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Voodoo 4 4500 Screen Tear

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First post, by MrEWhite

Posted on 2016-05-19, 22:27

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Oh boy, lotsa problems with this one.
First the fan (fixed with some oil) and now when ever I go into a low graphics mode scenario (DOS prompt, BIOS, etc.) and sometimes in high resolution games with a still image and moving (Outlaws) I get a TON of screen tear (horizontal lines on the screen) on my GA-6VTXE with a Pentium 3 @ 1.4 GHz. Is there a fix for this?

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Reply 1 of 3, by nforce4max

Posted on 2016-05-19, 23:28

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In this day and age this card is a bit "rare" given how few of them are left so take your time with it 😀 Does the card work in windows to where that it is stable and there are no odd glitches?

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 2 of 3, by MrEWhite

Posted on 2016-05-19, 23:38

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nforce4max wrote:
In this day and age this card is a bit "rare" given how few of them are left so take your time with it 😀 Does the card work in windows to where that it is stable and there are no odd glitches?

Yeah, the card works perfectly in Windows and Glide games (GLQuake and Quake 2 with AA)

Reply 3 of 3, by F2bnp

Posted on 2016-05-20, 01:44

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Nothing to worry about, your card is fine. This is caused by Write Combining I believe and I've witnessed it on many systems. It usually happens when running VGA modes, VESA is usually fine.

Sometimes there's a related BIOS setting you can use to make performance slower essentially and get rid of it. I don't know of any other workaround unfortunately 🙁.

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