Leopard - Screen Artifacts Issue on G5

[Thirteenva]

Anyone else having problems with screen artifacts (especially when scrolling in safari)?

I just installed on a DP 2ghz G5. I have the retail 9600 ATI Radeon 256mb.

I get screen artifacts constantly especially when scrolling in safari.

Really need to fix this as I'm a graphics professional and this is my work computer.

Thanks.

 

[lawgraphix]

Well for me i have the ACD 30" and Quad G5 with 7300GT video card. And i saw lots of blue artifacts on my screen. I went to the Video Resolution prefs, and changed from millions of colors to thousands. Then back to millions of colors.. and it seems to be fine now.

 

[Thirteenva]

Strangely enough, i can't switch it to thousands of colors...

Only millions appears in the drop down menu. Very odd.

 

[Thirteenva]

Seems the artifact only happens under where he mouse cursor is.

And it happens in all apps.

 

[Thirteenva]

I somewhat figured it out...

The Radeon 9600 Retail version does not work with Leopard apparently.

I swapped in the old OEM card that came with the computer (which only works 50% of the time for some reason on the DVI port) and when i got it to boot the artifacts were gone. So apparently its a driver issue.

 

[shinji]

Having the same problem on my Mac Pro with ATI Radeon X1900

others too http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5649430&#5649430