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Ominus Decre
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Posted - 2005.12.14 21:15:00 -
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 Originally by: Dark Shikari
It sounds more like you did something wrong, or you have a bad card.
Could you give a little advice? After reading through my posts here what would you think I may have done wrong which would have casued this issue?
All help would be apprecitated. :)
The fan is operating at 56% at idle so I know it's working.
EVE looked astonishing and the explosions where breathtaking...until I docked at a station. Ten minutes tops till meltdown...
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Katrina Averus
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Posted - 2005.12.15 10:19:00 -
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Originally by: Ominus Decre
I loaded into EVE and played a few missions without any hitch. Upon docking at the station I was looking over various outfits for my Destroyer and after 5-10 minutes noticed things seemed like they were starting to have draw issues.
After I noticed the first glicth it progressivly became worse. Within about 20 seconds it went from one flicker ever 1-2 seconds upto a constant stream of flickering! Again, this ran awesome outside of the station.
Yes, it does seem like a heat issue, with artifacts slowly showing up and getting worse.
Personally, I'd reccomend RMAing that x850 if it's getting errors at boot now.
Also, EVE doesn't seem to like ATI R480 core (x850's) on full screen mode. It causes my video card to crash regularly, until I put it into windowed mode at which point it performs flawlessly.
I have a modded x800 GTO2 that runs at 580/600, and I do have to say Eve looks beautiful with Trueform, 6x AA and 16x AF.
I've had both nVidia and ATI cards, and tend to go for whatever is best value at the time, but from what I've been reading, nVidia has been slacking off a bit on Image Quality recently to get a few more frames, while ATI's image quality has always been top notch.
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.12.15 11:04:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 15/12/2005 11:05:06
Originally by: Teedo
ATI cards are notorious for having wonderful video card architecture, but crappy driver sets. You have to be careful in loading up drivers with them, and their uninstall can get ugly.
They haven't had bad driver sets for about 3 years. This is similar to the "AMD chips burn up" myth. Its based on very, very old information.
I'd suggest you RMA the card.
Originally by: Katrina Averus
Trueform
1. EVE does not support Truform.
2. The last card that supported Truform in hardware was the Radeon 8500.
3. So even if EVE did support Truform, you'd be running EVE at 1 or 2 FPS.
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VossKarr
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Posted - 2005.12.15 12:18:00 -
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Haven't had a problem with ati gfx drivers ever since 9700Pro.
Ati videocards tend to have better 2D and 3D IQ (image quality). At least that was the case when I compared the last Nvidia card I owned - a 4600 with an Ati card, and from what I hear on various forums - it still holds true.
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.12.15 13:58:00 -
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Originally by: VossKarr
Haven't had a problem with ati gfx drivers ever since 9700Pro.
Ati videocards tend to have better 2D and 3D IQ (image quality). At least that was the case when I compared the last Nvidia card I owned - a 4600 with an Ati card, and from what I hear on various forums - it still holds true.
2D image quality is based on what quality filters the manufacturer puts on the card, not on the manufacturer of the chipset.
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Reiisha
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Posted - 2005.12.15 14:04:00 -
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Originally by: Lord Aradon
ATM ATI have nVidia by the balls, the x1800 XT is the best card available atm, but i hear nVidia have a card up thier sleeves.
Either way my x1800 XT will serve me well, when i find the ú400 to get it 
The 7800 GTX is faster than the 1800 XT in most games. Just so you know.
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Lord Aradon
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Posted - 2005.12.15 14:19:00 -
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True but for the small performance difference i would rather save me ú200 and go ATi
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Flowerpot
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Posted - 2005.12.15 14:22:00 -
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Originally by: Asestorian
All that proves is that the P4 at that time had a system to slow the CPU in case that happened, where as the AMD one did not..
Do you work at intel or something ?
AMDs are way beyond the lower power users. They run at a lower mhz but achieve more per clockcycle and have an onboard memory controller to help speed things along. I suggest you read some of the current techno online mags.
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Brother Benthor
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Posted - 2005.12.16 10:04:00 -
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Edited by: Brother Benthor on 16/12/2005 10:04:58
OS: Win xpPRO (SP2)
Board: Asus P4T533C (rimms up to 2000mhz)
Processor: P4 2.4 @ 566mhz
Memoy: 4 x 256mb rimms @ 1066mhz (Kingstor)
HardDrive 1: 1x 120Gb HD (7.2rpm)
HardDrive 2: 1x 80Gb HD (7.2rpm)
Video Card: Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb (Saphire)
... i think i cant be mad at my lovely fitting, where playing HalfLife2 for example with full detail my FPS 25-35 fps @ 1024x768
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Dark Shikari
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Posted - 2005.12.16 11:07:00 -
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Originally by: Flowerpot
Originally by: Asestorian
All that proves is that the P4 at that time had a system to slow the CPU in case that happened, where as the AMD one did not..
Do you work at intel or something ?
AMDs are way beyond the lower power users. They run at a lower mhz but achieve more per clockcycle and have an onboard memory controller to help speed things along. I suggest you read some of the current techno online mags.
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about.
He's talking about a feature called CPU throttling, which slows down the processor if it overheats to prevent overheating.
Nowadays both AMD and Intel motherboards have this feature.
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Annie 46947
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Posted - 2005.12.16 18:44:00 -
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I pretty much agree that ATI and NVidia cards are compabable at this point. OpenGL games tend o run a little bettter on NVIdia and D3D runs better on ATI. Neither of the high end cards ever outperform the other by more than a few FPS and honestly... at 60 and 70 FPS, NOBODY can see a few FPS differance. I traditionally ran ATI till last year I bought a shiny new BFGTech 6800 GT. I'm happy with it, it runs well, I rarely have driver issues. Before that my ATI cards always did me well. The only reason I went NVidia this time was that I could pick up a 6800 at Frys where as the X800 PE was pretty impossible to find. Which leads me to my point.
Both companys cards are very comprable performance wise, but NVidia tends to have beter availablity. So 'd recommend NVidia solely based on " walk into a store and buy it"-ness.
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