Artifacts in Game

[Pooky]

Hi

I was playing Splinter Cell: Blacklist and suddenly started getting weird geometric shapes on the screen flashing about, I pressed esc and the menu was full of random flashing colours and stuff.

Is this a sign of something wrong with my GPU? Is there a way to test it? It's a Gigabyte 660 and it's still under warranty.

 

[cerebus]

I wouldn't bother testing just take it back to where you bought it.

 

[Pooky]

I wouldn't bother testing just take it back to where you bought it.

Couldn't it be the game though?

 

[The_Ogre]

Couldn't it be the game though?

Its very unlikely to be the game. Games go through quite a bit of QA before its released.

 

[Pooky]

Its very unlikely to be the game. Games go through quite a bit of QA before its released.

I just booted it up again and played for a bit and had no problem. My temps are around 68C which is pretty normal for load I think. Strange occurrence.

 

[Jabberwocky]

I just booted it up again and played for a bit and had no problem. My temps are around 68C which is pretty normal for load I think. Strange occurrence.

Rather take the card back

 

[NomNom]

Take the card back, or run a GPU benchmark to confirm it's the card, but 99% of the time when you see artifacts in a game it's the card, the 1% could be the game.

 

[Rickster]

Do you have update 1.02 or later?

Ps What driver version are you running?

 

[Pooky]

Do you have update 1.02 or later?

Ps What driver version are you running?

It's the Steam install, so I assume it downloaded the update when it first downloaded the game a few days ago.
I just downloaded the latest NVIDIA drivers.

I have played for about 1.5 hours today and it has not occurred again.

 

[cerebus]

Run furmark or MSI Kombustor stress test on it for half an hour. If no problems the card should be fine.I'm running it now and getting 52c on my card.

 

[cAfstA]

I could be wrong but I think it's the latest drivers. I earlier in the week installed vs327 which caused my display to freeze at times, display weird cursors and what not. Uninstalled it and everything back to normal. I recall that there was mention from vs320 that the drivers have been wonky.

 

[HavocXphere]

Artifacts are a sign of an overheating / failing card. Specifically green artifacts.

 

[DTBA]

Also had a problem with artifacts in some games, updated drivers and it stoped