Artifacts in-game rendering game unplayable

[Arctic]

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Hello everyone, thank you in advance for helping me. My computer specs are:

P4 2.4Ghz
1 GB RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9600 128MB Video Card

I can run Battlefield 2 on medium, W40K: DoW on medium, and Guild Wars on medium/high. As soon as I boot up this game, I get severe artifacts, random polygons and color blotches on my screen. To make things worse, when I exit the game, I get residual artifacting and I must restart before my computer is restored to normal. I have DirectX 9.0c, applied the fixes recommended by the Firaxis website in order to get past the Renderer problem, and have the latest Catalyst Control Center and Display Drivers. Could anything else be the problem?

Thank you.

- Arctic

 

[chillin023]

I have the same card as you with the latest drivers and have the same problem. It's pretty bad and I have to quit and restart. But it's the constant crashes to desktop and system reboots that are killing me...

-- Mind you .. it's not all the time for me. There's usually something that will cause it (like the ingame movies when developing a Wonder, for example).

Chillin