problem with X850 pro

[Bubas]

When I am playing bf2 sometimes parts of the screen become black and I can´t see nothing...and seems to be some corruption in the textures.
Sometimes my screen becomes full of artifacts.

I allready updated the drivers and reeinstaled from scratch the game to no avail.

[Enormity]

Re: problem with X850 pro

hmm maybe your card is getting hott?

[mlkmnz]

Re: problem with X850 pro

Check your cooling on your card - make sure the fan is sitting on there properly, you may need to re-seat it. And what sort of power supply are you running....

[megawhompertoo]

Re: problem with X850 pro

yeah. it sounds like a heat problem. my x800xt AIW does the same thing--lines and wedges--if I play too long with it overclocked (515mhz core and 1040mhz mem). If I keep it at stock (500/1000), it stays cooler and doesn't artifact.

You actually need to take the card out of the socket once in a while and blast the whole thing out with compressed air if your card has the "air intakes" in the front. These intakes get clogged with everything that's in the air in your place, and because they are angled toward the MOBO, are almost impossible to get to without taking the whole gpu unit out.

Worse yet, the air intakes sit directly on top of your memory, interfering with the ability of the cooling system to dissipate the heat.

[Neat_Hedgehog]

Re: problem with X850 pro

First, a bunch of questions. How long have you have you had the card? What type of x850 pro do you have? Does it have the full slot cooler like the Connect3D model has, or just the little pancake one? Is it the AGP or PCI-E version?

Ok, now, other than that... Check to make sure that there's no dust, hair, etc... in your cooling fan. Also check how much air is coming out the back when you run it afterwards.

To help to be certain if it is a heat problem, you could download ATI Tool and use it to check out the temp of your card. If it's hot, you can try using ATI Tool to force the fan speed higher. 100% speed would probably be good to check it out.


edit: oh yeah, please reply back if something makes it work. I seem to have killed several tech related threads in the past few days just by posting in them. :laugh: