question about artifacting

Shane

Shane

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can a gfx card artifact if you have the setting way too high for your gfx card and it cant handle the game at those settings?

or only if its getting too hot?
 
I don't think it can do it if the settings are too high, it'd just lag, I'd say it was over-heating because you haven't OC'ed it have you?
 
hmm,

yes i have overclocked it before but not by much.

its back at stock speeds now.
 
Yes, if you have it set too high it can artifact. But also if you have it over clocked it will artifact.
 
Fritzjavel said:
What is artifact anyways?
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Lines, dots, anything out of the ordinary.

Stress on the video card causes artifacting, but certain things result in artifacting more than others. Overclocking too high and overheating being two. I've never personally experienced artifacting with the in-game setting too high, except of course, if the video card began to overheat, and this only happened in STALKER.
 
im thinking about buying Kornowskis X850 Pro AGP.

will this card work ok in my system with a 400W Psu.

i think my sempron may bottleneck it but i suppose it would be better than a 9600 pro lol.
 
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