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What's causing this graphic glitch in CP2077?

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Chry

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System in specs here. Playing with mostly ultra settings @ 1440p. RT off. FSR off.
 
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Are you overclocking your GPU? These types of artifacts are a pretty common indicator that a GPU OC profile is beyond the silicon's capability.

A few years ago I overclocked my RTX 2070 Super FE card following an article published by The FPS Review and everything worked okay as I benchmarked using Unigine Heaven 4.0. When I switched to Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got a similar spike growing from Lara Croft's forehead. So I backed down the OC levels until the spike disappeared. What was originally about a +7% OC profile ended up being a +4% OC to get the artifacting to stop on SotTR.

That's when I gave up OC-ing graphics cards. A 4% increase in frames isn't really noticeable in gameplay. It's basically a massive time sink.

Today's silicon has the overclocking margins built into the boost clock. Gone are the days when OC-ing a CPU or GPU gives fruitful real world noticeable gains. The most useful modification these days is undervolting for better performance-per-watt.
 
cvaldes said:
Are you overclocking your GPU? These types of artifacts are a pretty common indicator that a GPU OC profile is beyond the silicon's capability.

A few years ago I overclocked my RTX 2070 Super FE card following an article published by The FPS Review and everything worked okay as I benchmarked using Unigine Heaven 4.0. When I switched to Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got a similar spike growing from Lara Croft's forehead. So I backed down the OC levels until the spike disappeared. What was originally about a +7% OC profile ended up being a +4% OC to get the artifacting to stop on SotTR.

That's when I gave up OC-ing graphics cards. A 4% increase in frames isn't really noticeable in gameplay. It's basically a massive time sink.

Today's silicon has the overclocking margins built into the boost clock. Gone are the days when OC-ing a CPU or GPU gives fruitful real world noticeable gains. The most useful modification these days is undervolting for better performance-per-watt.
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You're such a bore if you think overclocking is gone. Can still push current chips further than right out the factory more than 4%. Even a 2070S can power limit and clock limit increase unless you follow some guide that clearly didn't work.
 
I get exactly those types of visual glitches from OCing GPU VRAM, especially my 1050 Ti. You push that card's VRAM higher than +160MHz and you start to see funny business like that in every game. Bring it back down from +175 to +160, reload game and everything looks perfect again.
 
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Install HW64 (Hardware 64) and monitor your cards temps and see how hot the vram is getting. Also, make sure that you have the zero fan option turned off.
 
I actually run the game underclocked. I experimented with voltages and clocks and it still happens sometimes no matter what I set it to. Even on low temps.

Here's a new glitch. My character's head suddenly, for no reason, turned to this:
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When I see it, it's a too-high OC on the memory thing instead of a temp thing. However I've had my 3DMark (of all the damn things) go bad on 2 different PCs where Firestrike will just crash out on the 2nd graphic test, no matter what the settings. Delete 3DMark and re-download and it works again. You may need a reinstall but hopefully not.
 
Do you have any mods installed in the game? If so, try running without them and see if it fixes the issue. You may also want to do what Lew suggested and try to reinstall the game. Also, is cyberpunk the only game to have this texture issue?

FYI....In the pic, all of the textures have the same orange and blue speckle's in the same pattern.
 
It seems to me that my graphics card is fatigued. While the game is playing I'm getting artifacts if I go to the browser (only happened now for the first time). They come and go as I type even now.
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So it seems sadly that my card is somewhat defected? :(
I would love to try lowering VRAM frequency but Radeon tool doesn't allow it (only allows OCing it (didn't try it though)).

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2000mhz is the minimum and default. Can't go lower.
Wonder if it would even help.

Another thing - if I don't undervolt+underclock, hotspot temps reach up to 95C while playing Cyberpunk.
But glitches happen even with undervolt+underclock with 70C hotspot.
 
You should be able to type a lower number directly into the box next to the slider.
 
68Olds said:
You should be able to type a lower number directly into the box next to the slider.
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Automatically changes to 2000 when i move cursor away from there. 2000 is the minimum.
 
Chry said:
I actually run the game underclocked. I experimented with voltages and clocks and it still happens sometimes no matter what I set it to. Even on low temps.

Here's a new glitch. My character's head suddenly, for no reason, turned to this:
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Heyo curious to see if you have found a solution for this bug? I am experiencing the same issue
 
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Heyo curious to see if you have found a solution for this bug? I am experiencing the same issue
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Hi, nah, just learned to live with all these glitches. Doesnt bother me
much.
As for the black skin glitch specifically - it fixed on its own when restarting the game.
 
So do I just print out the screenshots and put them in the box? :D
The way it works in my country is you bring the item to a service depot that acts as a medium between client and many manufacturer companies. The medium company then brings it to the manufacturer to check. Never heard of this process including screenshots. The manufacturers test the units themselves and then decide. What if they don't find anything wrong? Not sure if they test these cards on high load (for vram specifically) to find these problems.
 
Chry said:
How to prove it?
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As toothless said rma it, you paid good money, you deserve their after sales services, also you have the proof. Go to consumer court or alternative if they dont. Moreover, also take ixi's advice.

Chry said:
So do I just print out the screenshots and put them in the box? :D
The way it works in my country is you bring the item to a service depot that acts as a medium between client and many manufacturer companies. The medium company then brings it to the manufacturer to check. Never heard of this process including screenshots. The manufacturers test the units themselves and then decide. What if they don't find anything wrong? Not sure if they test these cards on high load (for vram specifically) to find these problems.
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You could contact MSI directly through their website or go to their authorised service center. Provide the pictures in your phone or take someones laptop or allow them to test for themselves.

Take a pirated copy of CP2077 (loose file) on an ext. HDD (if you bought the steam version), make them play there.
 
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8tyone said:
As toothless said rma it, you paid good money, you deserve their after sales services, also you have the proof. Go to consumer court or alternative if they dont. Moreover, also take ixi's advice.


You could contact MSI directly through their website or go to their authorised service center. Provide the pictures in your phone or take someones laptop or allow them to test for themselves.

Take a pirated copy of CP2077 (loose file) on an ext. HDD (if you bought the steam version), make them play there.
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Fyi. Anything in relation to pirating is against forum rules. The screenshots (or video, which would be better) would be evidence enough for an RMA.
 
8tyone said:
Take a pirated copy of CP2077 (loose file) on an ext. HDD (if you bought the steam version), make them play there.
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Not sure I would do that lol

Does look like vram issue and if it's not stable at stock settings then the OP should definitely RMA it, it may take a while due to the process in his country though I would get a cheap old pcie GPU to tide me over if I didn't already have a backup, I have a HD 3650 or something similar lying around that I never got rid of just "in case" of something like this and I am without a GPU
 
This seems to be related to AMD drivers. It happens to me on a Vega64 XTX. I at first thought it was OC instability but.. does the same thing bone stock.

It'll run furmark just fine, F@H just fine even.
 
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