Problem w/ ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition (256MB) 4xAGP on G4 MDD DP1.0GHz

As mentioned in this topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1443169&tstart=0

I am having problems, seemingly with rendering in OpenGL, Quake4 is just one example, and a bunch of other games, as well as Toast Titanium 8.0-8.0.3, MOST OF THE TIME (not always, and can't find a pattern to the exceptions), I am having a grid of Black-Pixel Clusters on my screen in the games, or white pixel clusters in the Toast burn-progress window (just the area where the writing scrolls across and says "filling buffer" etc). I have downloaded and run all things available from the ATI website, even one thing that isn't available anymore for download. Does anyone else know anything about this? Also, this is the 4x/8x card, and if anyone has any info about this card in a G5 I would love to hear it, b/c I am thinking of moving this card to a G5 DP1.8GHz (June 2004) b/c that terminal has more demanding usage (and just switch back to my stock ATI card in my G4). I am extremely grateful to anyone who even ventures a reply.

once again, I am running:
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition (256MB) 4xAGP on G4 MDD DP1.0GHz with 10.4.11 768mb ram.

G5 DP1.8, G4MDD DP1.0, 12"PBG4 1.5, 17"PBG4 1.67, 17"MBPCD 2.16, G4AGP X00, Mac OS X (10.5.2), The G5 and 12" PowerBook are running 10.5.2, the others run 10.4.11, the 12" PB

Posted on Mar 18, 2008 11:23 PM

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May 28, 2008 4:27 PM in response to 1984-I_Was_1

I'm pretty sure mine was one of the unaffected models as i have the machine bought out around the same time as the G5, so i have the MDD 2003 (single 1.25 GHz) model, i'm pretty sure the ones affected were the previous dual 876 ones ect. . it's not that loud to be fair, but not super quiet, i don't sit here thinking bloody ****, it's just a gentle whir in the background. and i have the thin finned aluminium heatsink.
I am however thinking of swapping out the CPU for a Dual version
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1537928&tstart=0

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