Red stars like noise? That's the kind of thing you see when the video ram is OC'd or
overheating AFAIK.
I'd be running 3dmark or similar to see if it can be reproduced outside of that game
by taxing the hardware to the max. If no issue the I guess you're looking at a
compatibility issue thus needing a dual-boot to XP or linux + CodeWeaver's gamer distro.
On 1/23/2010 10:17 AM, Winterlight wrote:
I picked up Bioshock last month on one of those games for 5 dollars
deals. I installed it in Win 7 64 bit and started playing it but after a
while it just didn't feel that smooth. My hardware is a Q9650 with 8 GB
of RAM, Velociraptor, and two 4970s in Win 7 PRO ... but not running
crossfire. I didn't need crossfire as I could run at 2560 X 1600 on my
30 inch monitor and it installed with all ,maxed on the graphics.
I thought maybe it is a compatibility issue. So I booted (dual boot)
into my previous Vista 64 which I had stripped down to basics... no av,
no firewall, no nothing running, and this time crossfire enabled. This
did feel better but eventually, as I progressed through the game I
started getting video artifacts = red stars appearing during game play,
in large numbers, and then locks, and crashes and a inability to
remember my keyboard settings.
I tried the latest ATI drivers, a reinstall of the game (there is no
patch), and then tried booting back to win7 to see if I experienced the
same thing.. and I did. So is this just a XP32 sort of game or is there
something I can do to continue?
thanks
W
