ATI X1800 and flag poles everywhere

[SultanOfSuede]

I have a new machine I built last fall. Core 2, 10K RPM drives, nice SB card and an ATI X1800 video card. I run 64-bit operating systems only as I see no point in running 32-bit when I don't have to. Everything works well. I have Vista 64-bit Ultimate up and running now and am enjoying it apart from the frequent crashes which occur during movie watching. My problem is this: whether with 64-bit WinXP Pro or Vista, every single game I own has this problem where 3D objects on screen have a giant pole sticking out of them. This makes games unplayable. Company of Heroes, LOTR: Battle for Middle Earth II, NWN2 and others all have this problem. I've the latest Catalyst drivers and I've tried running with everything turned down to lowest level, but still no luck.

Any thoughts on the big flag poles and what causes them? I use the same monitor for my Xbox 360 and everything looks great.

TIA,

Ian

 

[blade85]

have you got any screenshots??

 

[Melvin9000]

No this guys is exactly correct.


I have a Alienware 5750 and it has Ati 1800 in it.
17inch notebook with duo cor 1.66 1gb
Also im using xpmediacenter 32bit


So yeah im having the sae troubles with the poles or like stick figures.
except i dont see them unless im playin games. wen i watch movies or
anything else im fine.

Halo runs fine with no erros messages and very minimal poles just like
battlefeild 2. except battefield 2 doesent even show any. This lead me
to assume that only games with high demand did this. because playing unreal3
at first was fine but then the Poles start to come then i couldnt even get to '
main menu with the computer crashing

So i did reinstall xp just to din out the problem still exist also went to
Aliemware.com were they have the most updated drivers. downloaded
the recomended 1s advise by customer service and still no change.

So yeah idk what the problem is. the x1800 is a 256video card so there
shouldnt be any problems. Theres is 1 thing. everytme the error message
happens it always suggest the i check a cable???? idk what the problem is
Also i try tweaking the card it self in ATI Catalyst. still didnt get a result

But if som1 does im all ears