Whoa.. cool MOD! Which pin do I have to poke with a screw driver to get that effect 😀

On a more serious note, I have no idea 🙁 my monies would be on some memory being slightly defective? Does it happen to all textures? In which case maybe a more fundamental problem with some sort of processing going on there. I have no idea how the Voodoo organises it memory under the hood but that might give you an indication if its an isolated issue or not.

it happens to just about all of the textures, and even text as you can see in the picture.

It doesn't crash or freeze so I don't think its a heat issue (even more so since the cases are open)

if you are not getting weird polygons and shapes out of nowhere and its only not loading textures properly, its probably faulty memory. I had a Riva tnt with the same problems and it was solved replacing the memory chips (Not the same card, but still...).

Try with other display resolutions to see if the pattern changes.

Emu10k1 wrote:

if you are not getting weird polygons and shapes out of nowhere and its only not loading textures properly, its probably faulty memory. I had a Riva tnt with the same problems and it was solved replacing the memory chips (Not the same card, but still...).

Try with other display resolutions to see if the pattern changes.

different resolutions seem to make no impact from what Ive tried

Darkman wrote:

it happens to just about all of the textures, and even text as you can see in the picture.

It doesn't crash or freeze so I don't think its a heat issue (even more so since the cases are open)

Yes everything you see with dots/corrupted patterns in your screenshot is a texture (including the text). Does it develop over time or is there from the start? If over time, maybe a heat issue, but if it's there from the start its more likely a persistent issue with some memory. Bad chippy!

It certainly has all the hall marks of corrupted memory, although never seen it manifest itself in some sort of Saturday night fever tribute. 😀

spiroyster wrote:

Darkman wrote:

It certainly has all the hall marks of corrupted memory, although never seen it manifest itself in some sort of Saturday night fever tribute. 😀

I have 😀
Does this look like a faulty Voodoo2, or something else is going on?

konc wrote:

spiroyster wrote:

Darkman wrote:

It certainly has all the hall marks of corrupted memory, although never seen it manifest itself in some sort of Saturday night fever tribute. 😀

I have 😀
Does this look like a faulty Voodoo2, or something else is going on?

Cool 🤣
Reminds of this thread http://ompf2.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25.
From another forum.

I had texture thrashing like that. Turns out, it was a few bent pins on one of the texture mapping cpu chips that were touching each other. I used a sharp knife and separated them. Problem solved.

Texture thrashing != memory corruption

FFXIhealer wrote:

I had texture thrashing like that. Turns out, it was a few bent pins on one of the texture mapping cpu chips that were touching each other. I used a sharp knife and separated them. Problem solved.

That's the fix i usually come up with first with v1 and v2 as it is a common problem. But he states it worked fine before so assumed it was in a case all this time and could not get physically damaged.

But still worth a check: maybe some pins JUST didn't touch and now they do? When they do it creates the same problem and/or system lockups when trying to run 3D.

I had a look at every chip on the board, from what I can tell , the pins are not bent or broken.

Im starting to think it may well be faulty memory

Could be. It can also be a bad connection anywhere on the card.

Have you tried running a 3D game that doesn't utilize multitexturing and checking whether the texture corruption still persist?