Is there something wrong with my card?

BradleyKZN · Jul 22, 2009

In Crysis I see strange artifacting. Like a blanket of black is being stretched across part of the screen. Sometimes its there and sometimes not. This doesnt happen with any other games or benches. Do I need to RMA?

p_o_s_pc · Jul 22, 2009

are you overclocked? how are your temps? What drivers are you using? Does it do it when SLI is disabled? Can you run Furmark without instability or overheating?
sorry for all the questions just need some info to try and help

BradleyKZN · Jul 22, 2009

Nothing is overclocked, my temps seem fine,Drivers 185 something, I havent even thought to try it with SLi disabled I never thought to try Furmark even

what would it mean if its fine without sli disabled?

eidairaman1 · Jul 22, 2009

sounds like the ram of the video card.

r9 · Jul 22, 2009

eidairaman1 said:
sounds like the ram of the video card.

+1
What you are seeing are parts of frames not being rendered - blank know as artifacting.

BradleyKZN · Jul 22, 2009

This is precisely whats worrying me!
Edit: But why is this not happening in anything else?
(Nice OC on your E5200 r9)

ShadowFold · Jul 22, 2009

Download and run furmark. If it artifacts, clear drivers(or reinstall windows, which I recommend) and do a fresh driver install. If it still artifacts after using multiple different drivers, you'll need to RMA it. I've gotten artifacting before because of driver crap before, so it might not be dead!

BradleyKZN · Jul 22, 2009

Please give me a link for Furmark

If I do RMA the card, do you think I will be able to change it for a GTX 275 or something?

ShadowFold · Jul 22, 2009

Gigabyte RMA is total shit, I doubt it. Google furmark, I don't have it bookmarked or anything..

BradleyKZN · Jul 22, 2009

LoL why do you say its sh*t?

ShadowFold · Jul 22, 2009

Because they took two weeks to respond to me with a generic "Do you know what you're doing?" message. Took almost a month to get an rma number and then they took another month to get it back to me. By that time I already had a crappy low end foxconn board that I hated. But at least it worked.

eidairaman1 · Jul 22, 2009

r9 said:
+1
What you are seeing are parts of frames not being rendered - blank know as artifacting.

It's usually the ram of the video card that starts to go bad, either being too high on clocks or the ram is of poorer quality, or even the combination of the two. Most have lowered their RAM clocks and the artifacts go away; now if that doesn't help then there is a possibility the GPU is even bad. All I can say is try to lower the clock speeds, check your temperatures and hope for the best. Worst comes to worst, check your warranty for the card. Warranty usually means not paying for it to be repaired/replaced. If it's out of warranty you still can send it in but you pay for it.

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

So this is what happened last night

Crysis

Driver 185.**
1680x1050 8xAA 16XAF Crashed with full screen artifacts

Driver 182.**
Didnt crash on bench but seems like it ran too fast, slight artifacting at water

Crysis Warhead

185.**
1680X1050 8xAA 16XAF artifacting badly

182.**
1680X1050 8XAA 16XAF artifacting badly

Furmark

185.**
Stability test - Instant artifacting full screen with post processing effects enabled but fine without

182.**
Stability test - Instant artifacting full screen with post processing effects enabled but fine without

*Both times a second stability run would work fine even with post processing enabled

Where I said Crysis seemed like it was running too fast, at high, on the settings above, its average during game play was probably around 45 FPS which is far too high. Warheads average was probably 20 on the same settings.

Crysis Ran fine with sli disabled but crashed the same with Furmark

So what do you guys think?

Cuzza · Jul 23, 2009

Does this happen in the same part of the game? If so these sort of things are sometimes fixed by updating the latest game patch.

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

eidairaman1 said:
It's usually the ram of the video card that starts to go bad, either being too high on clocks or the ram is of poorer quality, or even the combination of the two. Most have lowered their RAM clocks and the artifacts go away; now if that doesn't help then there is a possibility the GPU is even bad. All I can say is try to lower the clock speeds, check your temperatures and hope for the best. Worst comes to worst, check your warranty for the card. Warranty usually means not paying for it to be repaired/replaced. If it's out of warranty you still can send it in but you pay for it.

Well im certainly not going to underclock my card, I want what I paid for.
Luckily its still got more than two years left

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

Cuzza said:
Does this happen in the same part of the game? If so these sort of things are sometimes fixed by updating the latest game patch.

On warhead it seems to be in the same place but I didnt really look around to much as I was worried its getting damaged. In Crysis however, the artifacting appears all over the place, and even caused my PC to freeze with yellow and blue rectangular blocks completely covering the screen!

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

Bump!

InTeL-iNsIdE · Jul 23, 2009

Have you got the game patched ? I have had similar artifacts in the past when I first installed it which went away after i downloaded and installed all the latest patches.

Mussels · Jul 23, 2009

it could be a driver problem, it could be a game problem (needing patch, as said above) it could be a card OC'd too far, it could be a power issue, it could be overheating. It could also be a system overclock feeding bad data to the card, resulting in video corruption.

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

No I havent but what about Furmark crashing?
Also, when Crysis crashed, I had to restart my PC as I couldnt Alt-Tab out of it or anything

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

Mussels said:
it could be a driver problem, it could be a game problem (needing patch, as said above) it could be a card OC'd too far, it could be a power issue, it could be overheating. It could also be a system overclock feeding bad data to the card, resulting in video corruption.

I changed drivers and got the same thing, maybe patch but doesnt explain Furmarks problem, card is stock, and system is as well. Its not heat. It does the same thing with fan speed on full.

Mussels · Jul 23, 2009

BradleyKZN said:
I changed drivers and got the same thing, maybe patch but doesnt explain Furmarks problem, card is stock, and system is as well. Its not heat. It does the same thing with fan speed on full.

fan on full means nothing if thermal paste is bad, or its memory/VRM's overheating.

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

Ok i see what your saying, but on Furmark, it doesnt have time to heat up, because it artifacts full screen the second I click on GO!

Mussels · Jul 23, 2009

BradleyKZN said:
Ok i see what your saying, but on Furmark, it doesnt have time to heat up, because it artifacts full screen the second I click on GO!

furmark would heat it up instantly. its that kind of program.

BradleyKZN · Jul 23, 2009

Even without Xtreme burn option selected? And if this is the case, would it be overheating?

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