Video Card Artifacting

2009-10-29 10:52:31

#1

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

Specs in sig, but the video card in question is an XFX 8800GT (XXX edition or some shit I believe) at manufacturer specs, stock cooler, bought about 22 months ago.

So the only game this has been a problem with is Company of Heroes, but that is the only game I have been playing recently for the most part. The first couple times it happened the temp was flirting with 80C, which I thought was fairly hot but not intensely so. I upped the default fan speed from 30% to 100% and got some additional temporary airflow on it, and it dropped to 65-70 C. The problem was still there, but less persistent. Recently the room has been a lot cooler and as a result the card hasn't been even getting close to 70C, but I am still having the problem. Two days ago the magnitude of the artifacting got significantly worse.

Description of the problem:

The textures in CoH will go to shit, the frame rate will drop, and the gui will turn all black. If I tab out and tab back in, it goes back to normal, but it will start again soon after. Shifting the camera view rapidly into the fog of war seems to trigger it somewhat reliably once I start having the problem, I assume there is additional load when doing this? Recently the artifacting has become worse, there are lots of bright triangles (sorry for the lack of technical explanation) and whatnot.

Do I need a new video card?

2009-10-29 10:57:08

#2

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Try cleaning out the fan of your graphics card. Often lots of dust gathers, reducing and even stopping the cooling effect.

Try to get a screenshot of the artifacts, if you can, might help.

80c isn't critical, but it is a bit high. I don't think your graphics card is dying, unless you ran it like this for a prolonged period of time.

If you clean out the fan and get the temperatures down, and it's still artifacting, time to send it back.

2009-10-29 11:03:00

#3

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6826|NYC / Hamburg

Back down on the GPU OC

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2009-10-29 11:39:04

#4

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|7002|Reality

my XFX 8600gt xxx just died. I had been hearing loud pops. After the foruth one the card died. 4 capacitors on the gpu pcb have exploded. as I understand it, there are a shit load of bad capacitors even on upper mid range cards. The caps that blew on mine are FZ78 (1500uF 6.3v) and FZ79 (1000uF 6.3v). 3 of the first type and 1 of the second. I got my card for Xmas 2007 (santa loves me). I bet you have a blown or about to be blown cap or caps on your board.

If you registered your card within 30 days, you can get them to replace the card. If not, *raises hand, you can replace these CHEAPass capacitors yourself.

Last edited by Stubbee (2009-10-29 11:57:43)

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2009-10-29 11:45:34

#5

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

Finray wrote:
Try cleaning out the fan of your graphics card. Often lots of dust gathers, reducing and even stopping the cooling effect.

Try to get a screenshot of the artifacts, if you can, might help.

80c isn't critical, but it is a bit high. I don't think your graphics card is dying, unless you ran it like this for a prolonged period of time.

If you clean out the fan and get the temperatures down, and it's still artifacting, time to send it back.

I cleaned out all the dust in my comp 3 months ago, and if you read the whole thing you would realize that the temps are down.

max wrote:
Back down on the GPU OC

How do I know what the OC is?

2009-10-29 11:49:14

#6

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6826|NYC / Hamburg

XFX 8800GT @ 670 MHz core clock

Stock clocks on the 8800GT is 600MHz Core / 1500 Mhz shader / 900MHz memory

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2009-10-29 12:00:43

#7

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

If caps are going bad it shouldn't make too much difference should it? If they're going to pop they're going to pop right?

<extreme speculation>
The only difference would be possibly if you lowered the voltage?
</extreme speculation>

2009-10-29 12:05:59

#8

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|6856|Seattle

Sandbags in BF2 look like water on my GPU. I think mine's dying as well.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2009-10-29 12:06:11

#9

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Finray wrote:
Try cleaning out the fan of your graphics card. Often lots of dust gathers, reducing and even stopping the cooling effect.

Try to get a screenshot of the artifacts, if you can, might help.

80c isn't critical, but it is a bit high. I don't think your graphics card is dying, unless you ran it like this for a prolonged period of time.

If you clean out the fan and get the temperatures down, and it's still artifacting, time to send it back.
I cleaned out all the dust in my comp 3 months ago, and if you read the whole thing you would realize that the temps are down.

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
So the only game this has been a problem with is Company of Heroes, but that is the only game I have been playing recently for the most part. The first couple times it happened the temp was flirting with 80C, which I thought was fairly hot but not intensely so. I upped the default fan speed from 30% to 100% and got some additional temporary airflow on it, and it dropped to 65-70 C. The problem was still there, but less persistent. Recently the room has been a lot cooler and as a result the card hasn't been even getting close to 70C, but I am still having the problem. Two days ago the magnitude of the artifacting got significantly worse.

I fail to see where you said anything about cleaning out dust.

Ask for help, don't supply enough information, shoot down a suggestion in, quite frankly, a snidy manner, but it's okay since you have the little badge that says moderator.

Go fuck yourself next time you want ask for anything, I won't be helping you.

2009-10-29 12:23:20

#10

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Recently the room has been a lot cooler and as a result the card hasn't been even getting close to 70C, but I am still having the problem.

2009-10-29 12:27:30

#11

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Finray wrote:
I fail to see where you said anything about cleaning out dust.

2009-10-29 12:31:16

#12

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

You clean out dust to make the temps drop. The temps are now down as I said. Dust is not a problem.

2009-10-29 12:33:17

#13

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Whatever, being snidey to someone only trying to help is no way to act, regardless if you're a mod or not.

And for your information I did read your post in it's entirety, and put a bit of thought in my reply, to try to help you.

2009-10-29 15:44:16

#14

The_Sniper_NM: Official EVGA Fanboy; +94|6372|SC | USA |

There are other things that need cooling on the card besides the gpu lmao.

Cleaning out the card will also make sure the vram and pwm has adequate cooling.

2009-10-29 16:05:12

#15

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

The cooler covers the entire card, the fan is shoving air around the entire card including the RAM. I learned that the hard way with my shitty, shitty stock cooler on my 6800GT.

It is pretty clear my caps are beginning to give up the ghost haha. The question now is whether or not it is worth it to try to pull and save the card, buy a new card, or limp along with this one.

2009-10-29 16:09:52

#16

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|6975

have you tried switching to a previous driver version?
uninstalling your current driver and using driver cleaner
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=driversweeper
then try an older nvidia driver?

Love is the answer

2009-10-29 16:13:06

#17

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

Hrmmmm actually this only started happening after a format, so it might be a new driver version from what I had before...I am probably going to switch to 7 this weekend or next, so I will probably try the driver before that when I install. I'll post back to say if it worked.

2010-02-17 21:02:50

#18

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|7002|Reality

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Hrmmmm actually this only started happening after a format, so it might be a new driver version from what I had before...I am probably going to switch to 7 this weekend or next, so I will probably try the driver before that when I install. I'll post back to say if it worked.

AND?

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2010-02-17 21:25:47

#19

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

I think it artifacted once on Win 7. Otherwise it seems to be okay...

2010-02-17 21:40:46

#20

Blade4509: Wrench turnin' fool; +202|5768|America

Get a new card and save yourself the hassle. GTX260 go.

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2010-02-17 22:03:18

#21

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6966|67.222.138.85

plz mail me a money tree from the sky

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