9600xt problems

I am currently having roblems with a sapphire 9600xt 256mb.
I constantly get jitters while playing GTAVC and choppy game play in GTA3

my specs are
p4 3.2 ht
sapphire 9600xt 256mb
abit is7
1 gb kingston val ram pc3200
36gb WD sata raptor
seagate barra 80gb IDE
WD caviar 40 gb
win XP

all fully patched, flashed updated

I have played with bois aparture settings
I have played with ATI cat settings
I have played with game settings
I get the same problem with all resolutions

the problem persists and is really bugging me

Thanks in advance for any advice

 

have you tried a different driver for your 9600xt?

 

Hi:
I have an ATI Radeon 9800XT (Cat 5.3/DirectX9.0c) and follow this routine when changing ATI's driver/ctrl panel software:
1. Start >Control Panel >Add or Remove Programs >ATI Control Panel >Remove.
2. Do not Restart when prompted.
3. ATI Display Driver >Remove.
4. Restart when prompted.
5. Upon return to Desktop in Windows Standard display drivers, cancel offer to install drivers.
6. Start >Run >browse to where you downloaded the new ATI Catalyst driver package and run it.

If the above doesn’t work out, download this util: ATI Catalyst uninstaller http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/misc/catalystutils.html
This will clean your system of any ATI software along with any remnants that could be causing problems.
Use it instead of steps 1, 2 and 3 above; then continue with steps 4, 5 and 6.

I don't know if the above applies to a Sapphire cards but I know that following this has avoided all glitchs with this card and the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro I used perviously.

Happy trails

 

Unfortunatly I have tried the uninstall and reinstall.
I have also tried the clean install approach.

The drivers i have used are
current release drivers from ati
Neo drivers

It seems to be some sort of memory problem, getting from main memory to gpu memory, problem is that i can not pin point the issue. the jitter seems to be random, .25 second in duration and I have tried a few other D3D apps and they have the same problems (directx 9.0c).

 

i have the 9600xt 128 and i had the same problem read this thread and hope it works for you. let us know http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=33617&page=1&pp=20

 

unfortunatly the soulution you suggest would have been solved with the third party drivers i installed as smartgart was not included in these versions.

Thanks Tho

I think i am going to put in my mx440 an see what happens.
I am also thinking of ditching the 9600xt on ebay and getting a 6600gt

 

I remember having problems with my 9800Pro and graphics glitches on GTA:VC and had to turn on VSync and manually change it in the ini file from 60Hz to something like 100Hz. I don't remember it running choppy, but there were tons of glitches... You might try hunting around in your ini file for something like that. When I have more time, I'll search around some more.