ugh... flashes on the screen while playing SL

My radeon 9000 is starting to hate SL again, albeit with a different problem.

When I play, unless the frame rate is something atrociously low (5-10 fps), my screen constantly "tears" and flashes random polygons all over the place. They're only there for a millisecond, but they flash all over, and in different colors. this is with ATI drivers 3.9 and now with the latest ones (4.3 I believe)

Does anyone else have this problem? It's completely distracting to me being able to watch SL for more than a few minutes before having to log off again.

LF

when i had this problem on a machine with an nvidia card, the probelm turned out to be faulty system ram. once it was upgraded (replaced), the probelm when away.

Ugh, I really don't want to replace 512 MB of DDR ram right now.

SL is the only program that does it... I'd like to think it's a SL bug and not faulty ram.

LF

Yeah, that's the problem with SL -- it does so much stuff that most other applications don't, it's hard to tell if the problem is specifically SL, or if it's something that your other software just DOESN'T DO.

Did you consider rolling back your drivers? That might help.

I had that problem for a while...

Turned out to be overheating... the GPU fan (GeForce 4Ti 4600) was not running to speed.

I took it out, applied high-pressure air to remove dust, then liberal quantities of WD40, left it overnight to evapourate, and put it back in...

and Voila! Problem solved!

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I use a Thermaltake XaserV case, and it works pretty well, I think.

The case is specifically designed for air flow with lots of high-end gaming hardware in the machine. The case itself comes with 5 fans, all intake fans have washable filters. The power supply I put in has two additional fans.

So, I'm running 7 case fans, all intake fans being filtered, and I use the variable-speed fan settings on the exhaust fans to keep the case over-pressurized, so it doesn't suck in excess dust through the "cracks."

Oh, with the CPU and GPU fans, the case has a total of 9 fans in it circulating air.

Working pretty well so far. I'm too paranoid about my computer equipment to deliberately run water through it.

Liquid cooling is great...I been running that way for almost two years now. I use Ford Orange high mileage for my system coolant run thru custom machined blocks.

no hijack though..I think Lordfly's issue is gonna be driver related. I had similar issues once in a different title and rolling back the driver fixed it, and then at the next revision I was good to go again...

bad vertex values are GENERALLY the fault of the GPU over-heating and corrupting the processed coordinates.

Does it happen immediately lordfly? or does it play fine for a little while, and then start doing it?

I think your installation is buggy and it's allowing you to see a little bit of the subliminal conditioning patterns that SecondLife generates to keep its members in thrall.

You're just one of the lucky ones, Lordfly!


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