Artifacts on Windows 8 and only on Windows 8 (GTX 550 Ti)

sentientceph

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Oct 27, 2013
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Hello everyone,

For some odd reason, my graphics card (an EVGA GTX 550 Ti) artifacts like crazy anywhere on Windows 8, to the point where there are mouse trails everywhere and everything becomes unreadable.

I am on the current v.320.49 stable driver, and I have dried both BETA and older versions of drivers and the still the same problem occurs. This problem ONLY happens in Windows 8, as there is no problem at all in Windows 7 or lower.

Does anyone have any clue on what is going on or how I may resolve this?

Also, I have tried swapping the GTX 550 Ti with an older Radeon HD 5570 and the Windows 8 booted perfectly with no artifacts at all.