extream artifacting and crash during cryostasis

[TanisHalfElven]

hi guys.
i was playing cryostasis, and there were so many artifact that initially i thought it was part of the game. after about 10 minutes i figured it out and a few minutes later my computer shut down.

is this a bad card, or is something else wrong ?
thanks.

 

[masteryoda34]

Card overclocked?

 

[Modular]

Sounds like a bad card or a driver problem. Are you overclocking as Yoda asked? Are you experiencing any problems in any other games or just this demo?

FarCry 2 has some seriously messed up trees when you apply AA with some ATI cards. It's not the card's fault, it's the drivers and developers. I would think that in this title, seeing as how it's developed around nVidia tech and touting PhysX, that ATI is going to have some issues to work out.

 

[masteryoda34]

Yeah, try other games to see if they work. Otherwise, download FurMark and run the stress test.

 

[SickBeast]

I don't know how yous can say that this is a hardware problem when Windows 7 is still a beta. My guess is that the OP has found a bug.

I agree that it does sound like it could be the card overheating, but I wouldn't say it so definitively considering the OS.