Melan 1809 Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 I am sure I have asked this question before (and I think you guys fixed it once), but I can't recall the answer, so here it goes again. I can't show the screenshots because they don't get captured... But when I am playing TDM, I get strange green flickering on vertical planes that seem to correspond to visportal surfaces. The flickers look like oversized pixels, sort of rectangular-like. I have got an ATI Radeon HD 480, and have disabled Catalyst A.I. Quote Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved Link to post Share on other sites
Melan 1809 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Any ideas? By accident, I could get a screenshot of the problem: It doesn't look like a VP problem actually, since there was no VP over there when I took the screenshot. Quote Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved Link to post Share on other sites
Tels 278 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Looks like memory corruption on your graphic card to me. Or overheating? Quote "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) "Remember: If the game lets you do it, it's not cheating." -- Xarax Link to post Share on other sites
Mortem Desino 66 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Tels may be right. Those look like the artifacts of a dying (or straining) graphics card. Quote yay seuss crease touss dome in ouss nose tair Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2159 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 If that is the Laptop you were testing v1.03 with, perhaps a cooling-pad underneath would help... Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Springheel 4645 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Yes, I've seen artefacts like that with overheating (though mine were red). I underclocked my video card and it went away. Quote TDM Missions: A Score to Settle * A Reputation to Uphold * A New Job * A Matter of Hours Video Series: Springheel's Modules * Speedbuild Challenge * New Mappers Workshop * Building Traps Link to post Share on other sites
Melan 1809 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hm, it is not a particularly old card - two or three years or thereabouts. Is there a way to tell if it is overheating or dying? Quote Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved Link to post Share on other sites
nbohr1more 2159 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 I think the Furmark benchmark is a pretty good way to tell if your artifacting in general and thus have hardware issues. I would get some canned-air and dust out the GPU fan (and other case fans too)... Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to post Share on other sites
Bikerdude 3741 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Melan - try underclocking the card, if the card is overheating then underclocking may temporarily fix that issue. And on that subject what card do you have, and as other havs said that is either w failing card or a corrupt gfx driver.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Melan 1809 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 I've got an ATI Radeon HD 4800. I will try those suggestions tomorrow; thanks! Quote Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved Link to post Share on other sites
Mortem Desino 66 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Something similar happened to my Radeon HD 4850 when I overclocked, but used the wrong memory clock speed. Instead, I just let Catalyst rev my GPU up and down as necessary. Quote yay seuss crease touss dome in ouss nose tair Link to post Share on other sites
Baddcog 114 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 My 5750 is a 'black edition', factory OC. I underclocked it to regular speed and it was performing much better. Quote Dark is the sway that mows like a harvest Link to post Share on other sites
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