My gfx card seems to hate third-person view games.

Whenever I am playing one, and I'm in a city type environ (walls around me) I have these graphical "spikes" that shoot from my character. Usually it's just annoying, but recently I bought Prince of Persia: Two Thrones and it makes it nearly unplayable...

I tried re-installing the newest Catalyst Driver from ATI but that didn't help.
BTW I have an ASUS ATI 9800xt

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ya try reinstalling DirectX?

ya try reinstalling DirectX?

Nope... I have the latest version.

:|

try running dxdiag and see if it tells you everything is OK with your DirectX installation.
I ahve not done gaming in a while, but back when I did every so often directX files would get hosed up and I would have to run the installer over again.

has it always done this?
There have been many times when the newest driver for my video card has caused problems, and I have had to revert to old drivers.
www.guru3d.com is a good place to get older, or even beta drivers for ati and nvidia graphics cards.
You dont have any overclocking apps runniong do you?
That can result in video corruption. So can fast-writes
look in your BIOS.. see if AGP FAST-WRITES are on or off.
Try toggling it. Especially if it is "on". I know fast-writes can cause display corruption.

Also, do you know what kind of motherboard you have?
Some motherboards chipsets have a driver set that gets updated from time to time.. Like the Via chipsets haave the hyperion drivers that need to be installed, and the Nvidia chipsets have the Nforce drivers.

oh, and another thing to try..
remove your video card driver, run this program:
http://www.drivercleaner.net/
to completely clean them out, then try reinstalling the driver.

thats all I can think of off hand. Lemme know how it goes.

when i had similar graphic anomolies it was due to the GFX card overheating... Are the Fans on the card spinning?? Could Also be a bad stick of ram.

Dr.