I recently put together a new gaming PC with my tax return, but I'm having some pretty serious issues with it. Every time I start a game through Steam, the graphics glitch and the whole thing seems to hiccup for a moment before everything settles and the game runs as normal.
In the best-case scenario, after that first trip it's fine, but sometimes the game will freeze during the opening cutscene or a few minutes into play. Usually I have to get into the task manager to fix it. Glitches include little squares of randomly-colored (usually pink, green, or grey) pixels all over the screen and a split image. The card is a PowerColor AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, and the system is running on Windows 8 which might be a problem because I remember hearing that Steam doesn't support Windows 8 but it's worth mentioning that the same thing happens, and more frequently, when I boot with the Linux Mint partition. In windows, I sometimes get a pop-up that tells me that the graphics driver has stopped, but recovered quickly, although that doesn't seem to make a difference in whether or not the game crashes.
The only other thing I can think of is that I may have installed the motherboard drivers wrong. It didn't ship with Win8 drivers and figuring out which ones to get from the manufacturer's site was a pain. The board is an ASRock z68 Pro3 Gen3 LGA1155 with an i5-3470 processor.
Any ideas? :C
In the best-case scenario, after that first trip it's fine, but sometimes the game will freeze during the opening cutscene or a few minutes into play. Usually I have to get into the task manager to fix it. Glitches include little squares of randomly-colored (usually pink, green, or grey) pixels all over the screen and a split image. The card is a PowerColor AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB, and the system is running on Windows 8 which might be a problem because I remember hearing that Steam doesn't support Windows 8 but it's worth mentioning that the same thing happens, and more frequently, when I boot with the Linux Mint partition. In windows, I sometimes get a pop-up that tells me that the graphics driver has stopped, but recovered quickly, although that doesn't seem to make a difference in whether or not the game crashes.
The only other thing I can think of is that I may have installed the motherboard drivers wrong. It didn't ship with Win8 drivers and figuring out which ones to get from the manufacturer's site was a pain. The board is an ASRock z68 Pro3 Gen3 LGA1155 with an i5-3470 processor.
Any ideas? :C
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