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Q. I have problems with flickering, tearing or polygons in the wrong place in 3D
applications. How can I fix it?
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If you have flickering or tearing problems with Quake 3 Arena, make sure you read the 'I get flickering
textures in Quake 3 Arena and Windows 9x/ME. How can I fix it?' and 'I get tearing on Quake 3 Arena,
whether I set VSYNC on or off. How can I fix this?' questions first.
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If you have any of these problems with Half-Life, make sure you read the 'I get problems with Half-Life.
How can I fix them?' question first.
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If you have flickering problems with Rogue Spear, make sure you read the 'I get flickering in Rogue
Spear. How can I fix it?' question first.
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If you have tearing problems, try turning up your refresh rate. See the 'How can I manually set refresh
rates and force the refresh rate above 60hz?' question for more details.
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If you have tearing problems, try forcing VSYNC off in the NVIDIA control panel.
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Try changing your AGP Aperture to another value (keep it above 16 as setting it at or below 16 will
disable AGP) - see the 'How can I change my AGP Aperture size?' question.
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The following tips were provided by Rich Carless:
If you have tearing problems with any OpenGL programs, go to the OpenGL tab of the NVIDIA control
panel and change the 'Buffer flipping mode' option from 'Auto-select' to 'Use block transfer'.
If you have polygons in the wrong place in Direct3D programs, go to the Direct3D tab of the NVIDIA
control panel and tick 'Enable alternate depth buffering technique'.
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Try upgrading your Video BIOS to the latest version. You might want to read the 'Where can I get the
latest NVIDIA Flash BIOS and which should I use?' question.
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Q. I have problems with flashing textures. How can I fix it?
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Try changing your AGP Aperture to another value (keep it above 16 as setting it at or below 16 will
disable AGP) - see the 'How can I change my AGP Aperture size?' question.
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If you have an option called 'PCI Delay Transaction' in your BIOS, try disabling it.
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Try installing the latest BIOS update for your motherboard. You can get help with finding out what BIOS
you need and instructions as to how to flash it at Wim's BIOS page.
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Try reducing the 'PCI Texture Memory Size' setting in the NVIDIA control panel to a lower level.
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If you have a VIA chipset, try disabling AGP4X in your BIOS or using registry files (see the 'How can I
enable AGP4X in the Detonator 5.16+ driver sets on my VIA 133mhz chipset motherboard?
' question). If
disabling it helps, then try reading the 'I have a VIA chipset based motherboard and I can't get AGP4X to
work without causing instability. How can I fix it?' question.
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Try connecting your CPU fan to another socket on the motherboard.
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Try reseating all of the components on your motherboard (including power leads and the GeForce).
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