I soft moded my ATI 9800SE and I am getting artifacts.

[Glenn]

So, I should try flashing the VID bios to the PRO without the hardmod?

you have samsung ram on it ?
Yes dont use hard mod your garenti vont cover it then.
if some of the 4 extra pipe line is broken you color vell be very vrong to look at then you just flash it back, and if you can't boot with your 9800se then you have to use a old pci grafik kart to boot from.

 

[Slayerstaps]

So, I should try flashing the VID bios to the PRO without the hardmod?

You need to do the hardmod first or else flashing won't do anything....
ur just stuck with what u paid for

 

[MadMax82]

You need to do the hardmod first or else flashing won't do anything....
ur just stuck with what u paid for

I would love to hardmod it but my problems is that I get artifacts with softmod, so before I hardmod it I want to be sure it will works, if it doesn't I would stuck with a 9800pro with artifacts.

 

[Slayerstaps]

Does it artifact like really bad??? show a screen or explain how bad the artifacting is...

 

[Frozen]

Listen up:

If it screws up and artifacts with the softmod and Rtool doesnt help, then youre stuck

No Flashing.

No hardmod.

No 8 pipes....

 

[MadMax82]

Does it artifact like really bad??? show a screen or explain how bad the artifacting is...

When i am playing NFSUG2 the artifacts are only in back window of the car but they are tiny.
When i try star wars battle front or UT04 i get moving black squares all over the screen.

 

[Slayerstaps]

Moving black squares is some heavy broken pipeline artifacting...nothing u can do about that..i think u just have to be happy with 4 pipes..

 

[Vasot]

Man these may sound a little cruel




but what happened to u is because you were asking for it

SOFTMOD = DANGEROUS Crap
If you damaged your card is your fault only, from the time that you decided to use softmod

 

[MadMax82]

Man these may sound a little cruel




but what happened to u is because you were asking for it

SOFTMOD = DANGEROUS Crap
If you damaged your card is your fault only, from the time that you decided to use softmod

My card works 120% with the original ATI drivers + ATI tool , that it is not the problem.

 

[MadMax82]

Moving black squares is some heavy broken pipeline artifacting...

Question. Why am I not getting the squares in NFSUD2, it has minimal artifacts.

 

[kRaZeD]

Listen up:

If it screws up and artifacts with the softmod and Rtool doesnt help, then youre stuck

No Flashing.

No hardmod.

No 8 pipes....

Why the hell dont people listen to things like what Frozen said???

FFS, as the saying goes: you get what u pay for!

You paid for a cheap video card, and you got a cheap video card.

 

[formalentity]

Question. Why am I not getting the squares in NFSUD2, it has minimal artifacts.

Perhaphs Heat Issue?, Or you've manage to damage something else?, Or maybe your Pipelines are partially damaged, if thats the case theres no solution..

 

[Glenn]

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/105
YES slayerstaps is rigt you got to hardmod there is a trik to remove
the silver from the cards pol 2-3 bot anyway i vell kep my 9800se ass it
is if I were you. I now rember My cart was a Sapphire 9800 I then mod to pro.
after the mod it ran from most 9800pro in OC.

 

[Nergal]

I got a 9500NP@PRO

At the start I always had artifacts, but only very few concentrated right below, so it didn't bother me. However, after some time, they dissapeared, so i was like: wtf?!?

Anyway, since I installed NFSUG2, they are back, in some games.
I suppose you can try clicking different options on/off in your display menu.

If nothing works, then try lowering your screenres.
If I play on 1280*1024, the artifacts are in the middle of my screen, if I use 1024*786, they are right bewlow, and on 800*600 they are gone!
Perhaps you can solve it by setting it on 1600*1024 or so?
because the artifacts will also get smaller.

I think it's best to do the softmod, because the speed you gain is amazing
from 2200to4500 3Dmark03 points!

gl

 

[dp69_2001]

mines weird. I never get artifacts in ATITool. Even clear up to where it freezes and I either have to restart or the drivers reset themselves.

 

[Twilight]

First thing you musk ask yourself is that artifacts your card produce are because of broken pipelines or because broken HyperZ system in unlocked pipelines.
If you got in Q3 something like that:

where you cas see under the walls, then it's only HyperZ problem But if it's something diffrent things like black chessboard in every game then it may be broken pipeline and nothing can help you but try things that I will talk about here later.

So if you have bad HyperZ try disabling Z-Mask in Rage3dTweaker in Direct3d Section. If it works then eneble it and decrease Z Compression to LOW because it works for my r9500@pro and has less inpact in performance that disabling Z-Mask.
If lowering Z-Compression works for you then you may want to do the same for OpenGL, and here RadLinker comes in handy. But it has one bug that I send do author and you must set Z-Compression to MEDIUM (at least on my softmod 4.11beta drivers )

And remember one thing: chessboard artifacts can't be obtained by overheating the card. OC cause random pixel artefacts or pisplaced triangles artefacts, and never chessboard in any instance.

Pozdrowienia z Polski 4U

ps. I don't think that r9800se is cheap card

 

[Slayerstaps]

Why the hell dont people listen to things like what Frozen said???

FFS, as the saying goes: you get what u pay for!

You paid for a cheap video card, and you got a cheap video card.

Nobody listens to Frozen and me around here cause they think they kno better themselfs..or the stuff can still be fixed eventhough we and more people are saying it can't be fixed...

I don kno how i can hold myself around here..I'm prolly gonna freak out sometime soon....

 

[kRaZeD]

Slayerstaps dont freak out man, as far as i know, ur a good contribution to these forums

 

[fr33ze]

Been on these forums a long time and the old forums as well and I think a lot of you are missing to the point, listen to people like Slayerstaps and Frozen, they know thier shit.

@ Glenn
I don't think you understand the concept of hardmodding, you need to flash the bios AND alter the contacts near the core. This WILL NOT sort out any problems with a card that is artifacting, if it does not work with a softmod 100% it will not work with a hardmod 100%, this has been said time and time again.

@ MadMax82
Sorry mate but you were unlucky, the card aint gonna work as a pro but it's still worth getting the better cooler and ram chips as you can overclock more.

You think every 9800 SE can be modded to 9800 Pro? Some of them have too bad Ram chips, or they are too slow or just bad quality. There are 3 Types: 9800 SE Lite, 9800 SE Standard and 9800 SE Enhanced - Lites can 100% not be modded to 9800 Pro, Standards can be modded with a 50% succes and enhanced have guarantee, that they can be modded.

where'd you get that rubbish from??

 

[bim27142]

When using softmod it will require to have additional cooling even if im not overclocking the card?

what softmod you refer to? i think if you softmod, the result will either be pipes unlocked or the card is OC'ed to somehwere higher speed ratings.... i don't think anybody would like to softmod their cards and getting lower clock speed instead?....

 

[wazzledoozle]

You think every 9800 SE can be modded to 9800 Pro? Some of them have too bad Ram chips, or they are too slow or just bad quality. There are 3 Types: 9800 SE Lite, 9800 SE Standard and 9800 SE Enhanced - Lites can 100% not be modded to 9800 Pro, Standards can be modded with a 50% succes and enhanced have guarantee, that they can be modded.

where'd you get that rubbish from??

Exactly what I thought.

Tsk Tsk

 

[kRaZeD]

i think there is too much bs in this thread, as such we should all ignore it from now on

 

[15th Warlock]

Please lock this thread

 

[wazzledoozle]

Please lock this thread

If I were to get mod powers I could

 

[fr33ze]

sure it won't be long before Frozen or Slayerstaps are back in here to lock it.