Technical Question (what is an "artifact")

[Mattlock]

I have heard the term used when discussing overclocking video cards....

What is an artifact?


thanks,

Mattlock

 

[Zeeliv]

I would imagine they can show up as just about anything wrong in what's displayed, but the most common thing I've seen when overclocking are discolored spots all over textures in games. Like in Q3 I saw blue and green spots on everything when my card was pushed just a bit too hard.

 

[Mattlock]

Thanks Zeeliv for the info.

Mattlock

 

[BFG10K]

An artifact is anything that's present in an image that's not supposed to be there.