Laptop Graphic Card Issue

Hi there,

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 6400 with T7200, 1gb DDR2, 80gb 7200rpm, and ATI 256 XL1400 graphics card. My problem is this: When I start up a game, ie. Silent Hunter III, and the beginning game opener movie appears very choppy and completely green in color. When the game finally opens, everything seems to work just fine. I have had no other issues with graphics during game play, just at the opening UbiSoft screen. I messed around with some graphic card settings, but nothing seemed to resolve this issue. Is this a big problem, or should i ignore it?

Thanks,
Marty

 

Check if you have the latest drivers. Try reinstalling the game. Has the problem happened in any other games? Maybe try googling the issue to see if anyone else has the problem. Also check what directx version the game wants to run on and make sure you have the latest installed.

 

Is this isolated to a single game? As long as your gaming performance is fine I wouldn't worry too much about it.

EDIT: Also install any patches for the game that you haven't already.

 

Thanks for the quick response guys! Gaming performance is not altered . I think it called for direct x 9, I cant imagine my brand new laptop not having that? But i can try that. It is an older game, so maybe all my patches havent been installed yet either. I will look into the advice stated above.

P.S. I love vBulletin!!!

 

It's a driver issue. ATi have screwed it up on some cards, and the Dell's is one of them. Try and older set. The catalyst based 6.9 Omegas work with video fine. And the SH3 intro works.

 

I had this same problem with my Nvidia Go7400 card, in alot of games everything in the intro had a green tint to it, in-game was fine. Just changing drivers solved it.

 

You can find a guide for updating your drivers here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=64910

 

Sorry for my ignorance, but I have a driver that does not appear on the ATI site. My X1400 driver is 6.14, the newest one on the site is a 6.12? How do i get the 6.14 driver back if the 6.12 does not work?

Thanks...

 

The 6.14's have not been officially released yet, so I don't know how you have them installed. Try using the Omega drivers if the regular Catalyst Mobility 6.12's do not work.

 

The 6.14 he is referring to may be Dell's labelling system.

And you get the original Dell GPU drivers off the Dell Driver CD supplied with your notebook.

 

That is the Dell driver. I tried to update my driver from the ATI website (vers. 6.12) and it gave me an error message stating i cannot install this driver and that i need to contact notebook manufacturer for updates. From what i understand, the dell drivers are not the best.

How are you supposed to update your driver if they wont let you, lol.

 

It's not SPECIFCALLY a driver issue.

It could be, but it could be alot of things.

I had an issue like this before.

When I first got my core 2 duo, my windows install corrupted and alot of my movies and videos would appear... choppy and green.

It's a video issue.

Either reinstall windows, or download windows media player 11. WMP11 sucks, but redownloading media player took care of my issue.

Try it, I'm pretty sure alot more videos/movies of yours appear in green.

The problem is, it may signal a very huge problem. It could be a video driver issue, or a media player issue.

The reality is your windows may have come installed corrupted. if I were you I'd reinstall.

I'm on fire today. /sarcasm :-\

 

Follow the instructions in Chaz's guide here.