Artefacts

dragon2309

dragon2309

P.I Dragon
Anybody help..... it just started randomly one day??

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i cant see any artifacts there, can you point them out for us? might be the monitor and not the videocard tho
 
Have you overclocked your videocard? Also check to make sure the fan on the card is still working and that the case is relatively cool.
 
well.. there are definately artifacs on that screenshot.
i mean.. since when gust is made out of (big) squares?

did you OC the card? because a xf5200 does not have RAM heatsinks.
 
hi all, been a while since i been on the forum, school has kinda taken over. Anyhoo, i have overclocked in the past but its been on stock for about 3 months now, so it shouldnt be that, case temp and graphics card temp are reasonable, maybe a short in the card somewhere??

And the green smudge, as you put it is the little icon for the terrorists bomb, NOT an artefact. Yeh, those big squares on the dirt road infront of me. They appear everywhere, on walls, on crates, not on people though, and they disappear when i go close to them, so im not sure whats happening, is it worth uninstallin and reinstallin steam/counterstrike??

dragon2309
 
i get things like that on css every so often only its just black where your checkers pattern would be. i usually just restart my comp and its fine. but im assuming you've done that already? how long has it been going on?
 
it does it every time i play, on every setting, even after a cold boot, and temps are low. Voltage on 12v is stable so is 5.5v, so tis not a power thing, it happens everytime, now, sometimes you get whole blocks of floor that are just coloured squares, sometimes its just like the side of 1 crate and thats it, but its always ther in some shape or form. Any ideas?
 
It happens because there is a damaged or missing file in the game folder, un-install counter strike and steam, then re-install, this should fix the problem. It happened to me before in HL2 with purple/black dots.

And the artifacts are the checkerboard like textures on the road.
 
It happens because there is a damaged or missing file in the game folder, un-install counter strike and steam, then re-install, this should fix the problem. It happened to me before in HL2 with purple/black dots.

And the artifacts are the checkerboard like textures on the road.
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Doh! good call :). Sounds like it could very possibly be.
 
you said the disapear when you get close to them?
maybe you should look in game and in the drive, and put anti aliasing and antistrophic filtering on 0.
thats the only reason i can think of atm.
 
Hmmm

I had a simmilar problem with Unreal Tournament. A full reinstall fixed that in my case.

JAN :D
 
Right, it seems that its the gfame files that are causing the prblems then, i shall reinstall tomorrow when i get the time and update you on what happens. Are you sure its not a hardware error in the gfx card then?? Cause its about time for an update and this could be the excuse i use to get extra funding from my parents, lol
 
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Right, it seems that its the gfame files that are causing the prblems then, i shall reinstall tomorrow when i get the time and update you on what happens. Are you sure its not a hardware error in the gfx card then?? Cause its about time for an update and this could be the excuse i use to get extra funding from my parents, lol
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reinstall the game, if it works, tell them it doesnt :P
 
I'd try re-installing drivers for your vid card, and re-installing the game if that doesn't work.

Sometimes, if i configure my graphics settings wrong...my games will have that effect until i fix them. I wouldn't call it "artifacts", as i think of white pixels on the screen when i hear that word. white pixels are from overheating generally, and can notify you of damaged/dying hardware. what you have on the screen looks more like a driver/display issue, not so much hardware malfunction.
 
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