OK here is the deal every time i play Oblivion, or Halflife 2, after about 5 seconds of gameplay polygons start to bleed into each other. then after about five minutes it just looks like i am walking around in a buch of triangles?? It is almost as if the polygons bleed into each other. I have all the newest drivers, and no other apps. running, someone please help me solve this horibly annoying problem!!!!

 

Something is wrong with the card, sounds like overheating to me...

You ran any tests... and go check the temp on the Video card..

 

its at 60 degreese Celcious

 

stress test your video card... and report temp

 

I was having the same kind of problems running Titan Quest.

I tried everything and the one of the last three things fixed the issue:

Turned on ECC memory checking in BIOS (as I think a memory leak may have been the issue, hence it getting progressively worse)
Installed the lastest Logitech MX 5000 driver for wireless mouse and keyboard.
Updated the drivers for my 2 Samsung DVD-RW drives.

I did them all at the same time so I'm not sure which one fixed it. Before this, I had done the following.

* Installed lastest Catalyst 6.0 drivers (XP x64) for my ATI 1900XTX
* Updated BIOS
* Updated DirectX 9.0c
* Updated onboard Realtek sound and NIC drivers from ASUS
* Forced single processor mode
* Turned on and off V-Sync and all video settings in game and system

Basically, I tried everything- and being a computer tech for the last 15 years, it was a bunch. I knew overheating wasn't a problem nor was too small of a power supply- which many people may assume.

 

447 was my bench mark. and video card still at a coll 64..........
I updated all my drivers...... not sure how to do that ECC memory check, step by step??? If its to complicated its ok. thanks for the replys

 

whats up w/ these high end systems not being able to play games? my xps600 had lots of problems playing half life 2, fear and oblivion. lots of people i know with custom systems with top specs have been having the same problems. maybe its a software issue?

 

I had a meltdown on my 6600GT - the temp reading wasn't abnormal but the games played funny - I actually opened the case and the video card's fan was hanging by one wire and scorched. I got an X850XT PE and had problems at first but once I reloaded the Catalyst drivers everything is better than ever. I have heard that ATI's drivers are buggier than nVidia when I researched the issue.

 

So I did all of the above ( four hours later) and WOOW!! Thank you Acurazine! I have been posting on steam, and oblivian web sites for about a month! Thanks for always holding it down, much love guys!

 

Just get an Nvidia card. I love ATI but hate their Catalyst drivers

 

ATI has great hardware that is completely let down by their drivers. Though they seem to have fixed this somewhat recently.

 

I like ATI. Well I suggest two things, assuming the hardware is ok:

1. try latest ATI driver (Version 6.6)
2. try the Omega ATI driver (Version 6.5)

Just google Omega ATI driver, you will see the link.

I am using Omega ATI 6.5 right now, no problem at all, actually made some games smoother.

Good luck.