XFX 6800u Problem, seeing white dots

[Rapture]

I went to play halo with my XFX 6800 Ultra and started to see white dots on the screen, can anybody help? Thanks

[Lee H]

Are these dots only seen during Halo? If that is the case then it would be an issue with the game rather than the card ( just for your information, if you check the gaming forum and search for halo - I think everyone has said they thought it was a poor conversion from the xbox version and I tend to agree )

The best thing to do is download the following software and benchmark the system to see if theres any graphical hiccups ;

http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmark03/

I would suggest that you check your directx and install the latest as well as getting the new nvidia drivers from www.nvidia.com

Hope this information helps,

Best Regards

Lee

[Richdog]

Hmm is the card at stock speeds? White dots usually = core overheating or pushed too far.

[Rapture]

would scan of overclocked it before, when they was building my system? and if they did, can i put the clock speeds back to default.

This is the 3dmark score i got

3DMark Score 20236 3D marks



Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 254.7 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 80.5 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 376.9 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 195.7 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 240.8 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 107.5 FPS

Game 4 Nature 191.9 FPS



Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 3776.6 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 6617.6 MTexels/s



High Polygon Count (1 light) 139.7 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) 35.5 MTriangels/s



Environment Bump Mapping 214.6 FPS

DOT3 Bump Mapping 443.5 FPS



Vertex Shader 247.0 FPS

Pixel Shader 262.4 FPS

Advanced Pixel Shader 493.2 FPS



Point Sprite 33.8 MSprites/s

[Richdog]

We can tell nothing from that score without knowing what system you have, lol. But I believe the XFX does come factory overclocked. What speed is it running at? If you want help you have to provide more details.

[azrael1]

No I had an XFX ultra 6800 which i just sold for 460 on ebay.
There are no dots in Halo !

now what shall i do with the money ? i think ill get a GT! I wont even notice the difference, Just got to make sure i get a dual dVI XFX card !

[Rapture]

To beable to look at the clock speeds and the overclock features it says i have to do this "Enabling overclocking:
This step requires you to edit your registry. To enable overclocking
open <cd>others\overclock\overclock utility.reg
Now open Display properties. Choose the setting tab and click
advanced button. Now choose the GeForce tab and click the additional
properties button. Select the Clock frequencies tab of the Additional
GeForce Properties Window. The rest should be self-explanatory."

but i dont understand how to edit the registry

[Richdog]

Im going to send you the link to a file, download the file from the link and then double-click on it when its downloaded. It will ask you if you want to add entries to the registry. Click Yes. You will then be able to overclock and see your clock speeds.

And list the rest of your system.

[Rapture]

ahh it wotked thnx for the help richard

[Eric.Woot]

think you could tell me that link, i have the same problem
would be greatly appreciated

[autopilot]

I think Richdog was refering to Coolbits, a reg hack that will allow you to access and change the mem/core frequencies in the Nvidia properties panel. Do a google for 'Coolbits'.

BTW, i would have said the orginal problem was more of a PSU/power issue if he had not done any overclocking himself. I had the same with my 9800pro, until i upgraded my PSU. But seeing as he last posted in Sep 2004, i guess he got it sorted!