Does anyone else experience this? is it at all normal?

I've always noticed that when playing games such as crysis/farcry 2, there will be certain textures (typically metallic like objects such as the locker-like things in crysis wars' bunkers) where ill see lots of parallel lines in the texture...Like everything is colored what seems correctly, but the those textures in particular will have vertical/horizontal lines, evenly spaced across them. I noticed the way this happens varies a bit based on which driver i tried, but none i've tried seemed to clear up the issue all together....any ideas? do others experience this?

 

Well since your card is oced, might be artifacts? Did you notice anything in other games?

PS. How do you get 3+ hours of battery life? (Pm if you don't want thread derailed)

 

probably will post a guide on that... it really doesn't seem very....artifacty though. Like sometimes adding some antialiasing makes it go away (for some textures).... it also only seems to happen (sometimes) for objects that would be made of some sort of steel/sheet metal (IRL) And would using different drivers really change the way this occurs if it were *artifacts*? i'm pretty sure i've noticed this since day 1, but after upgrading drivers for more performance I noticed it more drastically.

 

ok sorry for the big picture but here is an example....so odd...only very particular things like these *sometimes* have this. It has also been confirmed that the stock clocks do not alleviate the problem.

 

I thought I replied to this last night.... freaking 404's .

Its probably:
- drivers
- or artifacts from overheating.... hopefully you are monitoring the temps.

and overheating does not just happen to the GPU, it will happen to the videomemory... which cannot be monitored for heat. So don't push video memory overclock too high.

 

yeah the 404's are killin me. definitely no overheating in the core which is usually around 76C on full load....the memory i've only ever brought up a slight overclock (50mhz) and that was only recently. I just tried stock clocks but experienced the same deal. I have been suspect to the drivers, which do vary this effect slightly, but i'm not finding a driver that solves the problem entirely.

sometimes one driver gives me verticle lines, others horizontal, others crosshatched partially and then diagonal...very very odd. have you any suggestions on drivers? (i've gone through a number on laptopvideo and am currently using the new nvidia released 185.85)

'preciate the input!

 

like I said, if you OC he video memory too far, that will cause those artifacts (I know ).

the videomemory has no temp sensors, so you wont know if its overheating until such artifacts appear.

So downclock the video memory speeds back to stock to see if that helps.

 

i'm trying all sorts of things at this point, lowering the clocks, new different drivers...what the hey.

 

no luck at all. in fact, some of the newer drivers would cause the game screen to turn black after a short while and i'd get an error that the driver stopped responding. lol

 

before you installed the new driver.... did you fully uninstall and remove the previous driver?

because what you are describing is what happens to someone that just install another driver over the previous one without removing the previous driver first.

 

yeah uninstalled driver + deleted driver software, went into safe mode, used CCleaner to clean up the old registry entries and whatnot, then installed new drivers clean. This is kinda mind-boggling. At least i plan on upgrading to s 280 when i get the funds

 

install the stock drivers from Clevo (through Sager or Pro-Star site) and see if its better or not.

 

good idea but it didn't fix it and they were terribly jumpy drivers lol