----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy J. Anderson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] ATI Radeon VE 64MB DDR problems


> Still the same with DirectX 9.0. I'm still getting the same tearing
problem.
> BTW, when playing GTAIII for 5 hours straight, no crashes and/or messed up
graphics, so I would believe the hardware is probably not faulty.
> If the hardware was faulty, I would believe I would be unable to play
GTAIII
> for 5 hours straight(without crashing).
>
>

You should still hurting for what went wrong, that very likely to be on
software side.

But play a single game 5 hrs straight (or few games) can never proof there
is no hardware issue. eg. I used to have a GF-MX card before, it worked fine
(run 3Dmark, never crash, corruption, ... you name it) with some of my most
played games - include both OpenGL and DirectX based games, but it showed
problems (sometimes crash back to desktop, sometimes freez ...) with other
games like Jedi knights 2, Scrifise ... when I changed to another GF-MX card
(same brand, same mode, and as I check, even same revision, same bios), all
problems were gone.

PS: I used to play more than 5 hrs straight at weekend before.

Jun Qian

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