Graphics Artifacts Problem

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Bainek24

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I am getting graphical artifacts in my 3D games: triangle shapes flashes around the screen. I've checked Withcher 3 and Fallout 4, both games have them.

I played Batman Arkham Knight, Witcher 3, and Fallout 4 last year for hundreds of hours with no problems. I took some time off and wanted to get back into Fallout 4 and Witcher 3 for the new DLC and the problems started. I did not update any drivers in the mean time.

Since the problems, I have reinstalled both Fallout 4 and Witcher 3, and completely cleaned and reinstalled new Nvidia drivers and still the problem persists. I got a temperature monitor and GPU temps are mid to high 60s.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

My system:

Windows 8.1
Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO LGA 1150 Intel Z97
i7-4790k (only over clocked with XMP. Problems persist with XMP on or off)
Noctua NH-U12 CPU cooler
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series (2 x 8GB)
Asus Strix GTX 970 4gb
Corsair Professional Series AX760i 760 watt PSU
 
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Try with MSI Afterburner... One of the easiest tool. Of course, it's going to give you less performance, but I guess there is a chance that the card becomes unstable with those clocks, so maybe underclocking a little bit would help.

If it doesn't fix the problem, test the card in another system. If it displays the same thing, well, then, it's a bad card.
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Usually, the best way to start with is, you should ask yourself "What have I done before the problem happens"? This will usually fix the problem.

I don't normally find these artifacts to be solvable, to be honest. Usually, it's just a bad card. But don't give up just yet, you can try underclocking the memory or the core of the GPU. Or I guess, try rolling back drivers to older versions.
 
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Bainek24

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Unfortunately, I did nothing to my computer since last year and starting up Fallout 4 yesterday. No new drivers, no new components, nothing. Things just went from being OK to having a problem. I initially assumed it was an isolated problem with Fallout 4 due to new patches so I followed the normal steps. When that didn't solve the problem I checked other games and saw the same thing.

Anyways...not being a graphics card master such as yourself...how do I go about underclocking the GPU memory? Can you recommend a utility?
 
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Try with MSI Afterburner... One of the easiest tool. Of course, it's going to give you less performance, but I guess there is a chance that the card becomes unstable with those clocks, so maybe underclocking a little bit would help.

If it doesn't fix the problem, test the card in another system. If it displays the same thing, well, then, it's a bad card.
 
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this should fix it. however keep in mind, the performance loss is not going to be something to ruin your experience, its very small.
 
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