- Jun 18, 2014
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Hi guys, I've been trying to solve this issue for months, and I'm at wit's end. Long story short, I've replaced a lot of stuff in my rig (some of which I wanted to upgrade anyhow) and am still getting something that looks a lot like z-fighting in almost all games I play.
Chunks of wall or floor will flicker if viewed at certain angles and it's always the same objects. Some textures like decals (burn marks/blood, etc) will also flicker and chunks of them will vanish. Light sources seem to make certain walls shimmer. Some texture details seem to take extremely long to load (texture 'pops-in' when first loading things, such as a new map or a character that just spawned). These definitely are not the usual GPU dying artifacts and they do not happen ever outside of newer/more demanding games.
My setup:
CPU- AMD FX 6350 @4.3 oc w/ Cooler Master Vortex
GPU- Formerly MSI HD7790 factory OC @2g, then XFX DD Edition R9 270x @2g, now MSI Twin Frozr GTX 760 (2gig version)
RAM- Corsair XMS 1600mhz 2x4g DDR3 (has been RMA'd)
PSU- Some cheap 750w Coolmax (I'm so sorry, never again), now Antec TruePower Classic 750w
Mobo- Formerly MSI 970A-G46, now Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0
Drive- Samsung 150g SSD, 840 PRO
Power strip and DVI cables for both my monitors have been replaced.
As you can see, the only two things that are still there are the SSD and the CPU. The CPU has passed 15 hours of Prime95 at this modest OC, and removing the OC to stock did not change the flickers. The newest GPU has passed 3DMark11 with no artifacts and OCCT with no errors. The new RAM has passed Memtest86 for 8 hours. For my SSD Samsung Magician shows no errors and my disk health being at 'Good'. The motherboard as been replaced (I was having issues with the MSI board's USB slots anyways, and I wanted a better OC board).
I thought this might be a software issue since this does not effect anything but more graphically demanding games (Heroes of the Storm and older games like Baldur's Gate do not have any issues). I removed all drivers with DDU and tried with several different driver versions, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 with the refresh option, and I've used Nvidia inspector to manually tweak AA, AO, AF, and LOD. Nothing helped.
I tried running the games at a lower resolution with lower settings on my smaller (1440x900) second monitor, no dice.
I've used MSI Afterburner to manually lower to clocks, but the flickering still occurs. Temps are good on both GPU and CPU (GPU sits at 57c under full load).
The only thing I show as abnormal is this GPU is a 2g card, but both Nvidia Inspector and CPU Z are showing it at 3004 MHz clock. Is this normal?
http://i.imgur.com/u1W8O0L.png
Does anyone have any idea at all what could be causing this? It's very depressing to have sunk so much money into a machine to play games decently to be haunted with these very distracting flickers no matter what I replace. It doesn't seem to matter if I go with Radeon or Nvidia.
Would taking my system to a professional at this point be my best shot before wasting even more green on it?
Sorry it's all from the same game, but I tend to not have more than 1-2 games installed at a time (since otherwise I would never beat anything). Rest assured that in Skyrim I get the flashing mountains and distant objects and they're in SMITE as well on ground decals.
Examples: http://youtu.be/3W0_Us9s4pY
Thank you so much anyone who took the time to read this!
Chunks of wall or floor will flicker if viewed at certain angles and it's always the same objects. Some textures like decals (burn marks/blood, etc) will also flicker and chunks of them will vanish. Light sources seem to make certain walls shimmer. Some texture details seem to take extremely long to load (texture 'pops-in' when first loading things, such as a new map or a character that just spawned). These definitely are not the usual GPU dying artifacts and they do not happen ever outside of newer/more demanding games.
My setup:
CPU- AMD FX 6350 @4.3 oc w/ Cooler Master Vortex
GPU- Formerly MSI HD7790 factory OC @2g, then XFX DD Edition R9 270x @2g, now MSI Twin Frozr GTX 760 (2gig version)
RAM- Corsair XMS 1600mhz 2x4g DDR3 (has been RMA'd)
PSU- Some cheap 750w Coolmax (I'm so sorry, never again), now Antec TruePower Classic 750w
Mobo- Formerly MSI 970A-G46, now Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0
Drive- Samsung 150g SSD, 840 PRO
Power strip and DVI cables for both my monitors have been replaced.
As you can see, the only two things that are still there are the SSD and the CPU. The CPU has passed 15 hours of Prime95 at this modest OC, and removing the OC to stock did not change the flickers. The newest GPU has passed 3DMark11 with no artifacts and OCCT with no errors. The new RAM has passed Memtest86 for 8 hours. For my SSD Samsung Magician shows no errors and my disk health being at 'Good'. The motherboard as been replaced (I was having issues with the MSI board's USB slots anyways, and I wanted a better OC board).
I thought this might be a software issue since this does not effect anything but more graphically demanding games (Heroes of the Storm and older games like Baldur's Gate do not have any issues). I removed all drivers with DDU and tried with several different driver versions, I reinstalled Windows 8.1 with the refresh option, and I've used Nvidia inspector to manually tweak AA, AO, AF, and LOD. Nothing helped.
I tried running the games at a lower resolution with lower settings on my smaller (1440x900) second monitor, no dice.
I've used MSI Afterburner to manually lower to clocks, but the flickering still occurs. Temps are good on both GPU and CPU (GPU sits at 57c under full load).
The only thing I show as abnormal is this GPU is a 2g card, but both Nvidia Inspector and CPU Z are showing it at 3004 MHz clock. Is this normal?
http://i.imgur.com/u1W8O0L.png
Does anyone have any idea at all what could be causing this? It's very depressing to have sunk so much money into a machine to play games decently to be haunted with these very distracting flickers no matter what I replace. It doesn't seem to matter if I go with Radeon or Nvidia.
Would taking my system to a professional at this point be my best shot before wasting even more green on it?
Sorry it's all from the same game, but I tend to not have more than 1-2 games installed at a time (since otherwise I would never beat anything). Rest assured that in Skyrim I get the flashing mountains and distant objects and they're in SMITE as well on ground decals.
Examples: http://youtu.be/3W0_Us9s4pY
Thank you so much anyone who took the time to read this!
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