Hi
Just purchased a 9500 second-hand from a forum member and it appears to mod fine to a 9700. Playing games I've come across virtually no artifacting whatsoever. However in Windows, using Irfanview to view any jpeg that's larger than my screen resolution (16x12) that requires scrolling, I get the following dot pattern:
I don't just get it in Irfanview, other applications such as the Omega driver splash screen exhibit similar patterns but other apps such as xnview can display the large jpegs fine.
Now this isn't the usual chequerboard pattern that everyone talks about, and I'm wondering is this likely to be bad pipelines or maybe overheating due to the gpu running hotter when soft-modded? Dropping down to non-softmod drivers and the effect disappears.
Any ideas? It's a shame as I can put up with minor artifacting in games for the huge performance increase but not in Windows