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flawmatt
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Ok. Before you all say something like 'Checkboards indicate damged pipelines' or 'You cant fix checkboards' let me just say I already know that. On my 256bit 9800se modded to 9800 and oc 400/350, all games are checkboard free with any degree of AF applied and no FSAA. It is when I turn on FSAA that the screen becomes checkboarded. I doubt it is because of the extra throughput that FSAA requires because it also happens in ancient games such as the original UT and Thief, neither of which could be considered hardware intensive.
This is strange as I have heard of people forcing AA and it removes checkboards. That FSAA doesnt work is no big deal as the card was bought for Doom 3 and Hl2 anyway, but I am curious as to why it could be happening.
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Sweeper
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I have seen on some Radeon 9800SE's which driverrs you use also decides the problem.
In your case, it smells drivers all the way to me, but I could be wrong, I suggest starting to clean out drivers and try other methods on the softmod and see if you get different results.
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flawmatt
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Tried Omega 4.4 and 3.10 and still the same results. Downloading 3.7 and will try them. Used drivercleaner but to no effect. Diabling hyper z and fast z clear makes no difference the checkboard is still there.
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p4 2.6c @ 3.3 (13x 254)
ASUS P4P800
Radeon 9800se 8x1 @ 400/700
2x 160gb Western Digital SATA
2x 256mb Corsair pc3200
R.I.P Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum
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Ben_SW
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This might seem like a stupid question but when you installed the omega drivers you did install the 9800SE -> 9800NP\Pro drivers i assume, if not that would be the problem otherwise I wouldnt have a clue whats wrong.
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Sweeper
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Well have you tried RivaTuner route? www.guru3d.com then click on Riva Tuner, it includes a patch script and I can PERSONALLY confirm that it worked for me.
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EPoX 8RDA+, My baby.
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 TwinMOS PC 3200 (2x 256Mb) DDR @ 400Mhz Dual channel. CAS:
Creative 3D blaster 4 Titanium 4600 @ Quadro4
4gb Western Digital
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80 GB Western Digital (My trusted brand)
Nvidia SoundStorm
3D Mark 2001 SE: 12243 3D Marks
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Sweeper
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Hmmm I am not sure at the driver number that I used... It was the latest at that time...
Let me see if I can find the article where I did this mod.
Here it is:
http://www.uberhardware.net/index.php?page=documents&type=articles&id=20
Have a look through that, I think I got the driver file lying around. 3.10 cats I think I used.
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EPoX 8RDA+, My baby.
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512 TwinMOS PC 3200 (2x 256Mb) DDR @ 400Mhz Dual channel. CAS:
Creative 3D blaster 4 Titanium 4600 @ Quadro4
4gb Western Digital
20 GB IBM
80 GB Western Digital (My trusted brand)
Nvidia SoundStorm
3D Mark 2001 SE: 12243 3D Marks
OCAU database entry:
http://pcdb.overclockers.com.au/view.php?name=Sweeper
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flawmatt
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Downloading the 4.5 omegas and hopefully they work. in the meantime i will try the drivers that came with the card (3.7s i think) along with the riva tuner patch.
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p4 2.6c @ 3.3 (13x 254)
ASUS P4P800
Radeon 9800se 8x1 @ 400/700
2x 160gb Western Digital SATA
2x 256mb Corsair pc3200
R.I.P Sound Blaster Audigy ZS Platinum
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