Pictures are "marred" when using Radeon 9000 Pro

[helz]

After re-installing windows, I needed to set up my hardware again. No big deal. Within a few hours, I was using my computer like normal.(I then re-set-up the chipset drivers to ensure that AGP texture acceleration was enabled). I do have, however, a significant problem. I noticed very soon that the cloud wallpaper on my desktop looked "marred", that is, colors blend into other colors in an irregular and un-natural fashion, which I never had before. Other pictures were the same. In 3d applications, some textures are blurry, lines look as if they were made out of legos, etc. I also noticed that many 3d effects looked hazy and the like. Does anyone have any information on what i'm talking about? Before the reinstallation everything looked crystal clear, there were no blurry lines or anything of that nature.

My Specifications are:
Radeon 9000 Pro(with latest drivers)
256 MB AGP aperture size(I tried setting it to 64MB, no effect)
128 MB internal Ram for video card

640 MB physical RAM
Windows ME
1.3Ghz Pentium 4

I am almost certain that the problem is in the display adapter. i've tried reinstalling windows again, to no effect. I've looked at the monitor, but all the drivers for it seem to be fine. I'm also using DirectX 9.0a(which I had before), so I doubt that Directx is the problem(especially since non-directx apps are also affected)

 

[paparazi]

Monitor refresh rate set too high? this can have weired visual effects like this. Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[helz]

I tired different settings for the adapter refresh rate, but they had no effect on the problem(my default was low to begin with compared with other refresh rate settings). The more I think about it, this problem may be related only to directx applications(although I doubt directx itself is the source of the problem since I reinstalled it many times and it is the same version I had before all these troubles started). The picture files themselves seem to be of decent quality but in a direct3d application lines are still fuzzy, there is blurred textures, etc.