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I recently recieved my Sapphire HD 4870 1gb card for my new build.
I thought I would just give it a try in my old pc. Specs:

motherboard: 775Dual-VSTA
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 3ghz.
2gb ram
gpu: ati radeon 4870 1gb.
PSU: 400W'

I installed all the drivers that came with the card, and launched Warhammer Online (which ran fine with my old 8600GT)
For my big surprise I met alot of wierd graphics in the game, which of course concerned me.
here is some pics of how it looked:

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7321/bugv.png
By alexanderzig92
http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4420/imgqda.png
By alexanderzig92

I hope anyone could tell me why this is happening!

Alenxader.

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Uninstall everything related to nvidia (ie drivers, control panels, etc) and reinstall the ati drivers

Reply to Bluescreendeath
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+1 seen that before with WAR, the top one at least. That was fixed with installing the newest catalyst drivers.

The bottom screenshot bothers me a bit though.

Reply to jennyh
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I'm gonna try uninstalling all Nvidia related software and reinstall ATi drivers as you said. Will write the result

Reply to zig92
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Can i ask you a question?

you using a 400W PSU? is that enough for 4870?

Reply to weind
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the 400W isn't enough, you need at least 550W, it's also a P4 so the PSU is probably crappy.

Reply to z999
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Might be the PSU that is too crappy. As I said I just wanted to give it a try on my old computer, I'm gonna get like 650W later.

Reply to zig92
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Your GPU is being bottlenecked. Get a better CPU and have a blast.

Reply to mamw93
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I'm getting a phenom II 940, but I just wanted to give the 4870 I try, but seems I need to wait till I get my cpu to feel the power of the 4870.

Reply to zig92

His problem is not a CPU bottleneck - it's a driver issue most likely...he is playing Warhammer Online, not Crysis on very high.

Reply to Bluescreendeath
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Hard to belive its driver related issue since I tried downloading the latest driver for the card on ATI's site, and it didn't solve it.

Reply to zig92

Try turning anti aliasing off and changing the graphical settings

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