Simviation Forum - Ati 3870 issues

Jan 4^th, 2008 at 6:29pm

waspiflab Ex Member

Got the new Ati 3870 and games are looking like this.........

done all the new ati drivers etc etc....not over heating etc etc....just lots of graphic glitches??
any help would be great
thanks.
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Reply #1 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 6:31pm

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Have you tried tuning down the settings?

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Reply #2 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 6:32pm

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Makes no difference
my x1950 pro could max this game no worries

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Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2008 at 6:34pm

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I guess its a new card and the drivers are not quite right yet.

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Reply #4 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 11:57am

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is your power supply ample to run the card? as in does it meet the recomended ampage on the 12 volt rail?

try re-seating the card aswell, sometimes fixes random things

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Reply #5 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 4:48pm

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Got it sorted need a new motherboard the piece of crap they sold me supports x4 pci-e where it clearly states in the manual it's x16 pci-e
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Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2008 at 6:56pm

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woah woah woah

check your BIOS, i know a few people who just neeede a bios flash to sort their problems with performance!

check theASROCK site for a BIOS flash

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Reply #7 - Jan 6^th, 2008 at 6:19am

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This is the board http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=4CoreDual-SATA2&s=n (click on pciexpress symbol it clearly says x16.) got it because it supported dual core and agp cards.
sold agp card now and got an 3870pci-e card.
Been on loads of forums and they all say the same thing that the board only supports pci-e x4 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3...

Ran riva turner and it says my card is x16 but only x4 activated, nothing in bios at all to change it.
Is this trade discription??

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Reply #8 - Jan 7^th, 2008 at 4:32am

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Quote:

1 x PCI Express Graphics slot

thats what i got on the website you gave, clicking on the PCE-Express symbol just told me what PCI-Express is, nowhere on the page does it say it actualy supports x16 it just said that its up to 6 times quicker or whatever.

and under slots it does nto state at what speed

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- 4 x PCI slots
- 1 x PCI Express Graphics slot
- 1 x AGP 8X slot

all i can say is you should have done a little more research when buying.

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Reply #9 - Jan 7^th, 2008 at 11:07am

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sorted now thank god

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