Not sure, but I think this is an OpenGL problem…not sure. When playing basically any games, (Call of Duty, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, UT 2003 etc) I’m getting what can best be described as black dots or small black blocks up and down the screen. This only happens when starting to play a game. The main menu is fine, the desktop is fine etc. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro running Catalyst 4.2.
Started happening when I changed motherboards. I now have an Asus A7N8X-X board. When using my previous board, I had no problems. I have the latest NForce2 drivers, and am running XP SP1. I’ve tried syncing the refresh rates between Windows and the game, turning various features off and on like FSAA and anisotropic filtering etc. I’ve tried Catalyst 3.8, 3.10, and now 4.2.
Just not sure what KIND of problem this is. Is it DirectX (I have 9.0b), OpenGL, video drivers??? Have no clue.