Graphics Glitches on ATI x1400

**wondersforoyarsa** · October 11, 2006, 02:45 PM

I'm getting some strange artifacts on my inspiron laptop, with a RADEON x1400. The game plays as smooth as butter, at least on low resolutions, and looks great for a while. Yet, invariably, over time, I get some crazy artifacts popping up. Triangles shooting out to infinity, black boxes over the text, black textures over some soldiers, men blinking in and out, etc. Quitting and restarting a battle fixes it, and everything seems to look fine when starting out. But given enough time, weirdness invariably happens, even on shader1.

I've tried disabling CATALYST AI, but still report the weirdness. Any ideas?

**Animosity** · October 11, 2006, 03:22 PM

I have a 256 mb ATI X1400 on my Inspiron 9400
1 Gig at 667mhz
2.0 Ghz Dual Core
My monitor is the Ultrasharp TrueBright version, tho i dont think that would make a difference?

Its been running very good on my computer. I did have one single minor incident where the player controls/UI area went all white. So i exited the battle, restarted, and everything was fine again. Thats the only time anythings acted up, and i've played quite a bit. I think it was just a random demo crash.

Do you have shadows turned off? i do.

**wondersforoyarsa** · October 11, 2006, 03:56 PM

Iv'e got a duel core Inspiron E1705, with the ultrasharp as well. Perhaps my download was corrupted or something? Maybe I should reinstall?

**Candelarius** · October 11, 2006, 04:44 PM

I have an X1600 Pro, and, it looks great on my system, too. I have mine on Shader 2 and at this setting. Do you have the latest Catalyst drivers installed? And check all the "let the application decide" boxes, so the game can run it's own settings rather than using the Catalyst Control Panel settings.

**Animosity** · October 27, 2006, 05:44 PM

after some more playtime, i began to get this problem too..i changed my driver to the OMEGA radeon driver at www.omegadrivers.com
fixed everything. i recommend it