white speckles in doom?

[dan_kitty]

ive recently reformatted my system and used the latest driver for my radeon 9800xt, but get white snowy bits on screen when I play, apart from that it runs like a dream. Anyone know why?

[m2steven]

I get the speckles when my card is overclocked. It's either that, or you need to improve your cooling on the video chip.

[KamisoriX]

yep...usually happens when you overklocked it to much. if you keep itthat way your card is gonna die

[dan_kitty]

i see , thanks. i havent overclocked it, so I guess the fan must be not good, its quite a new card as well. Any suggestions as to how I can improve it?

thanks for your help

[Xpendable]

maybe there is a lot of Dust in your Fan, can remember that my ol' GF4ti, got almost stuck once, cause of the amount of dust in it

[dan_kitty]

good idea, ill check. Could be one of my mrs hairs trapped in the fan.

if it is there will be words spoken when she gets back from bingo tonight

[port66]

turn down the ram clock.... if it just greezes then thats the gpu

[KamisoriX]

another thing is that ATI cards got this stooooopid sticker on the fan that tends to fall of and block the fan.
And i know there was a flawed series of ATI 9800 card sets...dunno if it was the 9800XT thou.

[dan_kitty]

just like to say problem solved guys, thanks for all your help.

the power conector to the card wasnt in properly, meaning the fans wernt on at all


i guess ive been running it all this time with no cooling, never had a problem till now.. guess im lucky it hasnt been fried

cheers again

im off to doom it up see ya later

[Sepht]

Originally posted by dan_kitty@Aug 22 2004, 09:06 AM
ive recently reformatted my system and used the latest driver for my radeon 9800xt, but get white snowy bits on screen when I play, apart from that it runs like a dream. Anyone know why?

if u used the ATi(40% or Humus) tweak then you might see those, its also a slight glitch on some ATi Cards.