Help Please - Using ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

talamas · Jun 22, 2005, 02:56 AM

Hello guys! I am glad I found ths website and hope that you can fix my problem

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I am running a laptop atm. 1600 mhz
510 ram
ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 (32 mb)

Basically, whenever I play Everquest once ina while the graphics screw up and the screen flickers. I can see through walls / floors etc.

I then got Sims2 and now the same thing happens here. When I am in the game, it flickers and the ground has black spots in the geometry etc.

The strange thing is this graphics bug goes away in both Sims2 and Everquest when I unplug the power cable. I believe this has to do with the fact that when I remove the power cable my laptop automatically goes in a phase where it lowers brightness etc. to save battery life.

I am wondering what the hell is going on so I can fix this bug and not have to worryabout unplugging cable etc.

Another thing: This never hapened until i got an automatic driver download. Rolling back to older driver did not help either.

Appreciate the help!

Thanks!

swimtech · Jun 24, 2005, 04:09 AM

Many laptops also throttle back the processor when you put them onto battery power - you might want to check your power setting schemes...

Must admit, never heard of this problem before, but it does sound heat related.

Are you using the latest driver from the manufacturer or a modded (as Omegadrives are...) driverset? And the rollback might not have been thorough...

Aligokalppeker · Jun 24, 2005, 08:37 AM

What do you use as driver version?and what is the driver name of AGP gart ?Problem can be with AGP gart ,download latest version of your GART driver.Download a program that show your processors and other parts temperature.You can find it in your laptop provider,if there is.As swimtech noticed it can be a heat problem.

talamas · Jun 24, 2005, 07:20 PM

Thanks for the help so far! I am hearing from others that it may be a heat problem as well. I forgot to add that the first thing it has done lately was it crashed while playing EQ. I got a huge blue screen with alot of writing saying something about my graphics card and then the computer restarted.

Problem has gotten a lot worse now. I was given a suggestion of using an omega driver so I tried that and loaded up EQ. I still had the same problems as before but this time when it crashed and reloaded, instead of getting the normal reboot screen It came up as static like on a TV only with a bunch of different colors. IT has done this once before in the past week when EQ crashed but normally I would just restart it again and it would be just fine. Now I can't even get it to start up without the static

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Are you using the latest driver from the manufacturer or a modded (as Omegadrives are...) driverset? And the rollback might not have been thorough...

I have tried it with the latest driver from the manufacturer, an omega driver, and a rollback driver (unless it wasn't thorough, i wouldn't know how to check except DXDiag showed me the earlier driver). I have the problem with all 3 so I don't think it's a driver problem.

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What do you use as driver version?and what is the driver name of AGP gart ?Problem can be with AGP gart ,download latest version of your GART driver.Download a program that show your processors and other parts temperature.You can find it in your laptop provider,if there is.As swimtech noticed it can be a heat problem.

I never knew you could download a program that tells temperature, I will have to do that. My laptop does get real hot on the bottom near the fan and I usually lift it up and blow a fan on it to cool it down. In fact the first night EQ crashed on me in over 3 months it was pretty hot.

If i can get my laptop loaded up again i'll check those out.

Thanks!!

Aligokalppeker · Jun 26, 2005, 08:40 PM

Did you tweak your windows?If you did, i've an important note i've read before....Enabling a tweak related to Page Allocation Table causes windows to crash on higher RAM usage and/or AGP(Graphic) ram usage,this may solves your problem.If not it's more possible that your problem is related with heat

yozick · Jun 26, 2005, 10:35 PM

Hey i play everquest also I tend to see that problem(see thru walls) with desktops also. Most ppl just say to restart and it seems to fix the problem.

I had the problem alot before but have not had it happen in awhile. Clean out all old drivers, install fresh drivers. And in EQ setting you really need to lower all quality settingws as much as you can. On my 64meg 9000 i would only load the model for the toons i played. And used low settings on everything esle.

Also in adv display options (alt-o) display, ( and you may have to strech the bottom of the option window to see the adv section ) turn off everything to the left, and drag the shadow slider to the left. You may want to tweak the reg display options too turn off skies, turn LOD( i forget the name) to the low setting and drop the FPS slider to between 19-30 esp since its not fps dependant.

I hope this helps you out some.

swimtech · Jun 27, 2005, 06:42 PM

Did some searching here (remembered this heat monitoring topic had come up before for laptops...) and found this thread where you might find software to monitor your temps with:

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...op+temperature

Depends on what make and model laptop you have as to what program might work, but there are several links within the posts...

The graphics chip in my laptop below runs at 49 C during normal use...

Jun 22, 2005, 02:56 AM	#1
talamas DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Help Please - Using ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 Hello guys! I am glad I found ths website and hope that you can fix my problem . I am running a laptop atm. 1600 mhz 510 ram ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000 (32 mb) Basically, whenever I play Everquest once ina while the graphics screw up and the screen flickers. I can see through walls / floors etc. I then got Sims2 and now the same thing happens here. When I am in the game, it flickers and the ground has black spots in the geometry etc. The strange thing is this graphics bug goes away in both Sims2 and Everquest when I unplug the power cable. I believe this has to do with the fact that when I remove the power cable my laptop automatically goes in a phase where it lowers brightness etc. to save battery life. I am wondering what the hell is going on so I can fix this bug and not have to worryabout unplugging cable etc. Another thing: This never hapened until i got an automatic driver download. Rolling back to older driver did not help either. Appreciate the help! Thanks!

Jun 24, 2005, 04:09 AM	#2
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Many laptops also throttle back the processor when you put them onto battery power - you might want to check your power setting schemes... Must admit, never heard of this problem before, but it does sound heat related. Are you using the latest driver from the manufacturer or a modded (as Omegadrives are...) driverset? And the rollback might not have been thorough... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jun 27, 2005, 06:42 PM	#7
swimtech HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 4,040 Rep Power: 124 System Specs	Did some searching here (remembered this heat monitoring topic had come up before for laptops...) and found this thread where you might find software to monitor your temps with: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...op+temperature Depends on what make and model laptop you have as to what program might work, but there are several links within the posts... The graphics chip in my laptop below runs at 49 C during normal use... __________________ It's not so much getting your way that matters or not - what matters is how you go about getting it.

Jun 24, 2005, 08:37 AM	#3
Aligokalppeker DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: TR Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	What do you use as driver version?and what is the driver name of AGP gart ?Problem can be with AGP gart ,download latest version of your GART driver.Download a program that show your processors and other parts temperature.You can find it in your laptop provider,if there is.As swimtech noticed it can be a heat problem.

Jun 26, 2005, 08:40 PM	#5
Aligokalppeker DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: TR Posts: 184 Rep Power: 0	Did you tweak your windows?If you did, i've an important note i've read before....Enabling a tweak related to Page Allocation Table causes windows to crash on higher RAM usage and/or AGP(Graphic) ram usage,this may solves your problem.If not it's more possible that your problem is related with heat

Jun 26, 2005, 10:35 PM	#6
yozick DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	Hey i play everquest also I tend to see that problem(see thru walls) with desktops also. Most ppl just say to restart and it seems to fix the problem. I had the problem alot before but have not had it happen in awhile. Clean out all old drivers, install fresh drivers. And in EQ setting you really need to lower all quality settingws as much as you can. On my 64meg 9000 i would only load the model for the toons i played. And used low settings on everything esle. Also in adv display options (alt-o) display, ( and you may have to strech the bottom of the option window to see the adv section ) turn off everything to the left, and drag the shadow slider to the left. You may want to tweak the reg display options too turn off skies, turn LOD( i forget the name) to the low setting and drop the FPS slider to between 19-30 esp since its not fps dependant. I hope this helps you out some.