Weird Black Vertical Lines in Battlefield 3 with 5850

[SoupyFlow]

I have been experiencing a weird issue in Battlefield 3 on my system where I am getting weird black vertical lines. They are only appearing in certain lighting effects throughout the game. This has been happening ONLY in BF3 and no other game. I have never seen this issue before in my many years of gaming.

I have tried different driver versions, and I am now running the latest 12.1 drivers. But even earlier versions gave me the same problem. I changed the video settings every whichaway in BF3 and they did not go away. I even changed the resolutions around as well. Also I know it's not my monitor causing the problem, because I tried two different monitors, and the lines show up in screenshots. I also got desperate and completely wiped my hard drive and did a clean windows install which did not fix the issue. I have also ran 3DMark Vantage and the issue did not appear.

Here are some screenshots of the issue: http://imgur.com/a/vy9z2

Here are my system specs:

-Q6600 OC'd @ 3.0 GHz
-Radeon 5850 1GB @ Stock Speeds
-ASUS P5KE Mobo
-4GB DDR2
-550W Corsair PSU
-WD Black 1TB 7200RPM

Anyone know what could be causing the issue? Thanks ahead of time!

 

[SoupyFlow]

Anyone have any idea what could be going on?

About an hour ago I removed all of my OCing on my q6600 and the problem was still there.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

your gpu is dying

 

[SoupyFlow]

your gpu is dying

Even if it's limited only to BF3? The issue does not show up in any other game, or benchmarks.

 

[Kenmitch]

Looks like the framing in the walls at first glance. Not sure what's causing it tho.

Have you double checked your power connectors and tried reseating the card yet?

Have you tried another cable for your monitor yet?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Looks like the framing in the walls at first glance. Not sure what's causing it tho.

Have you double checked your power connectors and tried reseating the card yet?

Have you tried another cable for your monitor yet?

Try this

 

[tulx]

your gpu is dying

I'm glad you thought this through...

On a more serious note - BF3 is probably the most GPU demanding game you play (I have two 5870's and they're almost stressed to 100%). It might be related to the PSU, loose cables or something which cause the lines when the GPU demands the most power.
I assume you have the latest drivers?

 

[SoupyFlow]

Looks like the framing in the walls at first glance. Not sure what's causing it tho.

Have you double checked your power connectors and tried reseating the card yet?

Have you tried another cable for your monitor yet?

I will try these fixes and see if it changes, thanks for the info.

 

[SoupyFlow]

I'm glad you thought this through...

On a more serious note - BF3 is probably the most GPU demanding game you play (I have two 5870's and they're almost stressed to 100%). It might be related to the PSU, loose cables or something which cause the lines when the GPU demands the most power.
I assume you have the latest drivers?

Yep, I am using the 12.1 drivers, but also the 11.x drivers did the same thing.