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Thread ID: 61198 2005-08-28 01:41:00 my monitor starts to pixalate kwr72 (8796) Press F1
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384204 2005-08-28 01:41:00 :badpc:
I have a ast vision7u monitor, I know its a hunk o junk....however I have a hunk a junk ati radeon 7000 graphic card. I also have star wars galaxies on my system and when I first played the game in 2003 it was fine however know my monitor display starts to get distorted and you eventually cant see the image. the drag rate is horiable as well. My monitor will be fine then after a while it goes like this and it is getting worse. Then when I restart it everything is fine for awhile.

direct x says it is fine and ati graphic card says its fine ....i have reloaded all the drivers updated them all. ......so all in all it affects my star wars gamming LOL.

I have screen shots but I dont believe i can attach them

someone can ya help me???? THNX
kwr72 (8796)
384205 2005-08-28 07:47:00 Welcome to PressF1 :)

It may be possible that the newer ATI drivers are not compatible with your old game. Have you tried using a much older graphic card driver? Make sure you fully uninstall your current one first.

No other program or game is affected?
Jen (38)
384206 2005-08-28 20:21:00 :help: :badpc:
Hi there thnx for your response JEN, I tried a earlier version of the catylist and it seems to not work ..I have searched the web and there is nothing that ishelpping me.I reloaded all my drivers. I reloaded the ati catylist. I am not sure but it seems to go into a diferent rsolution like diferent colors redish sometimes and then I have to reset the computer. and it is fine once again.If there is a way to submit a jpeg screen shot I am sure peeps would know how to fix this problem. :dogeye:
kwr72 (8796)
384207 2005-08-28 20:56:00 yes it is affected else were just not in my game. :groan: kwr72 (8796)
384208 2005-08-28 21:26:00 Ok this is what I have currently installed..

i am not sure this will help but I am at trying anything..

1. My monitor is AST Vision 7u
2. I have a Plug and play monitor properties
Device type; Monitors
manufacturer; (standard monitor types)
location; on radeon 7000 series
status; thisdevice is working properly.
cont
Driver provider;Microsoft
driver date; 6/6/2001
driver version; 5.12001.0
digital signer; microsoft windows publisher

I have updated driver and nothing still having the same problems....unlessits my card...

ADAPTER
Radeon 7000 series
chip type; radeon 7000 (0x5159)
dac type; internal Dac (350mhz)
memory size: 64mb
adapter string: RADEON 7000 series
bios information; 113-HT000-100 RV100 SDR VO Bios
properties
device type;Display adapter
manufacturer;ATI
Loccation;PCI Slot 1 (PCI bus 0, device 9, function 0)
this device is working properly
DRIVER
Driver Provider;ATI
driver date; 8/25/2004 I installed the 4.9 catlyst
digital signer; microsoft

the current mode it is set at is 1024 by 768 true color (32 Bit) 85 hertz

I hope this helps some one I dont know were else to turn
kwr72 (8796)
384209 2005-08-28 22:28:00 cut the view mode to 16bit you'll hardly notice the difference but the vid card will be doin a LOT less work.......it MAY help drcspy (146)
384210 2005-08-28 22:51:00 Thnx I will try that...i apprecate the help :)
I would like to also mention that I ran some direct x tests and i do have direct x 9c and in the testing direct x 3d I passed them all in the first series then i ran it a second time and my display went bad again on #9 interface. So I rebooted it and then tried direct draw test andmy primary surface test in normal was ok
but when it got to off-screen surface in normal I did see everythingon the monitor however the screen was garbled on this test on more than one occasion.
but for now i will try the 16 bit ..these forums rock thnx :badpc:
kwr72 (8796)
384211 2005-08-28 22:57:00 also when its a 16 bit what is a good refresh rate kwr72 (8796)
384212 2005-08-29 03:37:00 i took out my graphic card and my monitor seems to be working well. I think its time to buy a new one.

I have a amd duron processor cpu speed is 1300mhz
with 512mb but i am updateing my comp with in one slot 512mb and in the 2nd 215mb eventually to 1024mb...

I was wondering if a geforce 6800 ultra graphic card would work with my system. would I have to upgrade more

any help would be good
kwr72 (8796)
384213 2005-08-29 04:03:00 a 6800 ultra?

Far to much for the rest of your system, the card would never even come close to reaching its full abilities.

If you want to spend that amount on a video card then you will need to have a system with comparable components to make it worthwhile.

Which in my mind would be 1GB of ram,a 3ghz cpu and matching motherboard
Metla (12)
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