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On 6/30/2004 7:55 PM McGrandpa brightened our day with:
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> here we go again! I love it when this happens!
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>"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father....prepare to die! MY
>NAME IS...." !!
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>I just installed the Cat 4.4's today. With this new 9800 Pro, I started
>off with 4.5, then tried 4.6, and both give me the corrupted textures.
>More in OGL, but also in D3D! SO, someone recommended the 4.4's...so
>now off to try Far Cry (I finished it! FINALLY! Geez!) and Halo and
>Q3A and see wha's UP now
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Did you experience any heat problems when you first got your 9800 Pro?
It seems like all my temps have gone up 5-6C since installing this card.
I'm looking to get a Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer, they can be had for
$15. Actually I'm still trying to find out if heat is the problem or
perhaps something else... disabled FastWrites via the SMARTGart tab and
upped my AGP voltage to 1.6.
I was playing Halo yesterday for about an hour (at 1280x1024 w/ ~80 FPS
) and it locked up, also had it lock up after a couple of minutes in
Prince of Persia. No other funky stuff that usually comes with heat
(artifacts, funny lines etc...) so i reinstalled my sound drivers
(3dMark03 was giving me errors during the sound test, now its not), see
if maybe problem is unrelated to new card.
Have you played Max Payne 2 on your Radeon 9800 Pro? That's the game
that caused the problems to start. I would just barely get into the
game, beyond whatever cut scenes and it would crash to desktop. Then I
started getting the errors in 3DMark and the other two game crashes, I
had played DX:IW, before the MP2 problem, for like 2 hours without a
hitch (and that's a flaky game).
Grrr, getting all one's hardware to play nicely together is always a
bitch.
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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Inigo Montoya
Steve [Inglo]