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Library How toAs far as I know, and I work with ATI engineers in Austin, the HD5850 is a 256 bit video card. The tearing occurs only in FSX (of course) so raise your texture max to 2048 or 4096 you should see an improvement. ATI knows about it and all ATI show tearing in the VC...another trick is to leave the VC at full zoom 90% or better and you will see less tearing it just isn't very authentic
Ted
Guzler I don't know why the info page is reading 128 bit unless the card is defective. There never was a 128 bit HD5850, but as I said the tearing only occurs at less than 4096 texture max. ATI knows it but it was not worth the fix for just one game. They did try a software fix that made things worse-so I switched back to Nvidia but they have intermittent driver issues-however I have never had the tearing effect when using nHancer properly! ATI is a better card in many respects though such as color and clarity. However even that is subject to the eyes of the beholder! So enjoy your ATI HD5850, it is a great card
Ted
Hey Guzler are you using a notebook with the HD5850 mobility by Radeon that is 128 bit, however you may still use the 4096 texture max and get good results. ATI did make a mobility chip with 128 for onboard video
Hi Ted,
Am I reading the right thing then ?
Here is a review of the card and it states on it...
"Up To 128GB/sec of memory bandwidth"
http://hothardware.com/Articles/AMD-ATI-Radeon-HD-5850-Performance-Review/
I'm using a desktop PC Ted. apart from the slight tearing, I do like the card, it's limitations do show through differently than the NVidia cards I have been used to, but tweeking and fiddling is helping me to understand how to get the most out of it. The colours are very vibrant, although how much of that is the card and how much the monitor, I don't know.
Cheers
Neil
Are you refering to vSync related tearing? Are you saying you don't get that with nVidia? In Vista/Win7? And if not, that's because you are forcing via nHancer? Or does it just work.
ATI Tray Tools and D3DOverrider can force vSync as well in Vista/Win7. ATI Tray Tools does it via a game profile where you "enable" the Vista vSync workaround. D3DOverrider has the simular "vSync Workaround" for Vista. You get it with Rivatuner.
If you don't need a 3rd party tool to force vSync with nVidia in Win7 in FSX, I will swap out to an nVidia card right now. I love my 4870 but I spend all my free computer time in FSX these days.
PS - If you are forcing vSync with nHancer (just like ATI Tray Tools), what happens when you open ATC? I get a split second screen flash every time and it annoys the heck out of me.
Please advise.
Charles.
With nHancer loaded I do not have VSync tearing in the VCs of the aircraft either on my system or test systems we use at TechCorp. We use GTX260, GTX 275, and GTX 285 video cards for our testing. If we test ATI we use 256 bit interface cards only which cover the HD4850, Hd4870, HD5850 and HD5870 the 128 bit HD5750 was a big disappointment for gaming considering the costs. But every one of our ATI cards have some VC Vsync tearing and ATI has never fixed it for FSX or FS9.
Ted
What you are referring to is 128GB/s bandwidth speed not interface. All HD5850s except for ATI Radeon Mobility are 256bit interface
Ted
which drivers did you use and which os ?