[unsmart]

My card is stable (seemingly) with a core speed of 640MHz, no artifacting of any form and benchmarks run fine. Weirder still is that the black screen scenario happens even with my card @ stock anyone got any ideas? got even me stumped this one atm.

Do you mean stock clocks or bios?
Do you have a different card you could swap in for a test.
It's seems like a issue with the card though. I remember on the Vrzone forums people where have black screens with higher[ above 1.40 I believe] Vgpus with the rev. x1900gt volt mod. I haven't reread the post but I think there where some ideas floating around to what the issue was. There was a lot of people using the mod on the x1950pros in the thread to so you might find something of use.
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=99081
never mind I see you got it

 

[Ketxxx]

Workaround
Hit the tilde key (~) to bring up the console. Type CAL and hit enter. Hit the tilde key again. Resets the game's graphics and brings the game screen back.

Thats according to Oblivion tech support. In a nutshell I'd say their HDR implementation for oblivion sucks hard. Gonna do more reading.

ed- http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66918 some folk have found a codec to be the problem, FFDshow or something, which i know i have installed, and i need it.. f|_|king bethesda.

 

[Pinchy]

hey just be happy its the game and not your gfx card

 

[Ketxxx]

in a way its worse being the game.. means the main reason to buy oblivion is now absolutely bloody worthless.. maybe the unofficial patch does something to fix it.

 

[Pinchy]

na, id rather it be the game than the GPU

If it was the GPU you would have to RMA it wasting time/effort/etc.

By the time you get the RMA'd card, there would probably be a patch to fix it anyway

 

[Ketxxx]

Oblivion has been out months - and no fix for it All I can try is experimenting with different ways the oblivion engine handles HDR or experiment with how ATi \ nVidia cards handle HDR, but that can cause problems such as some textures not being rendered, so I'll just stick to how oblivion handles HDR probably.

 

[Pinchy]

Im sure if they get enough complaints they will release a patch

 

[Bela27]

hi guys,

i'm french so excuse me for my poor english
i'm following your spread, Ketxxx, for a couple of days, now, with interest cause i have an Asus X1950 pro. I see that nobody has post a bios of that GC, so i do... if that has some interest...?
It has the same name that Bobyjo's one, but some differences in it (compared with notepad ). Do you think i can use the one you modified for him, if my VC support these clocks, tested before, of course ?

Hi Ketxxx I need the Asus modded bios too... if u make it please

 

[Ketxxx]

Well its official, bethesda and ati drivers officially suck atm. Weird black screens are inevitable with oblivion and X1950Pros it would seem, it even happens with just bloom lighting, albeit nowhere near as bad and Alt+F4 when it happens under bloom lighting seems to reset the game engine enough to bring the screen back almost instantly with no weirdness \ crashing. Start hounding ATI \ nVidia and Bethesda people.

ed - Just filled out a driver bug form with ATi and a tech support form with bethesda, I'll post their email responses when (IF) they respond.

 

[power 636]

hi all.i have a gecube x1950pro and o/c at 651/864 .i think i cant go higher cause gpu volt .my mem is llimited .can someone help with gpu volts moding? .i have some nice scores but i want better results cause no arctifacts at all i know my card can go higher.sory for my bad english.
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