Alright so I had to recently format my comp (yay for windows inevitable slow and steady degredation)... before then, i was playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Then after format, I natually got the latest 6.9 drivers for my Radeon 9800 card.
Now the problem... occationally the graphics will go totally insane! It starts off with annoying 'blocky noise' (seen in this screen cap: http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1086/gtasagraphicbugrm1.jpg ) Shortly after, the polygons go totally nuts (imagine taking a point of an object now stretch it out really far...now do this all over the screen so you cant see a thing! Dont have a screen cap at the moment as i cant reliably re-create this and when i took the one before it some how fixed itself when i switched from photoshop back to the game....seems to be if i stay out of the game for a few minutes it goes away - for a while) At first i thought it was just a bug related to GTA:SA except it worked perfectly before the format and i got to the 3rd area and was doing the Caligula missions (which is near the end for those not familiar with the game) before i formated and no hint of any graphical issues.
Also i got similar 'blocky' artifacts in another game (America's Army)...although i ended up closing the game rather than face the 'polygons of doom' so i'm not totally sure if it would have had the same end-result... (being an online game, didnt really want to get mauled due to graphical errors)
And now tonight i was playing Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and any time i have "dymanic glow" enabled the screen will some times fill with a certain color when the 'camera' gets too close to a light source (occationally flashing yellow when i get going with my light saber but that actually almost looks cool some times....but its really annoying when the screen goes pure white for a few frames and you are just walking by some lights =/) Thought this might be a game glitch but my friend who has a similar system setup (except with a different graphics card) doesnt have this problem so i suspect it is related in some way to the same root issues (although i cant say for certain as i only just got Jedi Acad AFTER the format so i dont know if it would have acted up before this...)
I've went into the catalyst control panel and tried it at both extremes of the performance/quality slider and exact same results on both ends =/
So any way, i heard that older drivers some times are better.... and after googling i saw some forums which said 5.10 drivers and some say the later 4.x drivers are good.....but they are usually from forums from 2004 and such so since those suggestions would be a bit dated... any one have suggestions/ideas for fixing these problems or drivers i should change to?
Sys specs:
--Win XP + SP2 and all other updates
--Sound Blaster Audigy 2
--Radeon 9800 Pro (256 i believe?) with the 6.9 drivers
--2.08 Ghz AMD Athlon
--1.5 GB DDR Ram
Now the problem... occationally the graphics will go totally insane! It starts off with annoying 'blocky noise' (seen in this screen cap: http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1086/gtasagraphicbugrm1.jpg ) Shortly after, the polygons go totally nuts (imagine taking a point of an object now stretch it out really far...now do this all over the screen so you cant see a thing! Dont have a screen cap at the moment as i cant reliably re-create this and when i took the one before it some how fixed itself when i switched from photoshop back to the game....seems to be if i stay out of the game for a few minutes it goes away - for a while) At first i thought it was just a bug related to GTA:SA except it worked perfectly before the format and i got to the 3rd area and was doing the Caligula missions (which is near the end for those not familiar with the game) before i formated and no hint of any graphical issues.
Also i got similar 'blocky' artifacts in another game (America's Army)...although i ended up closing the game rather than face the 'polygons of doom' so i'm not totally sure if it would have had the same end-result... (being an online game, didnt really want to get mauled due to graphical errors)
And now tonight i was playing Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy and any time i have "dymanic glow" enabled the screen will some times fill with a certain color when the 'camera' gets too close to a light source (occationally flashing yellow when i get going with my light saber but that actually almost looks cool some times....but its really annoying when the screen goes pure white for a few frames and you are just walking by some lights =/) Thought this might be a game glitch but my friend who has a similar system setup (except with a different graphics card) doesnt have this problem so i suspect it is related in some way to the same root issues (although i cant say for certain as i only just got Jedi Acad AFTER the format so i dont know if it would have acted up before this...)
I've went into the catalyst control panel and tried it at both extremes of the performance/quality slider and exact same results on both ends =/
So any way, i heard that older drivers some times are better.... and after googling i saw some forums which said 5.10 drivers and some say the later 4.x drivers are good.....but they are usually from forums from 2004 and such so since those suggestions would be a bit dated... any one have suggestions/ideas for fixing these problems or drivers i should change to?
Sys specs:
--Win XP + SP2 and all other updates
--Sound Blaster Audigy 2
--Radeon 9800 Pro (256 i believe?) with the 6.9 drivers
--2.08 Ghz AMD Athlon
--1.5 GB DDR Ram
