Know what artifacting is, but never seen it before

[zijin_cheng]

So I've been using my 7850 for about 4 months now, I OC'ed it to 1200/5000 from 860/4840 and used it to play BF3 a few times maxed on 1920x1080, tested heaven sooo many times, no artifacting, at all, so I thought it was stable.

Then I realized I hated BF3 (please no flaming ) and moved on to sleeping dogs, which does 60fps maxed on stock, so I returned it to stock.

Then when I was driving ingame, my whole screen went white for 3-4 seconds, and I don't know if it was a glitch or artifacting. This happening after logging maybe 20 hours in the game, and this white screen fiasco has only happened once so far.

Could anybody provide some insight?

 

[hokies83]

sleeping dogs kinda looks like Grand theft auto to me...

Is it the same game play? this has been the reason i have not got it yet... I HATE GTA WITH A PASSION..

 

[tweakboy]

If whole screen turns white that is really not called artifacting.

Artifacts are caused by botched VRAM on the card, getting to hot or OCed to much.

Try video card on another computer see if it happens. This could be the LED monitor but its very unusual so who knows. You know that LED is most probably 7ms if not more.

ghosting and laggy FPS mouse, Alll LEDs are 5ms to 12ms and the 5ms is a tv worth 2k.... not instant mouse........in FPS and what not.

 

[zijin_cheng]

sleeping dogs kinda looks like Grand theft auto to me...

Is it the same game play? this has been the reason i have not got it yet... I HATE GTA WITH A PASSION..

Bro I hear you. I tried GTA4 when it first came out and I hated it soo bad. Then I tried Saint's Row 3 and hated it so much too.

Then I tried Sleeping Dogs and was instantly hooked. Why? Batman style fighting (with way more kungfu), awesome driving (not as realistic as GTA4, but way more fun) and an actual good story, not the "I'm a poor immigrant in America with $234024208 in my pocket".

Or it could be just that I'm asian and I can understand what they're saying and stuff, so take with a grain of salt.

If whole screen turns white that is really not called artifacting.

Artifacts are caused by botched VRAM on the card, getting to hot or OCed to much.

Try video card on another computer see if it happens. This could be the LED monitor but its very unusual so who knows. You know that LED is most probably 7ms if not more.

ghosting and laggy FPS mouse, Alll LEDs are 5ms to 12ms and the 5ms is a tv worth 2k.... not instant mouse........in FPS and what not.

Yea, I was afraid because my card temps hit 90C, and I don't have VRM heatsinks.

I've never seen artifacting before, so I was wondering if it was possible to have "full screen" artifacting.

I don't have another computer to try it in, and my LED is 5ms (black to white) whatever that means. I've seen ghosting before and this is definitely not ghosting, I also always play with FRAPS on, and my framerates hovered between 58-64fps during that time.

 

[Goresplattered]

sounds more like a sort of crash/recovery than an artifacting scenario....


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[fffblackmage]

Does artifacting happen anymore on AMD gfx cards? I remember reading that GDDR5 on AMD gfx cards had ECC, so it would continue to work just fine. However, since the data has to be re-transmitted, there's a hit on performance.

 

[zaydq]

Does artifacting happen anymore on AMD gfx cards? I remember reading that GDDR5 on AMD gfx cards had ECC, so it would continue to work just fine. However, since the data has to be re-transmitted, there's a hit on performance.

It does when overclocking, yes.

 

[Dankk]

sleeping dogs kinda looks like Grand theft auto to me...

Is it the same game play? this has been the reason i have not got it yet... I HATE GTA WITH A PASSION..

It's like GTA, but with an interesting storyline, interesting characters, fun quests, good combat, and... well... you see where I'm going with this.

 

[Arkadrel]

sounds more like a sort of crash/recovery than an artifacting scenario....

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^ this is my guess too.

This happening after logging maybe 20 hours in the game...

Cudoes hardcore to game more than 20hours in a row.

 

[zijin_cheng]

^ this is my guess too.




Cudoes hardcore to game more than 20hours in a row.

Na bro, Not 20 hours in a row, wordings a bit off, after logging total of 20 hours in game.

So would general consensus be that its not an artifact?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

Na bro, Not 20 hours in a row, wordings a bit off, after logging total of 20 hours in game.

So would general consensus be that its not an artifact?

It isn't an artifact, I suggest pushing your card just a little too far until you see them just so you know what they look like.

 

[Arkadrel]

Na bro, Not 20 hours in a row, wordings a bit off, after logging total of 20 hours in game.

So would general consensus be that its not an artifact?

Typically a artifact looks like this:

imagine a hammer hitting a peice of glass, where its hit there is a "star" and the lines point outwards from this star (impact point) to the outskirts of the screen in what look like triangles.

These "triangles" (that go from start point -> outter reach of screen) are usually mis-coloured so they stick out like a sore thumb, and are what people mean when they say artifacts. Another type, is when a texture is gone/missing or mis-coloured, or blinking (form say fine to miscoloured ect).


Intire screen blinking white, like you mentioned sounds alot more like window's reloading drivers or something. So its probably not your graphics card, the issue probably lays somewhere else.

It isn't an artifact, I suggest pushing your card just a little too far until you see them just so you know what they look like.

Lol what kinda advice is that

 

[taltamir]

I don't know if it was a glitch or artifacting

Artifacting is a "noticeable distortion"... by definition there is no single unified way in which it appears.
Any anomaly that you see in an image that is not how it SHOULD have looked is an artifact. Most artifacts are unique, like snowflakes. But sometimes certain repeatable artifacts can follow a specific pattern. For example compression artifacts are fairly repeatable.

Also, all artifacts ARE glitches by definition.

However, I would say an artifact requires that there be an image to have a distortion or defect in. Since you see no image at all I would say that this is not an artifact.

 

[Ferzerp]

Does artifacting happen anymore on AMD gfx cards? I remember reading that GDDR5 on AMD gfx cards had ECC, so it would continue to work just fine. However, since the data has to be re-transmitted, there's a hit on performance.

ECC is not the magic panacea that certain people think it is. You can correct minor errors, and that's it.