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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45780

GamingGroove (they are online again!) have posted
an article entitled "Doom is Hell (with a Radeon Card) detailing the "snow" artifacting some have encountered when running Doom 3 on certain ATI video cards. Here is an excerpt:

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Bert · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

I own an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, a 2.6 GHz P4, 512 MB of RAM with
nothing overclocked. I have Doom3 set to HIGH QUALITY at 1024x768
with no anti-aliasing. Didn't notice much difference. Anyway, dispite
a few chugs when doors open and a occasional artifacts, the game runs very smooth. I haven't compared it with a Nvidia equivalent but I'm pretty much satisfied how the game runs on my system.

lucas · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:54 am Post subject:

hahaha... hell's freezing over

xxxx · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

haahha, i dont have this problem either.. wow miracles happen

FX5900 · Junior Member Joined: 07 Jun 2004 Posts: 216

Interesting, i get occassional artifacts with the ATI X800 Pro.... but no such glitches with my trusty nVidia FX5900. But no surprises there.

FX5950 · Contributor Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 28

Interesting, i get no artifacts with the ATI 9800.... and no such glitches with my trusty nVidia FX5950. But no surprises there.

tcl75 · Guest

I found the same problem as described when using the
ATI Radeon Catalyst 4.7 drivers for a Radeon 9800Pro (128Mb).

Installing the ATI Radeon Catalyst 4.9b reduced the snowflake effect a little but in some scenes it was still visible.

As a final attempt to get rid of it I installed the ATI Omega drivers 2558_7
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win9x_me.php
This solved the problem entirely and also increased the speed the game was running.

xxxx · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 3:59 pm Post subject:

maybe the person playing has really bad dandruff and their in some kind of denial.. i mean you can see the dandruff gathering at the bottom of the screen.

or maybe... nah..

Sabot · Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

Probably plugged his monitor into his outside ariel , bad reception where he's from Laughing