9500np softmod checkerboard effect cure?

[King_of_qb]

is there a way to fix this? someone said better cooling and maybe more voltage to stabalize it

[Sovereignty]

If you're getting checkerboarding (I just made that a verb) it's because one or more of the pipelines you enabled is damaged. There's no way to fix it. That's the risk you take when you buy a 9500np and hope to mod it.

[King_of_qb]

some one said to disabling the Hierarchial-Z removed it for them how do i do that?

[Oc2theSkY]

If you use rage 3d tweak thing it has the setting to disable it. Check it out.

[King_of_qb]

i tried it it didn't work

i move the hardware acceleration down from full and now it does not have the checkerboard effect during regular use only in games, 3dmark, and etc.

[Soulburner]

Yeah the reason it was ever even dubbed to be a 9500 was because it failed as a 9700, there is a reason those pipelines don't work correctly.

[Geforce4ti4200]

how bad are the checkers? I heard one guy says he only gets them in 32 bit, in 16 bit gaming there not present. another guy was only getting it in some games and a third guys checkers were so faint he could just sit back and ignore em and game on!

"Triplex Millenium Silver geforce4 ti4200 64mb 3.3ns 310.5/661.5"

man you gotta teach me the v mods to get those insane clocks, I had the exact one that did 300/590 without mods but I sold it and got this abit siluro that does 290/600 might need to sell again and hope the next card ocs higher or mod mine or buy one already modded :D

[Soulburner]

Mine did 305/620 or so out of the box if I remember correctly.

Leadtek Ti4400.

[Kunaak]

a softmod is just a driver tweak right?

so if you go back to a normal driver, does the checkerboard go away?

or is it permanant?

[iceman2g]

Softmod is just a driver tweak, that is correct.
If you re-install drivers without tweaked file it should go away.