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Getting artifacts in games but it's not my video card!!

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kypron7

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Hi, I have been having problems with minor artifacting in most games for a few months. The artifacts are always the same (seams showing, certain squares of texture on a wall flickering wildly, shadows flickering with polygons). I get these problems in: Assassins Creed, Medal of Honour Airborne, Crysis, Titans Quest, Condemned while certain games like CnC3 and Jade Empire exhibit no problems.

I posted about this in the videocard forum, never did get a response, but I just recently put an EVGA 8800 GT into my system to replace the Asus 8800 GT that was giving me problems, and all games behave EXACTLY the same, so it has to be another component. The steps I have taken:

1. Formatted and did clean install of windows xp pro, and have tried both official NVIDIA drivers and beta drivers. I always install and uninstall in safe mode and use Driver Sweeper afterwards. All drivers show exactly the same symptoms. (169.21 up to 174.74)

2. As stated above, Switched video card temporarily with exact same card by different manufacturer. No help

3. Ran newest memtest 86+ on all four sticks of ram separately. No errors.

4. Tried games with just 2 sticks of ram instead of four and used loose timings at 533 5-5-5-15. No help

5. Flashed asus P5b bios to newest 1803.

6. Cpu temp idle 42c load 55c. GPU temp idle 45c load 64c.

7. Power supply has ample power for job (Enermax 535 w) with video card on seperate rail by itself and only one dvd drive and one hard drive.

8. Absolutely nothing is overclocked!!!

I'm at the point that I am almost ready to buy a new cpu-mobo-ram config to solve this problem. If anyone can please suggest something I'm not thinking of testing, it would be really helplful.


 
in advanced display settings or the display utility for the card there might be 3d rendering quality settings. more sloppy = faster as always.
you aren't getting a response because your symptoms don't quite make sense. i doubt its the hardware, you are doing something wrong. things like memory and bios have nothing to do with such symptoms.
 
Under my nvidia control panel, I left everything on defaults, which has the image quality on "quality". I have been careful not to force things like anis or antialiasing in the control panel as well. I agree that it doesn't quite make sense that I am still getting these problems, I hope it isn't hardware as well.
 
Depends how major your problems are. Massive shearing and small artifacting are different. It could just be that the card is struggling to handle it at higher detail settings at higher resolutions.
 
Originally posted by: kypron7
1. Formatted and did clean install of windows xp pro, and have tried both official NVIDIA drivers and beta drivers. I always install and uninstall in safe mode and use Driver Sweeper afterwards. All drivers show exactly the same symptoms. (169.21 up to 174.74)
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Um... I'm sure it's just a mistype or something, but I'll ask you anyway:
You do not really run the driver cleaner after you install the driver, right?

Maybe you can get a screenshot uploaded somewhere so we get a better idea of the artifacts?
 
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