whats wrong with my Hd4670 agp card?

[Master]

hello guys , i bought this card almost a month ago , and couple of weeks ago i noticed that
the whole enviroment in game is somekinda blured except objetcs in Space 1 meter radius around me which are vivid and in full detail (when i am kinda far from an object(e.g 2meters) at first its blured and has alittle detail , but when i approaches it and almost touch it it gets is full detail.
at first i thought thats because of the 'draw distance' option which is in the games ( and shows the objects which are far from you in less details or even doesnt show them to you) , but i was wrong ! that has nothing to with them , because when i navigated to the Catalyst Control Center , the Anti-Aliasing Option, in windows 7 , there was this problem again , as you know in win7 there is a playing demo in Anti-Aliasing section which reflects the different setting the user chooses, i have the same problem there too.
i have updated the card driver to 9.12 but no luck .
the card vendor is Club3d .
i dont know what to do , it really bothers me in alot of games !

[Fourstaff]

I think its the Anisotropic Filtering (AF) that you should be bothered about rather than AA

[HalfAHertz]

You know, a screenshot goeas a long way...

[Master]

ok, i try to get a screenshot to show you what i mean , the reason i didnt post any screenShot is that at home i dont have any internet connection , and plus no game was installed .
today i install a game and show you the pics afterward .
before that could it be because of the malfunctioning card? or no thats a windows /driver related problem ?
and oh by the way , i think after installing the newest hotfix for 9.12 catalyst driver for my card , its temperature in idea has increased compared to the former hotfix(9.11)! is it normal too with ati cards?
thanks alot again.

[Master]

i took some screenshots form Crysis Warhead .
the game is set on Enthusiast . I lowered the resolution down to 1024* 768 and windowed to be able to take screenshot .
in ATI Catalyst Center , i set the Anisotropic Filtering to 16 , and AI optimization to Advanced , i also set a option which was for transparent AA stuff to maximum quality !!
the results are as below .
ScreenShots Download link
you can see ScreenShots online here :
as you can see when im kinnda far from an object , the object is not shown , but when i approch more the object becomes visible and the more i approach , the more the object details develop !
i think this issue was even worse when i had the 9.11 driver installed !
anyway is there a way to disable the windows Xp driver verification feature ? because whenever i try to install either of hotfixes (9.11 or 9.12 ) , the installation ends with a yellow sign indicating the installation has not gone smoothly . When i take a look at log file , i see that the Display Driver was not installed , reason ? it says , the driver is not digitally signed !
so how can i cope with this problem too ?
thanks in advance

[Master]

any help?

[werez]

The screens look pretty normal to me i can`t actually see any blur ... try not to set AA and AF from ATI CCC , and let the aplication decide for every game . Then go and make your own settings ingame . BTW are you sure that enthusiast is not too much for your Hd4670 , not to mention AA ? how many fps do you get 10-15 ? what you describe are just low framerates . The gpu can`t keep up with the game . Try lower resolutions / lower details .
"When i take a look at log file , i see that the Display Driver was not installed" - i know that notification can be skipped by ignoring it ( don`t you get a continue anyway button? ) . Anyway make sure you uninstall the drivers before you install new ones .
But like i previously said , you can`t play CRYSIS with the Hd4670 smoothly . Maybe , just maybe you will get like 25 fps on high details 1024x768 .

[Master]

Originally Posted by werez

The screens look pretty normal to me i can`t actually see any blur ... try not to set AA and AF from ATI CCC , and let the aplication decide for every game . Then go and make your own settings ingame . BTW are you sure that enthusiast is not too much for your Hd4670 , not to mention AA ? how many fps do you get 10-15 ? what you describe are just low framerates . The gpu can`t keep up with the game . Try lower resolutions / lower details .
"When i take a look at log file , i see that the Display Driver was not installed" - i know that notification can be skipped by ignoring it ( don`t you get a continue anyway button? ) . Anyway make sure you uninstall the drivers before you install new ones .
But like i previously said , you can`t play CRYSIS with the Hd4670 smoothly . Maybe , just maybe you will get like 25 fps on high details 1024x768 .

thankyou very much . the reason i set to enthusiast was that , i wanted to make sure the game is set to show in maximum detail , why ? because as i showed you the pictures , i cant see some objects in full details! while im alittle bit far from them !and even worst some objects are not visible at all !
i posted some pictures when i was underwater ! see at first there are 3 leaves ! but when i approach just a step! another one turns up! or in other pics which i showed you .
its pretty obvious that some objects dont exist , but when i approach they get created!!
is this a problem with the card? or driver ? or no its pretty natural ?

and the framerate yes its really low . i just set the settings that way to test , not for the actual gaming .
and that continue button you mentioned , no , that popup window never shows up! i also changed the setting under the sign driver option , and chose to install those drivers anyway, but yet no luck .

[HalfAHertz]

I think you get this "pop-up" problem because the card just can't manage loading everything at those settings

[slyfox2151]

is there an option called LOD?

[Master]

Originally Posted by slyfox2151

is there an option called LOD?

i dont think so , i didnt see one .

[werez]

I don`t know ... you should format , make an OS clean install , install the latest drivers , and see if that works . Also try scanning the card for artifacts on stock clocks with Ati tray tools or something and see how that goes . If the card is not artifacting i don`t what defect it may have . Anyway , is the card on stock clocks or did you overclock it ? IF nothing works , just RMA the card .

[Master]

Originally Posted by HalfAHertz

I think you get this "pop-up" problem because the card just can't manage loading everything at those settings

i dont think so , because when i set the setting to minimum , the same issue still persists!

Originally Posted by werez

I don`t know ... you should format , make an OS clean install , install the latest drivers , and see if that works . Also try scanning the card for artifacts on stock clocks with Ati tray tools or something and see how that goes . If the card is not artifacting i don`t what defect it may have . Anyway , is the card on stock clocks or did you overclock it ? IF nothing works , just RMA the card .

i made a clean os install (xp sp3). and the card is in its stock clock . ok . when i get home i test the card with ati tools for any kind of artifacts .
before that i sent an email to club3d support today for the driver update issue, no answer yet .

i dont remember the same problem with my beloved now dead Msi 6600 256 mb agp 8x card in crysis !

thank you every one for your time in helping me .